Information & Product Buying Guide for the Oscilloscope

The Digital Sampling Ocilloscope

Digital sampling oscilloscopes, not to be confused with digital storage oscilloscope, use the equivalent-time sampling method to capture and display samples of a signal.

Sampling oscilloscopes can measure signals up to an order of magnitude faster than real-time oscilloscopes (all the rest). As such, these scopes are ideal tools for capturing and characterizing computer, datacom and telecom signals. Sampling oscilloscopes can capture signals up to 40 Gb/s.