Working on a oscilloscope review

You know how it can be sometimes. You’re working on one project, then it gets bumped by another. Sometimes that one gets bumped by a higher priority one. Your life is like a nested interrupt handler.

My latest project is moving my MSP430-based NFC reader over to the CC1310. It’s been competing with converting a garage into the noisy, smelly power tools and CNC side of my workshop setup.

img_20180603_112827638539278.jpgI’m very pleased to tell you than something more urgent had come up that has stalled these two. Rohde & Schwarz have asked me (via Element14) to road test one of their latest oscilloscopes – the incredible RTM3004. Even better, I get to keep it afterwards. This is a high end 1GHz 4 channel ‘scope with a 16 channel logic analyser, signal and pattern generator, spectrum analyser and loads of other features.

As you can imagine I feel obliged to put a reasonable amount of effort into this, although to do it in a fair and unbiased way. I’ve already started but I expect to spend at least another month of my free time on it. Stay tuned for the results which will appear on full over on Element14 but have a summary and link here too.

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