Live Seminar - Using Math and Measurements on Scope Signals

Who should attend

Any regular user of any brand of oscilloscope will learn at this event. The tips and techniques taught will help you solve problems faster, more accurately and with better certainty.

What will be covered

Measurements using a scope

• Understanding what your scope (any brand) can measure, how the measurement works and when to use it. Statistics on Parameters and when to use them.
• Accuracy and certainty - measurement set-up
• Custom math functions - combining parameters.
• Using external, internal or embedded software - Excel, MathCad, MatLab and Web-editors.
• Automating measurements - using an external PC to control the scope to partially or completely automate measurements.
• Viewing the results - tracking and trending parameters.
• Waveform processing - understanding errors and limitations on Enhanced resolution, Interpolation and other waveform processing.
• Documenting and reporting - getting data out of the scope. Using MS Word or other packages to create documentation. Automated report generation.
• Common measurement mistakes and how to avoid them - Optimizing accuracy, resolution, bandwidth and probing. Sampling and memory use issues. Understanding what the scope is doing to avoid common errors.

Testing / debugging

• New trigger and anomaly detection tools are available from all oscilloscope vendors. Understanding how these work and when to use them can save you hours of confusion and debug time.
• Triggering and decoding Serial Busses such as SPI, I2C, CAN, PCI Express, SAS/SATA and other serial data standards is a common requirement. Mike will discuss what to look for and the differences between compliance testing and debug tools.

Our Expert

Mike Hertz is a nine year veteran of LeCroy Field Applications Engineering. Prior to LeCroy, he was an applications engineer with Agilent Technologies and Hewlett-Packard. Mike has published more than 35 technical articles and has seven U.S patents in oscilloscope measurement design. Hertz received a B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University and an M.S.E.E. from the University of Arizona.

You will never meet anyone who knows more about Oscilloscopes and their use than Mike Hertz.

LeCroy Corporation manufacturers the oscilloscopes and protocol analyzers that are used by the world's best design engineers.