Ted Yapo - Towards an Open-Source Multi-GHz Sampling Oscilloscope

Tektronix designed a 14.5 GHz sampling oscilloscope in 1968. With the easy multi-layer PCB designs, tiny surface-mount parts, blazingly fast semiconductors, and computer horsepower available to the individual designer today, can a similar sampling head be re-created inexpensively with common, off-the-shelf components? Should be easy, right? It’s not. In this talk, I’ll discuss progress towards an open-source GHz+ sampling oscilloscope, including a lot of dead ends, plus some very promising leads. Read the article on Hackaday: hackaday.com/?p=394608 Follow Ted on Twitter: twitter.com/tedyapo

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