The little story behind the Agilent oscilloscope

Agilent's infiniivision 2000X and 3000X Oscilloscope won the best Test Instrument award for the "World of Electronics" Editorial award at the end of 2011 as the only award-winning Test instrument for its award-winning rationale for "Revolutionary Innovation integrated Versatility, Bring the new changes in the market of low-end oscilloscope, and for education and research in different markets for different product definition, cost-effective. Today, this series has added new products, added 4 1GHz new products, and can provide integrated voltmeter (DVM) function, achieve 5 unity.

At the press conference, the reporter learned some of the Agilent oscilloscope products behind the story.

First, Agilent will be in order to express the value of the oscilloscope products, from the original digital testing division out of the division, set up a new scope product division, expressed the future continue to vigorously expand the scope of the oscilloscope market determination.

Second, Agilent in the 2000-2010 decade, oscilloscope product CAGR (annual composite growth rate) reached 10.6%, far beyond the oscilloscope market average CAGR 3.5%.

Third, Agilent's infiniivision 2000X and 3000X since its inception, because of its focus on distribution channels, so that the Agilent distribution channel annual sales growth of more than 50%, which shows the popularity of this series of products.

Four, the new products will be similar to the price of 500MHz products to provide a new 1GHz product features, and further enhance the cost performance. At the same time Agilent has a hunch that the new product and the original 7000 series of competition, is expected to affect the 7000 series with the target products up to half the sales.

Finally, Agilent's oscilloscope strategy for the next year, the R&d market will be the core, followed by the main education market, in the Chinese market, they are optimistic about the bright future of industrial production market.

Recently learned that the Agilent oscilloscope 20G ADC is set up by 80 250M ADC, but this multiple ADC is built in a chip, so performance relative to the discrete ADC parallel to achieve the same effect to be stable. However, objectively speaking, there is no one oscilloscope four manufacturers choose commercial ADC to carry out their own top-level oscilloscope development, after all, ADC-oriented analog front-end is the core of the oscilloscope.