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Tektronix Oscilloscopes pros and cons

Vendor: Tektronix
4.2 out of 5
 

Tektronix Oscilloscopes Pros review quotes

Founder2a26 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Feb 3, 2019
It has digital scopes with a high bandwidth and digitized signal. It can do whatever you want with the signal. Since its user-friendly software allows you to work with the signal, which is pretty cool.
Electric7fa9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Electrical Design Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
The most valuable features are everything they do. We primarily use the O-scopes and they help us figure out what's going wrong with our scope out signals.
GS
Principal Electrical Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
Valuable features include that it's multi-channel... and has bandwidth filtering. The user interface is good.
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CC
Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Feb 3, 2019
It has very fast response with deep memory.
SA
Hardware Validation Engineer at Qualcomm
Feb 3, 2019
It provides you the best way to view information without opening multiple applications, like a single solution.
CL
Hardware Engineer at Northrop
Feb 3, 2019
It has a good user interface. It's easy to use, easy to read. It's intuitive.
Electric4b10 - PeerSpot reviewer
Electrical Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
I haven't seen anything similar where it has a spectrum analyzer and regular scope together.
FG
Lead Design Engineer at Cadence
Feb 3, 2019
It is easy to handle, so everyone likes to use it.
Engineer898a - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 3, 2019
Tektronix is robust and reliable. It's a hammer-resistant machine, a fact which is most important on our manufacturing floor.
RT
QA Director at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 3, 2019
The user interface is excellent. The GUI is so self-explanatory and there are the same knobs everywhere; the design is a standard design line.
 

Tektronix Oscilloscopes Cons review quotes

Founder2a26 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
Feb 3, 2019
I am not utilizing the full bandwidth of this product.
Electric7fa9 - PeerSpot reviewer
Electrical Design Engineer at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
There is room for improvement when it comes to the screen size. I don't really have a lot of complaints but screen size would be the biggest thing.
GS
Principal Electrical Engineer at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
I know you can get the Bit Masks but it's generally really expensive to get the eye diagrams and Bit Masks with it. I wish they were included or cheaper.
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CC
Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Feb 3, 2019
I would like to see more integration into machine learning because that's what we try to apply it to.
SA
Hardware Validation Engineer at Qualcomm
Feb 3, 2019
There was a learning curve, which was a little tricky at times. Getting used to the GUI took time because we had to learn the different features.
CL
Hardware Engineer at Northrop
Feb 3, 2019
If they could make the user interface even more intuitive that would help. If they could make it easier to read, to know where the buttons are, that's all I need.
Electric4b10 - PeerSpot reviewer
Electrical Engineer at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Feb 3, 2019
The power of the computer inside is weak. Sometimes I send a lot of data and I'll feel the lag... I would like to see them improve the processing power.
FG
Lead Design Engineer at Cadence
Feb 3, 2019
I use microservices, but you cannot really probe it, since the technology is not really there.
Engineer898a - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 3, 2019
They need to add more memory to this machine.
RT
QA Director at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Feb 3, 2019
The ruggedness could be improved.