MIBAM waveform

Lecroy WaveAce 224


Folder: Electronics
Lecroy is pretty big in high-end oscilloscopes in the multi-GHz-range. These cost several 100s of thousands, and a lot of them use windows as the user interface - including a virus scanner... Can their low-end scopes live up to what the name Lecroy promises? Not in this case, but that is my very personal experience. And if the firmware should get fixed some day... one can dream!

MIBAM waveform

19 Apr 2012 159
This should be a representation of the number 1110 = 14. The small spikes are caused by interrupt code running. The low periods should have lengths of 2N, 4N, 8N. I'll have to try this again with an external trigger. There is too much jitter to get a stable image.

MIBAM waveform

19 Apr 2012 166
As expected / feared, memory depth is always too low :-( Every DSO should have at least 1M per channel.

Auto measurements: Δφ

23 Apr 2012 108
Measuring a phase difference seems to work in this case. Although I'm starting to wonder where these '457.925Hz' come from. Looking at the timebase I am led to believe that it should be more 'like 8.89kHz' - something is confused again :-(

Lecroy WaveAce224 - Pass/Fail

24 Feb 2010 273
Finally! I've received a brand new Lecroy WaveAce224 digital storage oscilloscope (reduced price promotion). When I'm lucky I might find some time to play with it on the weekends.

Not so clean edge

18 Apr 2012 168
The question: is the ringing real? In this case it was caused by sin(x)/x interpolation. I was instantly suspicious as this effect only showed up at one zoom setting.

Serial data at 9600bps

18 Apr 2012 138
With 104µs the average bit time is pretty much on spec. A nice thing when running with a ceramic resonator. I had to tune the bit-delays to get there. The ATtiny85 unfortunately doesn't have a hardware UART.

Clean edge

Serial data at 9600bps

18 Apr 2012 159
The little insert is quite annoying. It simply doesn't want to move out of the way.

Confused trigger

19 Apr 2012 147
This one should have triggered on a positive pulse shorter than 73µs.

Confused trigger

19 Apr 2012 155
This one should have triggered on a positive pulse longer than 177µs.

MIBAM

19 Apr 2012 161
Playing with the persistence setting. It is variable, but unfortunately the old traces don't fade out. They just vanish after a timeout.

MIBAM - trying to get it to trigger

MIBAM - delayed interrupt

19 Apr 2012 161
Once in a while the interrupt gets delayed. The green pulse-train shows when and how long the ISR runs. This causes fluctuations in brightness.

MIBAM - bad ISR runtime

19 Apr 2012 161
The ISR takes too long and messes up the timing of the least significant bits.

MIBAM - OK ISR run time

19 Apr 2012 161
Now the ISR is short enough as not to interfere too much with the least significant bits.

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