- #Oscilloscope program for mac mac os x
- #Oscilloscope program for mac drivers
- #Oscilloscope program for mac software
#Oscilloscope program for mac software
Both the hardware and the software are much better than the BitScope (which has not improved much in the intervening 4 years). I bought a much better USB oscilloscope, the Analog Discovery 2 by Digilent, which works with Mac, Windows, and Linux computers. Screenshots and comment at FET threshold tests with Bitscope.
#Oscilloscope program for mac mac os x
I bought a USB oscilloscope that does work with Mac OS X (the BitScope Pocket Analyzer). I don’t currently own an iPad, and have no plans to get one, but if someone came out with a great oscilloscope based on it, I might get one just for that app. It would probably need its own rechargeable battery, as the iPad is not going to provide much power. This would require a digital storage scope that is not a USB device but uses the weird iPad/iPhone/iPod connector. If someone is looking for a hardware project, I think that the iPad looks like a great device to be the screen of an oscilloscope.
#Oscilloscope program for mac drivers
This seems to me like a great project for a computer engineering student who enjoys writing device drivers and working out communications protocols with hardware that was probably designed with no attention at all to the needs of software engineers. In fact, an all-software solution that works with several of the existing USB hardware devices would be ideal. I think that there is a market out there for USB scopes that can work with any of the common laptop platforms (Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux). I guess that the small companies that sell digital scopes don’t have the resources to hire two engineers (one to design the hardware, another to design the software), and so make do with half-assed designs that only run on one operating system. It is true that most of the EE students and faculty I know who would be competent to design the analog electronics for a USB scope do not have the programming ability to design multi-platform software. I found this a little surprising, as the Mac OS X machines are much more popular with computer scientists and bioinformaticians than Windows machines are, and I thought that computer engineers would have established a market for USB scopes for Macbooks. There are dozens of USB oscilloscopes on the market, but so far as I could tell, none of them had software that would run under Mac OS X. What I’d like is a USB device that handles the analog part of a digital storage scope that plugs into my laptop and uses the laptop for storing, processing, and displaying the signals. Neither do I want one of the little pocket oscilloscopes that look like graphing calculators, with the same sort of low-quality screens and fiddly interfaces.
I don’t want one of the huge old CRT oscilloscopes, like the Heathkit that my brother and I assembled as kids (I don’t remember the model number, but looking in the Heathkit Virtual Museum, I think it was the OM-11). This summer I was playing a little with electronic hardware (something I’ve not done much since I left computer engineering as a field) and was wishing I had an oscilloscope at home.
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