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Decoding oscope?
Tech_Monkey:
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EE students at North Carolina State University (my alma mater) were required to purchase the Analog Discovery for some of their basic circuits labs. It does a lot of different things and has a very small form factor (USB/PC based).
I've used one extensively and my feeing is that it's barely adequate for undergrad academic use: I've never seen one in a "proper" lab outside of academia. The price, even with the academic discount, has also gone way up recently. My feeling is that it made perfect sense to have students buy them during COVID so they could do their own labs at home, but I think students are always better served using traditional standalone, discrete instruments.
One thing I really do like about the AD2 is the serial / digital pattern generator - if you need to emulate or create an arbitrary serial or even parallel (!!!) data pattern, the AD2 is an easy way to do this compared to other methods (although the new Batronix demo board addresses this now)
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/new-scope-demoboard-from-batronix/msg4898882/#msg4898882
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So funny enough. I am orginally from NC, and my SO wants to attend NC state for her masters. I have always been a wolfpack fan and i think I have turned her into one as well. Do you think her trying to get in there for her masters is worth it and/or doable? Shes super smart, hard working and has a pretty good GPA, as well as planned physics and math minors. Shes doing research this summer with someone in the RF labs to help pad the resume, and after she graduates were taking a trip to alaska where she wants to teach at the community college there for a couple semesters just to help out (if anyone needs the help that is)
anyways, back on topic Thanks everyone for your advice. I Really just wanted to do something nice to upgrade her lab equipment as shes already building quite the collection. I going to follow the advice of looking for some decent used equipment on Ebay. Thanks again.
TomKatt:
As others have pointed out, oscopes with decoding features are typically limited in their decoding ease of use and overall feature set, especially in 'more affordable' gear. A cheap generic decoder running open source Sigrok software usually outperforms this tier of scopes.
Certainly, an oscope is a useful tool and if the logic analyzer fails or spits out garbage, it's handy to inspect the waveform for issues. At that point, the Digilent Analog Discovery starts looking good.
IMO, a $10-$20 investment for a generic LA is a good starting point - you can always move up to better equipment later if you need to. But for that price, why not just get one to see if it does the job ?
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Tech_Monkey on October 27, 2023, 04:12:15 pm ---I am orginally from NC, and my SO wants to attend NC state for her masters. I have always been a wolfpack fan and i think I have turned her into one as well. Do you think her trying to get in there for her masters is worth it and/or doable?
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I got my MSEE from NC State and several members of my family also got their engineering degrees there, and we were all very happy with the program.
I don't think a lot of people realize how big the College of Engineering is at NC State: it's one of the 10 largest engineering programs in the United States (~10,000 engineering students). The graduate program is also very robust: at the Spring 2023 commencement there were almost twice as many ECE Master / PhD degrees awarded (black gowns) compared to undergrads (red gowns).
So yes, definitely do-able and worth doing in my opinion.
Tech_Monkey:
--- Quote from: pdenisowski on October 27, 2023, 05:15:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Tech_Monkey on October 27, 2023, 04:12:15 pm ---I am orginally from NC, and my SO wants to attend NC state for her masters. I have always been a wolfpack fan and i think I have turned her into one as well. Do you think her trying to get in there for her masters is worth it and/or doable?
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I got my MSEE from NC State and several members of my family also got their engineering degrees there, and we were all very happy with the program.
I don't think a lot of people realize how big the College of Engineering is at NC State: it's one of the 10 largest engineering programs in the United States (~10,000 engineering students). The graduate program is also very robust: at the Spring 2023 commencement there were almost twice as many ECE Master / PhD degrees awarded (black gowns) compared to undergrads (red gowns).
So yes, definitely do-able and worth doing in my opinion.
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With numbers like that maybe she should pick a different degree :-DD
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