When is Dave Jones going to review the MSO version of the new Rigol 7000 series?
In this review I would like to see an extensive real world protocol decoder test and Logic Analyzer test.
The test should test the speed when using full memory depth, and should verify if the protocol decoding is really done in hardware.
One should also make a long memory capture, and search in the long memory capture to verify how easy it is to search within a long trace.
Maybe use an actual PCB board of a commercial product, where I2C, SPI, CAN signals are present, and perform a real world protocol decoder test and Logic Analyzer test.
Perform a real world troubleshooting session, to put the product to a real world test!
This video would have a dual function: verify how good the MSO version of the new Rigol 7000 series is, and at the same time educate about troubleshooting techniques using powerful protocol decoder and LA tools.
Of course the test should also verify how good the new analog front-end is (bandwidth, trigger implementation, jitter, noise level).
Rumours in the past indicated that Rigol engineers have no clue on how to properly implement the trigger circuitry, and that there actually is a fundamental flaw in the design.
Maybe the trigger implementation can be verified in the new Rigol 7000 series.
Another nice test would be to check if Rigol has a similar feature as Siglent to generate Bode diagrams on the oscilloscope, where the oscilloscope controls an external signal generator.