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Rigol MSO 5000 hardware/software revisions
thinkfat:
I guess the MSO5000 is their loss leader. They will not put more effort into it than absolutely necessary. While it sells, that is.
Why they treat the 8000 with the same negligence is beyond me, though.
But this tells a story about how they develop their firmware. Normally, there is at least a ticketing system, or a workflow tool like Jira, combined with a versioning system for the code, both linked together. Or a combined solution like Gitlab. Nothing goes into the code that is not traceable with a ticket, and release notes are generated from the completed tickets.
Rigols firmware releases demonstrate none of the the above and the firmware quality reflects that.
Gandalf_Sr:
Hmm, I just got back from a cruise in the Caribbean and my MSO5074 arrived while I was away, I wonder what version of HW/SW I have - I will check and post back tomorrow.
jjoonathan:
It was the same story with the DS4000. The hardware was "belt and suspenders" (8x Nyquist sampling, hefty FPGAs, 3mm thick plastic, branded components, even machined heat sinks in the later ones IIRC) but the firmware had big, glaring bugs that took forever to fix and even then would sometimes return in subsequent updates. Decodes didn't work in segmented memory mode until years after release, the knob acceleration was awful, then mediocre, then awful again, I'm pretty sure some of the "fancy" triggers straight up didn't work, and a number of very significant improvements to FFT and measurements for the DS1054Z never got back/up-ported.
Gandalf_Sr:
--- Quote from: Gandalf_Sr on March 01, 2020, 12:23:59 am ---Hmm, I just got back from a cruise in the Caribbean and my MSO5074 arrived while I was away, I wonder what version of HW/SW I have - I will check and post back tomorrow.
--- End quote ---
Bad news I think; I turned on my new MSO5074 (purchased from Tequiment.net who, when I ordered, assured me that I would be getting the latest version) and it's hardware version 01.00.000 (firmware 00.01.01.04.04) and it appears to have the dim screen problem. I stopped at that point and will contact Tequipment to ask for a replacement.
Any thoughts or comments?
Martin72:
Hm,
Firmware was released in august 2019 - my former 5074 (bought in 11/2018) had the hardware version 01.00.000 and was fixed by rigol in june 2019 what fan and display concerns.
Can´t believe you´re getting a really "old" one, they´d forgotten to fix it too.
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