DS1000Z noise performance

Posted on: December 16th, 2020 by Doug Lovell

Here are a few screen captures of a DS1104Z series oscilloscope with various inputs. The intent is to show the basic noise you can expect from a similar instrument.


Figure 1: DS1104Z with open input, 10mV/div vertical scale, 1us/div horizontal scale.


Figure 2: DS1104Z with 10x probe connected to probe compensation point. 500mV/div vertical scale, 200us/div horizontal scale.


Figure 3: DS1104Z with 10x probe connected to probe compensation point. Zoomed to 10mV/div vertical scale, 200us/div horizontal scale.


Figure 4: DS1104Z with 1V DC input. Direct connection to function generator with coaxial cable. 10mV/div vertical scale, 200us/div horizontal scale.