Digital Oscilloscopes

Digital Oscilloscopes are the essential tool for seeing electricity in motion. By plotting voltage against time, they allow engineers to visualise, analyse, and troubleshoot electrical signals as waveforms.

Why Choose a Digital Oscilloscope?

Waveform storage and analysis: Unlike analogue scopes, DSOs capture and store data as digital points, allowing you to stop the trigger, zoom in on specific details, and perform complex maths (like FFTs) on the signal.

Advanced triggering: DSOs can trigger on specific digital patterns, pulse widths, or logic states, making it much easier to isolate intermittent “glitches” that would be invisible on a continuous analogue sweep.

Automated measurements: They provide instant, on-screen readouts for parameters like peak-to-peak voltage, frequency, rise time, and duty cycle, removing the guesswork of counting manual divisions.

Connectivity and integration: Digital models easily interface with PCs via USB or LAN, allowing you to save screenshots for reports, export raw data for Excel, or automate testing via software.

Core Applications

Circuit troubleshooting: Identifying signal integrity issues, such as excessive noise, ringing, or voltage drops, to ensure a prototype behaves as designed.

Serial data decoding: Analysing communication protocols like I²C, SPI, or UART by viewing the physical timed pulses and decoding them into readable hex or binary values.

Power electronics testing: Measuring the efficiency of switching power supplies and checking for dangerous voltage spikes during “turn-on” or “turn-off” cycles.

Embedded systems debugging: Correlating hardware signals with software execution to find out why a microcontroller is crashing or failing to trigger an external peripheral.

Series	Brand	Analogue Ch	Digital Ch	Max Bandwidth	Max Sample Rate	Waveforms	Resolution	Memory Range	Price From
SDS800X-HD Series	Siglent	4, 2	16 Opt.	200MHz, 100MHz, 70MHz	2GSa/s	500,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	100Mpts, 50Mpts	£303.00
SDS2000X-Plus Series	Siglent	4, 2	16	350MHz, 200MHz, 100MHz	2GSa/s	120,000 wfms/s	10-Bit	200Mpts	£757.00
DHO900 Series	Rigol	4	16 Opt.	250MHz, 125MHz	1.25GSa/s	1,000,000 wfms/s, 78,000 wfms/s,	12-Bit	50Mpts	£501.00
MHO900 Series	Rigol	4	16 Opt.	1GHz, 800MHz, 500MHz, 350MHz	4GSa/s	1,000,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	500Mpts, 100Mpts	£702.00
DHO800 Series	Rigol	4, 2	-	100MHz, 70MHz	1.25GSa/s	1,000,000 wfms/s, 78,000 wfms/s,	12-Bit	25Mpts	£266.00
SDS7000A Series	Siglent	4	16	8GHz, 6GHz, 4GHz, 3GHz	20GSa/s	1,000,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	1Gpts, 500Mpts	£16,004.00
ETO Series	Micsig	4	-	500MHz, 350MHz	3GSa/s	230,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	360Mpts	£1,637.00
MHO6 Series	Micsig	8	-	1GHz, 500MHz, 350MHz	6GSa/s	280,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	1.8Gpts	£10,344.00
MHO1 Series	Micsig	4	-	200MHz, 100MHz	1GSa/s	50,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	110Mpts	£603.00
MHO3 Series	Micsig	4	-	500MHz, 350MHz, 250MHz	3GSa/s	230,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	360Mpts	£1,982.00
SATO/VATO Series	Micsig	4, 2	-	200MHz, 100MHz	1GSa/s	130,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	70Mpts	£284.00
STO1004	Micsig	4	-	100MHz	1GSa/s	130,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	70Mpts	£473.00
TO Series	Micsig	4, 2	-	300MHz, 200MHz, 100MHz	2GSa/s, 1GSa/s	300,000 wfms/s, 78,000 wfms/s,	8-Bit	220Mpts, 110Mpts	£404.00
DHO1000 Series	Rigol	4, 2	-	200MHz, 100MHz, 70MHz	2GSa/s	1,500,000 wfms/s, 78,000 wfms/s,	12-Bit	50Mpts	£757.00
DHO4000 Series	Rigol	4	-	800MHz, 400MHz, 200MHz	4GSa/s	1,500,000	12-Bit	250Mpts	£1,867.00
DS1000Z/-E Series	Rigol	4, 2	16 Opt.	200MHz, 100MHz, 70MHz, 50MHz	1GSa/s	30,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	24Mpts	£189.00
DS70000 Series	Rigol	4	-	5GHz, 3GHz	20GSa/s	1,000,000 wfms/s	16-Bit	500Mpts	£16,940.00
DS8000-R Series	Rigol	4	-	500MHz, 350MHz	10GSa/s, 5GSa/s	600,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	500Mpts	£2,506.00
DS80000 Series	Rigol	4	-	13GHz, 10GHz, 8GHz, 6GHz	160GSa/s	250,000 wfms/s	16-Bit	500Mpts
MHO/DHO5000 Series	Rigol	8, 6, 4	16 Opt.	1GHz, 500MHz	4GSa/s	1,000,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	500Mpts	£3,804.00
MHO2000 Series	Rigol	4	16 Opt.	350MHz, 200MHz	2GSa/s	500,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	500Mpts	£2,074.00
MSO/DS2000A Series	Rigol	2	16 Opt	300MHz, 200MHz, 100MHz	2GSa/s	52,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	56Mpts	£491.00
MSO/DS7000 Series	Rigol	4	16	100MHz, 200MHz, 350MHz, 500MHz	10GSa/s	600,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	500Mpts	£1,902.00
MSO5000 Series	Rigol	4, 2	16 Opt.	350MHz, 200MHz, 100MHz, 70MHz	8GSa/s	500,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	100Mpts	£699.30
MSO5000-E	Rigol	2	16	150MHz	4GSa/s	300,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	50Mpts	£725.40
MSO8000/A Series	Rigol	4	16	2GHz, 1GHz, 600MHz	10GSa/s	600,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	500Mpts	£5,534.00
MXO 3 Series	Rohde & Schwarz	8, 4	16	1GHz, 500MHz, 350MHz, 200MHz, 100MHz	5GSa/s	4,500,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	125 Mpts
SDS1000X-E Series	Siglent	4, 2	16	200MHz, 100MHz	1GSa/s	400,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	14Mpts	£285.00
SDS1000X-HD Series	Siglent	4, 2	16	200MHz, 100MHz	2GSa/s	500,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	100Mpts	£808.00
SDS1000X-U Series	Siglent	4	-	100MHz, 200MHz	1GSa/s	400,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	14Mpts	£303.00
SDS2000X-HD	Siglent	4	16	350MHz, 200MHz	2GSa/s	500,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	200Mpts	£1,921.00
SDS3000X-HD Series	Siglent	4	16	1GHz, 500MHz, 350MHz	4GSa/s	890,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	400Mpts	£2,848.00
SDS5000L Series	Siglent	8	-	1GHz, 500MHz, 350MHz	5GSa/s	650,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	2.5Gpts	£7,754.00
SDS5000X-HD Series	Siglent	8, 6, 4	16 Opt.	1GHz, 500MHz, 350MHz	5GSa/s	650,000 wfms/s	12-Bit	2.5Gpts	£6,540.00
SDS5000X Series	Siglent	4	16	1GHz, 500MHz, 350MHz	5GSa/s	110,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	250Mpts	£2,418.00
SDS6000A Series	Siglent	4	16	2GHz, 1GHz, 500MHz	5GSa/s	750,000 wfms/s	16-Bit	500Mpts	£5,460.00
SHS1000X Series	Siglent	2	-	200MHz, 100MHz	1GSa/s	400,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	12Mpts	£1,178.00
SHS800X Series	Siglent	2	-	200MHz, 100MHz	1GSa/s	400,000 wfms/s	8-Bit	12Mpts	£580.00