When you buy a low- to mid-range oscilloscope, it usually comes standard with a high-impedance passive probe per oscilloscope channel. Compared to active probes, passive probes are more rugged and ...

Tektronix recently launched the TAP1500L, an active, single-ended probe that comes with a seven-meter probe cable. With a cable 5.7 meters longer than the original TAP1500 active single-ended probe, ...

Beaverton, Oregon—Scope make Tektronix is extending its existing Z-Active family of differential oscilloscope probes with the immediate availability of its 6-GHz P7360 Active Differential Probe. The ...

When you think of a scope probe, you usually think of what is basically a wire with a spring hook and an attenuator. Those are passive probes. [Kerry Wong] shows off a pre-release active probe that ...

If you do any work with high-speed signals, you quickly realize that probing is an art unto itself. Just having a fast oscilloscope isn’t enough; you’ve got to have probes fast enough to handle the ...

Rohde & Schwarz recently announced their MXO3 1 GHz bandwidth 12-bit oscilloscope [1], and I managed to get one to review.