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Oscium's iMSO-104 turns your iPad into a mixed signal oscilloscope

by Chris Ward Apr 9th 2011 at 1:30PM

iMSO-104

Inventive people continue to demonstrate how versatile iPads are. The latest example we've found turns the device into an oscilloscope.

Oscium developed the iMSO-104 mixed-signal oscilloscope for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch "quickly and easily," the company says, thanks to Apple's iOS and MFi (Made for iPod, Made for iPhone and Made for iPad) developer programs. "It boasts a 5 MHz bandwidth and up to 12 MSPS (megasamples per second) sample rate, while simultaneously analyzing up to one analog and four digital signals," says Oscium.

The sensors use Cypress Semiconductor's PSoC® 3 programmable system-on-a-chip to manage two-way communication between the sensors and your device The app is in the App Store now for free, while the full hardware rig will run you US$279.99. That's not a bad price for an oscilloscope.

[Via Engadget]



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Neubaum Turk

As someone in the business of selling Oscilloscopes (as well as other T/M products), 5MHz is too low. The demand out there really starts at 20MHz and ranges to 100MHz for low cost scopes. Admittedly, there may be "a LOT of embedded applications where 5MHz is PLENTY", but honesty these models don't sell. For this to have any real appeal, it needs to be at least 20MHz bandwidth and two channels.

April 11 2011 at 9:18 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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pixtache

You can have a 20MHz PC-based logic analyzer only for 59euros : http://ikalogicstore.com/product.php?id_product=11

April 11 2011 at 4:43 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
AMP

Not bad. I'll be waiting for the 1 GHz version though. :D

April 10 2011 at 4:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
hegler.kim

Good! Unbielibable ^^

April 10 2011 at 3:40 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ctt1wbw

Cool. Let me know when I can turn it into a ULQ-16.

April 09 2011 at 2:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Valerio Paris Mitritsakis

5MHz is too litle. If it were 20MHz I for one would be interested. I 've been thinking for a while to pick up a used oscilloscope from eBay...

April 09 2011 at 1:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Doug

You are thinking too narrowly.

1. There are a LOT of embedded applications where 5MHz is PLENTY of bandwidth. And I note that 4 digital inputs is just about right for debugging a pesky SPI problem. And not many of those happen at greater than 5 MHz.

2. There are a LOT of field-techs that would KILL to have a portable COLOR oscilloscope with this bandwidth out in the field. I'd like if you could trade the digital inputs for another analog if you wanted; but it's STILL a very useful tool, nonetheless.

April 09 2011 at 2:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Valerio Paris Mitritsakis

I probably should have stressed more on the "for me" part than the "too little" :-)
I am sure there are a lot of uses and they probably did some research prior to developing it anyway.

Thank you for your comment Doug, what makes TUAW great, apart from the published content, is it's community.

April 09 2011 at 3:02 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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