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Would this, or current technology, be fast enough to have a (professional grade) Oscilloscope as a PCIe card? It's my understanding (I don't work around top of the line so I'm probably wrong) that even the best scopes don't have particularly amazing interfacing with regular PCs because of low data bandwidth with their interfaces.


Todays top of the line osciloscopes (in the $250k+ range) are basically a Windows computer with some custom hardware -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx596o8t_TY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgbAESoFDAY


But Agilent had Win98-based oscilloscopes more then 15 years ago.


I have a DOS-based LeCroy oscilloscope with an embedded 386 and an IDE hard drive. The 'oscilloscope' part is hooked up through an ISA card.




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