Hi Sam,

Yes, this is what many have been anticipating.  The software is a bit buggy yet, but the performance is simply awesome.

I did a save on trigger test just to see how fast the data transfer was over USB 2.0 on my IBM laptop.  I set the scope up for maximum samples running all four channels to load it to the hilt.  I set it at 100ms/div so I had one second on each screen.  Then I ran a timed 30 second save on trigger session.  I got 27 files.  This means that 90% of everything that was happening was written to the hard drive.

I don't have any here yet, but am now taking advance orders.  I have a bunch of them ordered, but I'm sure they will be gone fast.  There will be a lag in supply for a while until production ramps up, so the next batch may be delayed.

As for the advanced triggering, I don't see anything advanced about it.  It's the same edge trigger with level and delay that the 212 series has.

Hi Nick,

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My tests on data transfer on USB 1.1 were much less impressive.  About 50-60% capture rate.  This all may change with a future software release though.

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Yup, pretty much.  You just have to let Windows initially find the drivers for the USB.

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Yes, the buffer and the ADC are both shared.

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Well, all this depends on the machine way too much but I did run some tests in Chart and got 500s/sec.  Get 100s/sec on parallel.  Not much improvement here

The hardware is capable of streaming much faster and I would not be surprised to see a future software release with high speed streaming capability.  This is still very new stuff and I think the software will have to grow into this killer piece of hardware.