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 ...

[Mark Omo] sends in his write up on the design of what should hopefully be a sub-$100 oscilloscope in a probe. Many problems in engineering can be solved simply by throwing money at the them. It’s ...