Test, measurement and monitoring instrumentation provider Tektronix Inc., Beaverton OR, has extended MyScope fully customizable user interface technology to its entire mid-range and high-performance oscilloscopes portfolio.
The intuitive capabilities of the control windows and right-clicks technology simplify and make more efficient design validation measurements and tests so that engineers can get their work done quickly and easily.
These capabilities are now extended to the TDS7154B, TDS7254B, TDS7404B, TDS7704B, CSA7404B, TDS6000B and TDS6000C models; a complimentary upgrade is available from the manufacturer.
Oscilloscope users are faced with increasing pressures to improve design and manufacturing processes, lower development costs and shorten time to market, the company says. MyScope control windows for oscilloscopes simplify the test activities performed by electrical engineers and manufacturing technicians.
“The MyScope and right-clicks interface has raised the standard for oscilloscope usability,” Colin Shepard, Tektronix Vice President, Performance Oscilloscope Products, says. “Feedback from customers after introduction of the TDS5000B Series with MyScope, and the subsequent DesignVision Award given by the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) and EDN Innovation Award reinforced our decision to extend the offering across a broader portfolio.”
“With the MyScope interface, Tektronix’ mid-range and high-performance models are the only oscilloscopes on the market that allow a user to create customized control windows, resulting in shorter learning curves, easy repeatability of operations, and personalization for multiple users,” he adds.
MyScope functionality enables users to quickly and easily customize the oscilloscope to meet their unique requirements. Using a simple drag and drop procedure, users are able to pull all the oscilloscope features they use into a single half screen control window; allowing them to tailor the oscilloscope to their particular style or measurement task.
Engineers can create a virtually unlimited number of custom control windows, enabling multiple users of a shared oscilloscope to each have their own custom interface.
Control windows maximize efficiency in a user’s day-to-day work by focusing their energy on the task at hand rather than navigating back and forth through multiple menus and submenus. Relearning how to use the oscilloscope after breaks from lab work is eliminated through the ability to save and reuse the customized control windows.
Users also will be able to navigate through context sensitive menus using Microsoft Windows mouse right-click and scroll-wheel capabilities. When pointing the cursor at an area of interest on the display, such as a waveform displayed on channel one, users can right-click to bring up a menu of possible controls. The menu then displayed on the screen is for channel one related adjustments and measurements.
Users can select and adjust these controls without need to navigate the traditional menu operation.
Controls selected via a right mouse click automatically assign any associated parameters to the mouse scroll wheel for quick and easy adjustment. A press of the mouse scroll wheel toggles between coarse and fine adjustments of the parameter’s value, allowing the user to quickly achieve the desired setting without their hand ever leaving the mouse.
Right click menus keep simple things simple by providing shortcut alternatives to the menu structure users normally would navigate, Tektronix says.
