Remember the days when the car-enthused picked their automobiles based on horsepower and styling? Today, with electronics accounting for approximately 25 percent of the value of automobiles, showroom battles are often won (and lost) based on the sophistication of safety and efficiency technologies.

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Triggers on oscilloscopes are nothing new. In fact, the oscilloscope became a much more useful tool in 1946 when Howard C. Vollum and Jack Murdock invented the triggered oscilloscope and in 1947 built the Tektronix Model 511.

Flash forward to today and you’ll find that triggers are still an essential oscilloscope capability.

At Tektronix we work to transform the way you test, and that is exactly what we did with the release of the MDO4000 Mixed Domain Oscilloscope. Also known as the world’s first (and only) mixed domain oscilloscope, the MDO4000 allows users to capture time-correlated analog, digital and RF signals for a complete system view of a device.

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1. On-Board Diagnostics Not Just For Racing Anymore, May 6 2013, Pallab Chatterjee, Automotive Innovation -- Let’s talk racing!

By Alan Wolke 

With the recent announcement of the world’s fastest Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) from Tektronix Component Solutions, I thought it would be interesting to take a quick tutorial tour through one of the simplest DAC architectures – the R-2R resistor ladder network as shown in Figure 1below.