Which oscilloscopes do you prefer, Tektronix or Agilent?

Question

...and what particular application are you using them for?

Answer 1

Tektronix. I use an MSO4104 to debug... stuff. I use it with active and passive probes.

I tried the Agilent MSO6014A and didn't like it very much.It wasn't as nice an instrument to use and its active probes were clunky to use.

Logic analyzers I still prefer Agilent however.

Answer 2

Tektronix ...  it's just that they're a lot more common,

(for the place where I work anyway)

and are thereby more "familiar"

mostly I use them for amplitude measurements

when I need an alternative way to make a measurement.

they're also nice to "see" what's going on in an

analog circuit.

Agilent test-eq is very 'powerful' but also

very expensive [relatively] ... and "cost"

is a reality which must be considered

in "cost-benefit" matters

Answer 3

I personally like Agilent better (although we pretty much have 50/50 distribution of scopes between Agilents and Teks), the GUI and SW are more intuitive to use and set up. Tektronix is more complicated to configure and set up, and Tek scopes are a lot bigger that those of Agilent, I'm talking about 18GHz and up on bandwidth. The specific application I use them for is debugging, jitter measurement, signal integrity, etc.

Answer 4

For an analog scope I am partial to Tektronix, for a digital scope I am partial to HP, for a logic state analyzer I am partial to Agilent..... DMM or DVM is Fluke, signal sources such as function generators it's HP....thats most of the generally used stuff I guess.