100- and 200-MHz handheld DSO/DMMs add color displays. (leading edge).(Fluke ScopeMeter devices iwth color displays)(Product Announcement)

EDN, December, 2001 by Strassberg, Dan

FLUKE CORP HAS INTRODUCED its first ScopeMeter test tools with color displays. Changing from a monochrome LCD to a color one wasn't the simple task that the uninitiated might imagine. Battery life between charges is a key specification of handheld electronic devices, and every EE knows that color displays consume substantially more power than their monochrome brethren. Fluke's inclusion of a color display without reducing the four-hour battery life required the company to design a full-custom IC. Fluke's engineers increased the units' display-update rate by a factor of seven, making the instruments substantially more responsive. Moreover, the two-channel units retain less-than-$3000 prices; the 200-MHz-bandwidth, 2.5Gsample/sec 199C costs $2995, and the...

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