Tektronix TDS380 oscilloscope is a graph-displaying device ?it draws a graph of an electrical **. In most applications, the graph shows how **s change over time: the vertical (Y) axis represents voltage and the horizontal (X) axis represents time. The intensity or brightness of the display is sometimes called the Z axis. The Tektronix TDS380 oscilloscope's simple graph can tell you many things about a **, such as: the time and voltage values of a **, the frequency of an oscillating **, the 搈oving parts?of a circuit represented by the **, the frequency with which a particular portion of the ** is occurring relative to, other portions, whether or not a malfunctioning component is distorting the **, how much of a ** is direct current (DC) or alternating current (AC) and how much of the ** is noise and whether the noise is changing with time. Performance Characteristics of the TDS380 Form Factor Benchtop Bandwidth 400 MHz Number of Channels 2 ch Simultaneous Channels 2 ch Simultaneous Maximum Sampling Rate/ch 2 GSa/s One ch. only max. sampling rate 2 GSa/s Max. Record Length 1000 pt/sec Min. Vertical Sensitivity 2 mV/div Maximum Vertical Sensitivity 10 V/div Number of Bits 8 bits Main time base - lowest 1 ns/div Main time base - highest 5 s/div Timebase accuracy 0.01 % Trigger Source External,Internal Display modes Dot,Vector