Introduction

This project aims at creating an Open Source Digital Sampling Oscilloscope (DSO).

The target is to design a 2-channel, 100 MS/s sampling rate, 8-bit resolution portable device.

Although there are numerous DSO projects floating around on the Net, none of them is suitable because:

Based on this observation, this project was started with several goals in mind:

propose an Open Source DSO with useful performance at a reasonable price
in its bare bone version, provide a cheap analog front-end for FPGA or DSP-based circuits
expose the project internals for learning high-speed analogue electronic design and FPGA/Soft-Core co-design
eventually get familiar with the industrialization process of a complex electronic device

License

Unless otherwise stated, all the documents pertaining to this project are placed under the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) License, and all sources are placed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

We are trying to set up a draft specification and we started a block diagram.

We decided to work concurrently on the analog front-end and the FPGA design, using a simulating high-speed signal generator.

Nothing done yet.

We will try to compile a useful list of links to documents related to the project:

Everything!

As it is today, this project is a work in progress, and you are more than welcome to contribute to it!