We performed a comparison between Keysight Oscilloscopes and National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Siglent, Tektronix, Keysight Technologies and others in Oscilloscopes."Before silicon came back, our customers' performance was affected. Using these tools, we are able to deliver performance to our customers."
"The technical support is good, and it has very strong customer support. They sent an engineer to us who gave us some training and tutorials."
"Because they're such a big industry standard name, their products are standardized across many customers, which is why people own these products."
"We rely on the data and we make our design calls, risk-assessment, all based on the measurements that we take with the Keysight equipment."
"Its 4 port has true differential with quite a few de-embedding features. It goes up to 40 GHz with high performance."
"It's a one-stop solution. It does everything we need. The combined functionality is the biggest benefit."
"It has the highest bandwidth and resolution on the market."
"Their software and hardware are integrated, so we don't have to spend a lot of time processing the data."
"The user interface is absolutely great. It creates an easy working environment because it has well-integrated hardware and software. So, it is easy to use."
"Most of the features are on the screen itself. The naming convention makes it very easy to understand what is needed."
"Because their view is a graphical user interface (GUI), it's very easy to program the tool."
"It saves me a lot of time. You can click a button and walk away, basically doing a week's worth of work in 20 minutes, it's a pretty good time saver."
"The user interface is very good, easy to understand, and easy to operate."
"I can automate a lot of testing very quickly. With just a push of a button, I can test hundreds of different scenarios without having to do all that manual testing myself."
"It helps us to save on our investment with a lot of the stuff that we buy, as we can find defects quickly."
"The integrated lateral view makes it easier to develop your test systems and test software flow."
"Sometimes, it's quite hard to get the technical support to come onsite. If we run into a hardware, measurement, or software issue, we may have to wait a long time for them to come."
"There is a learning curve depends on the client that I am working with. E.g., if I'm working with a client, and they have a test and measurement equipment company, when I go to another company, the new company may not be using the same model."
"There is room for improvement in the upgradeability of the products. When we buy a platform, we would like that platform to survive two or three generations, because it is very expensive. If they could provide a more modular type of design, so if we want to upgrade one functionality then we could upgrade that module, rather than all the equipment, that would be helpful. That modularity is something we would like to see."
"I would like to see the possibility of interacting with the software, new features for software post-processing. For example, once you're done measuring, it would be nice to be able to generate some data starting from the measurement data."
"Everybody is looking for more automation support, so that if they can incorporate more protocols. It makes it easier."
"The technical support is okay, but sometimes they are on a different page than us. If it is something wrong with the scope, they are okay. However, if something technical goes wrong, like the calibration, it is hard to get the information that we need because it is hard to share everything and explain all the measurements in real-time."
"While the user interface is good with respect to instrumentation, but with respect to documentation, I do not like it. Its documentation is slightly bad. It was not organized properly. The way it's organized is very difficult to understand, so it takes lot of time to search for one thing in particular."
"I would like more customized functions, so we can do the programming and definitions ourselves. There is an automation flow to capture this signal, and we would like to do this ourselves."
"There is a learning curve. It might take a year if you're not well-versed with it."
"I would like to see more of a tasking user base and documentation inside the instrument itself, rather than having to go online for it."
"The software has room for improvement."
"It took a good year until I felt proficient using the product, as It is a complex program. Their newest version has a less steep learning curve, but back closer to 15 years ago, it was a lot less user-friendly."
"I would like to have more RF. They're going that way, but still there is some work that they have to do."
"National Instruments needs to be focusing on its 5G RF applications. They are aware of this, and that's where most of their R&D is going."
"I would like more speed and a reduction in size."
"There is a learning curve. It takes one to two months to get acclimated to the tool."
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Keysight Oscilloscopes is ranked 3rd in Oscilloscopes while National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is ranked 7th in Oscilloscopes. Keysight Oscilloscopes is rated 8.4, while National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Keysight Oscilloscopes writes "We are able to easily record and save our test setup". On the other hand, the top reviewer of National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes writes "With just a push of a button, I can test hundreds of different scenarios". Keysight Oscilloscopes is most compared with Tektronix Oscilloscopes, Siglent, RIGOL Oscilloscopes, Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes and Yokogawa Oscilloscopes, whereas National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is most compared with Tektronix Oscilloscopes.
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