Research Update: Free NIST software enhances scope timing

Researchers at the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) have developed a technique for constructing an alternative, and more accurate, reduced-jitter oscilloscope timebase. The free software, which is suitable for new and older units, looks at both the signal under measurement and the two offset reference waves that an external source generates. The correction method can correct time records and provide an estimate of the residual timing error. Details and the timebase-correction package are available at the project's Web site, www.boulder.nist.gov/div815/HSM_Project/Software.htm.

National Institute of Standards and Technology, www.nist.gov.