We performed a comparison between National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes and Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Oscilloscopes solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It helps us to save on our investment with a lot of the stuff that we buy, as we can find defects quickly."
"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."
"Most of the features are on the screen itself. The naming convention makes it very easy to understand what is needed."
"The learning curve was really fast, which was also the reason for saving a lot on the budget."
"It makes programming simpler."
"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."
"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."
"It is a more efficient, easier way to do measurements."
"The user interface is pretty good. Right now, it is more than what we expected. It's easy and fast to use."
"The noise floor for reference clocks is pretty low, so this instrument is able to measure it where others cannot."
"The product is quite reliable and straightforward to use. Typically, there are no households that we have to set up."
"The instrument has a wide bandwidth. You can sweep across a wide range of frequencies."
"The most valuable features are its wide bandwidth and 8 ports."
"I have been able to do quality measurements that I have been unable to achieve with the equipment from some other vendors."
"Most of the features offered are free, like serial data analyzers or jitter measurements."
"I would like to see them increase the productivity and auxiliary functions."
"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 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."
"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."
"There is a learning curve. It takes one to two months to get acclimated to the tool."
"I would like to have more RF. They're going that way, but still there is some work that they have to do."
"I'm against the Windows-based tools. Now everybody is running scopes, VNAs, and all their tools based on Windows. I don't want to see that in the future."
"We would like to have autotracking and auto error tracking for regression testing. We would like to know what error happened, when it happened, and during what scenario (such as setup), because right now we have to manually look at when it happened."
"The size of the unit is too big, too heavy. It has to be made more portable and smaller."
"The depth the the user GUI could be improved. It is a bit deep for new users. During the first two weeks we spent a lot of time finding the tabs."
"The user interface could be improved, e.g., the documentation on the menus. I have to open a separate document to figure out the functionality sometimes."
"There was a learning curve. Their use interface and the way that their products work are not intuitive to somebody who switches from other vendors."
"It would be good if they would try to automate most things because it has more pressing buttons and repetitive work. If there were automation scripts that they could provide, that would improve things."
"The Rohde & Schwarz user interface is very oriented towards drop and drag functions on the screen. Some of those are just not obvious how to use. You have to have somebody get you over the hump."
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National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is ranked 7th in Oscilloscopes while Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes is ranked 5th in Oscilloscopes. National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is rated 8.6, while Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes writes "With just a push of a button, I can test hundreds of different scenarios". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes writes "The ability to have both the time domain and frequency domain, where the frequency domain is a very broad spectral plot, is extremely valuable". National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes is most compared with Tektronix Oscilloscopes and Keysight Oscilloscopes, whereas Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes is most compared with Tektronix Oscilloscopes, Keysight Oscilloscopes, Siglent, RIGOL Oscilloscopes and Teledyne LeCroy Oscilloscopes. See our National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes vs. Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes report.
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