We performed a comparison between Keysight Oscilloscopes and National Instruments (NI) 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."Because they're such a big industry standard name, their products are standardized across many customers, which is why people own these products."
"While it depends on the field, the learning curve is usually really quick."
"The customer support is very good. If you need an application to do any measurement, you can easily get a hold of people to help you with it. This is a whole ecosystem."
"I use the serial decoder for the serial interfaces, which helps me debug my product quickly."
"It's easier to automate and connect with multiple devices, and at the same time with laptops."
"It can go up to a very high frequency, up to 120 gigahertz. And the user interface is really good. It's really easy to navigate."
"The user interface is simple and straightforward, so I can easily measure frequency, time, and other complex measurements."
"The user interface is very user-friendly. You can use a lot of functions in their scope and will provide them for you. You can update the scope's software by asking Keysight to update the software when you want."
"It makes programming simpler."
"The user interface is very good. Their boards are reliable. We buy boards from them, they are reliable, and we don't have problems with them."
"It took us less than a week to get integrated into the solution, which is very fast."
"The integrated lateral view makes it easier to develop your test systems and test software flow."
"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."
"We haven't need technical support yet because all documentation is well done and there."
"Because their view is a graphical user interface (GUI), it's very easy to program the tool."
"Most of the features are on the screen itself. The naming convention makes it very easy to understand what is needed."
"I would like to see better post-processing data utility tools like a de-embedding."
"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."
"We tried to connect multiple computers with a KVM switch but we could not do that using Keysight VNA. Keysight VNA comes with the PC inside it. We have other equipment as well, and we tried to combine it so that we had one monitor to control everything. With Keysight we could not do it. That's something of an inconvenience."
"I would like them to build in more high-speed functions, such as FEC or PCIe, built into the array. PERT to be built-in for more specific product call. These would make our lives much easier."
"Every component has a manufacturing tolerance. I hope Keysight software can help with the tolerance loss in manufacturing variance, which can be ten percent or five percent. In the real world, we cannot fire a really perfect test with very smooth impedance. I would like to see Keysight provide a solution to solve the issue of loss of manufacturing variance."
"They can improve, but I don't know how."
"The user interface is not that good. It's not very intuitive. It's functional, but it's not designed for ease of operation. It's designed for functionality."
"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."
"I would like more speed and a reduction in size."
"The software has room for improvement."
"There is a learning curve. It takes one to two months to get acclimated to the tool."
"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."
"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."
"There is a learning curve. It might take a year if you're not well-versed with it."
"I would like to have more RF. They're going that way, but still there is some work that they have to do."
"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."
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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. See our Keysight Oscilloscopes vs. National Instruments (NI) Oscilloscopes report.
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