SmartScope: Multi-Platform Measuring Instrument

Most USB oscilloscopes have been designed for use in combination with a Windows or Linux PC. The SmartScope is an exception to this: it works just as well with an Android tablet, an iPad or an OS X system. The software has been designed to make the user interface appear identical across all platforms. We’ve tried one out on a PC and a tablet.

The SmartScope from the young Belgian company LabNation is a universal, two-channel, USB oscilloscope with many features. The accompanying user-interface software is compatible with virtually all computer platforms (Windows, Android, OS X, iOS, Linux) and is optimized for both mouse and touch interfaces. An extensive review of the SmartScope was featured in the July & August 2015 issue of Elektor magazine.

The SmartScope designed by the young Belgian company LabNation is — to our knowledge — the only oscilloscope that works with all popular operating systems: Windows 7/8, Linux, OS X, iOS (jailbroken) and Android 4.0+. So the software can run on a standard PC or laptop, but also on a tablet or smartphone. The control interface is specifically designed to operate with touch-screen or mouse and is equipped with various software decoders (such as I2C and SPI) for decoding digital signals.