BTW, if all is inside the card, then Rigol has created a RPi style scope!!!!
This should be the HW platform for those that are interested in assembling/compiling their own software solution with their own custom OS!
Interesting...
So, to all Rigol bashers, the path is here to stop complaining about their developers and start putting the effort.
Being like a RPi is huge IMO, and will allow custom applications and hacks to be developed by many folks with lesser software development skills, like ourselves. We've had some success in developing custom hardware and software solutions with the RPi by leveraging off the enormous RPi software knowledge base.
As we've mentioned before, these modern DSO/MSOs are data collection and display platforms in disguise as DSO/MSOs. These new Rigol HDs remove the disguise and revels the basic raw data data collection innards for those folks that want to tinker with such
This also bodes well with the necessary high quantity usage of the custom chip-set to cover the extensive NRE cost to develop such.
Might be a very clever business plan by Rigol, initially make the huge investment in the custom chip-set applicable over a broad range of instruments. Then develop various hardware implementations with these chip-sets including one DSO that is very cost friendly (large chip-set usage) and make these easily hackable, almost as Open-Source, and allow the end users to assist in the software debug and evolution with the added benefit of newly developed applications by those very end users!!
This save's considerable present software costs in debugging and firmware updates, and places the "fixes" and "updates" directly within the hands of capable end users to "assist" in such. The "Product" is released early to generate cash flow and create a core user base to provide the "assistance"!! Just the opposite of Tier One OEMs (and Siglent) for example, where a major cost factor in the price is software maintenance/updates and fixes, and considerable effort is placed in the inital software development/refinement/debugging before releasing the end Product.
Clever business model, hope this works, it certainly did with the RPi
Best,