Tektronix MSO2024B teardown

[kilohercas]

http://youtu.be/O7yuHvA1skU?list=UUDBSFAz0IZN4Jjs07bH1XqQ

MSO2024B teardown

[AndyC_772]

I was really surprised to see that MPC870 processor, it's a dinosaur!

PowerPC core, 133 MHz core / 66 MHz SDRAM memory (no DDR capability), and the internal peripheral set is designed for networking and communications. If you wanted to build a product with a couple of 10/100M Ethernet ports and an RS232 interface ten years ago then it was a good choice at the time, but I'm amazed to see it in a relatively new design.

[kilohercas]

Well, MSOX2000 is much better choice, but MSO2024B have some advantages, major will be easy application module hack, with 0.50$ EEPROM