An oscilloscope is a device used for observing electrical signals at a specific time interval and is indispensable for any electrical engineer. Since the price is normally quite high, we made it ourselves as a part of our final work.
We made a three-channel oscilloscope with a differential input and an adjustable voltage range from 0,5 to 330 V. It uses a simple trigger, which is one of the most important functions of the oscilloscope. Trigger notifies microcontroller to start sampling when the input signal crosses the voltage reference, which helps with observing fast signals. The oscilloscope has a 16-bit sampling resolution and an adjustable capture speed, which reaches up to 1 MS/s.
To reduce the cost of the project we used the STM32H750B-DK microcontroller development kit, because we already had it at home. Although this development kit is a bit more expensive, it could be replaced with any STMicroelectronics board where the project would need to be slightly modified. We connected an additional printed circuit board to it, which cost approximately 25 €.
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