ThunderScope

Low-Cost Four Channel 1GSPS Oscilliscope using Thunderbolt/USB4 to stream data to PC for processing and display.

Join our development discord server

We are now at #thunderscope:matrix.org on matrix or #thunderscope:libera.chat on IRC as well!

Some older long-form documentation is on the Hackaday.io project page

Get the hardware through our crowdsupply page when we launch:

Catch up with these videos on the project:

TEARDOWN 2023 - Open Sourcing the Secrets of Oscilloscope Design

Hackaday Supercon 2023 - A Circuit to Measure Circuits: How do Oscilloscopes do it?

Teardown Session 39: ThunderScope

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Baseboard Hardware

Revision	Label	Status	Location
Rev.1	N/A	DEPRECATED	Hardware/Altium/Thunderscope_E
Rev.2	N/A	DEPRECATED	Hardware/Altium/Thunderscope_Rev2
Rev.3	Alpha	TO BE DEPRECATED	Hardware/Altium/Thunderscope_Rev3
Rev.4	Beta 1	ACTIVE	Hardware/Altium/Thunderscope_Rev4
Rev.4.1	Beta 2	IN PRODUCTION	Hardware/Altium/Thunderscope_Rev4.1

FPGA Module Hardware

Revision	Status	Location
TE0712	ACTIVE	Trenz Electronics TE0712 Module, 100T or 200T Varients
Rev.1	DEPRECATED	Hardware/Altium/FPGA_Module
Rev.2	IN PRODUCTION	Hardware/Altium/FPGA_Module_Rev2 or Hardware/KiCad/FPGA_Module_Rev2

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Firmware

Developers with Rev.1 mainboard and TE0712 module should use dso_top_TE0712 or dso_top_TE0712_unsigned

Rev.2 mainboard can only be used with our custom FPGA module and dso_top_fpga_module_rev2_unsigned firmware

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Software

Our primary software is TS.net, which takes in data from the hardware, triggers on it, and sends the triggered data over to (ng/gl)scopeclient

Dependences for build scripts on Linux: apt-get install -y dotnet6 apt-get install -y libgdiplus

On Windows, should just need Visual Studio with the C# plugins