RIGOL Digital Oscilloscopes and Company Profile

The main office and the research & development center of the company are located in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China (800,000 square feet campus). Besides, in May 2014 they launched a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and engineering campus in Suzhou (440,000 square feet manufacturing facility). RIGOL Technologies also has branches in Shanghai and Taipei (China), Tokyo (Japan), Portland (USA), and Munich (Germany). RIGOL has 10 sales offices in China and more than 150 of its distributors or representatives offer products and services in over 80 countries and regions worldwide. RIGOL currently employs more than 500 people in R&D, sales, and management staff.

The manufacturer is certified according to ISO9001:2000 Quality Management System and ISO14001:2004 Environmental Management System. It is China's certified National Hi-Tech/Innovation Company, Provincial Enterprises Technology Center, and the only official LXI (LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation) Standard Class C laboratory in Asia. All company products are certified and marked with CE (European Union quality and safety standard) and TUV (IEC, VDE, European safety standards).

RIGOL Trademark has been registered in China, the United States, Japan, and Madrid System member countries, etc. – totally over 90 countries and regions worldwide. RIGOL has gained international patents and computer operating system software copyrights for its developments. The company has applied for more than 500 patents, most of them were granted.

Milestones of RIGOL Success Story

• 1998 — RIGOL Technologies, Inc. was founded in Beijing.
• 2000 — RIGOL was included in the list of high tech companies of China.
• 2004 — Worldwide-known Agilent Technologies concluded a contract with RIGOL for the production and delivery of Agilent DSO3000 series oscilloscopes to market.
• 2006 — RIGOL received ISO9001:2000 Certification.
• 2006 — RIGOL became the world’s second largest manufacturer of low-end digital oscilloscopes.
• 2006 — RIGOL won prestigious "Annual Innovation Award" from EDN China for the development of DS1000 series digital oscilloscopes along with Local Innovation Company Award.
• 2007 — RIGOL was invited to form the committee writing China National Standard GB/T 15289-07 of 'General Specification and Test Method for Digital Storage Oscilloscopes'.
• 2007 — RIGOL received the ISO14001:2004 Environmental Protection & Management System Certification.
• 2007 — The company opens R&D center in Shanghai.
• 2007 — RIGOL received the EDN China Innovation Award again.
• 2007 — RIGOL received the CMIF and Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission Advanced Achievement Award.
• 2008 — Continuous R&D made RIGOL capable of producing equipment complying with LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation (LXI) Standard.
• 2008 — RIGOL was certified as the Municipal Technology Center of Beijing.
• 2009 — RIGOL DS1052E and DS1102E oscilloscopes won the “Product of the Year” award from the “Electronic Products” Magazine in the United States.
• 2009 — RIGOL became the first official LXI-C class Test House in Asia.
• 2009 — RIGOL became the world's fifth company offering digital storage oscilloscopes with 1 GHz bandwidth (RIGOL DS6000 series).
• 2009 — RIGOL office was established in United States.
• 2011 — RIGOL was honoured with one of the R&D 100 Awards, also called the "Oscars of Innovation", for the development of the RIGOL DS6104 Digital Oscilloscope.
• 2011 — RIGOL opened a European office in Munich, Germany.
• 2012 — RIGOL DG4000 Series Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generators won the American R&D 100 Products of the Year Award.
• 2014 — RIGOL opened a new manufacturing campus in Suzhou, about 50 miles from Shanghai. It houses all equipment manufacturing operations as well as logistics, dormitories, conference facilities and expansion of RIGOL R&D team.
• 2015 — won the National Torch Plan project.
• 2015 — opened an office in Japan.
• 2017 — RIGOL released the digital oscilloscope core chipset (Phoneix) with its own intellectual properties, the oscilloscope UltraVision II technology platform and the real-time spectrum analyzer UltraReal technology platform.
• 2017 — RIGOL president Wang Yue was selected as “National Science and Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Talent”.
• 2017 — RIGOL successfully entered the Ministry of Education Industry-University Cooperation and Education Project.
• 2018 — launched China's first real-time spectrum analyzer (RSA 5000/RSA 3000 series).
• 2018 — RIGOL Academy was formally established.
• 2018 — RIGOL Lab passed CNAS certification.
• 2019 — RIGOL RSA Real-Time Spectrum Analyzer Series is upgraded, vector signal analysis software (VSA) and EMI measurement application software debut.
• 2019 — RIGOL held large-scale events in succession, and the China Distributors Conference, Supplier Conference, and Digital Marketing Distributor Conference were held in succession.

RIGOL Oscilloscopes Development

During the recent years digital oscilloscopy has undergone a new stage of modernization. While the low-end segment remains rather stable, the middle-end and top-end class oscilloscopes tend to widen the range with models that had no analogues till now. Meanwhile, some models with most advanced characteristics at the time they were released, now took their place among middle class products.

So, how does RIGOL model range look like?

The basic models of E and D series (DS1052E, DS1102E, DS1052D, DS1102D) generally have the same platform as the older and sometime very popular models with C and CD index (DS1022C,  DS1042C, DS1062C, DS1102C, DS1022CD,  DS1042CD, DS1062CD, DS1102CD). However, in E/D series the manufacturer omitted 25 MHz and 40 MHz bandwidth models – the basic models of the 1000th series have 50 MHz and more operation frequency range.  Oscilloscopes with “D” marking also have a digital signal multiplexor and have 16 digital logic channels each of them displayed in a common time grid.

The use of a logic analyzer in the scope has started a new approach to the capabilities of a modern oscilloscope. That is how a new oscilloscope type appeared – it is called a Mixed Signal Oscilloscope. Apart from analog inputs, this kind of scopes has digital inputs allowing you to display the logic level diagrams in a common time grid from several digital channels at once. Previously, a separate device called a Logic Analyzer could perform this task, but it is not needed any more.

RIGOL DS1000E Series

RIGOL DS1000D Series

The recent years have brought new results of continuous R&D performed by the RIGOL team. One of the successful examples is a modern Digital Oscilloscope Series – RIGOL DS1000Z. These are new affordable devices designed to meet the most of user’s applications. This 4-channel series is characterized by its innovative technology, industry leading specifications, powerful trigger functions and broad analysis capabilities. The DS1000Z series includes 50 MHz, 70 MHz or 100 MHz versions. All models are equipped with a 7-inch display. One more advantage is a RIGOL's UltraVision technology for advanced operation. Together with the optional analysis, decoding, deep memory, and integrated 2-channel waveform generator (DS1000Z-S models only) you get a powerful 4-channel scope at an exceptional price.

RIGOL DS1000Z Series

Along with the previous series RIGOL released one more similar scope model line - the MSO1000Z Series. These mixed signal oscilloscopes come in 70 or 100 MHz versions only. Apart from 4 analog channels they are empowered with 16 digital channels for Mixed Signal analysis. The manufacturer has implemented a better operation algorithm in these devices than in RIGOL DS1000D series. One more advantage of these models is that they have a built-in digital signal decoder.

RIGOL MSO1000Z Series

RIGOL DS2000A Series

Recently RIGOL Technologies, Inc. have released another interesting series of oscilloscopes – DS2000A. These digital oscilloscopes offer bandwidths up to 300 MHz and a high sample rate, long record length, wide vertical range, low noise floor for better signal fidelity and much more. Models of the series are available with a built-in 25 MHz 2-channel generator. It saves both equipment costs and desktop space by eliminating the need for an additional signal generator.

The top end models are represented with a DS4000 series of oscilloscopes. This series is represented with dual- and four-channel models with a bandwidth from 100 MHz to 500 MHz. The rest of technical specifications are also of high level: up to 4 GSa/s sample rate, up to 140 million points memory depth, up to 110,000 waveforms per second waveform capture rate. Only the RIGOL DS6000 series oscilloscopes have better characteristics than these models.

RIGOL DS4000 Series

One more addition to the 4000th series was the model line of mixed signal digital oscilloscopes with 16-channel logic analyzer.

RIGOL MSO4000 Series

Currently RIGOL has reached the limit of sampling rate – 5 GSa/s in RIGOL DS6000 series of oscilloscopes (DS6062, DS6064, DS6102, DS6104). This limit will not be greatly exceeded for some time due to the use of existing technologies. The same situation may be observed concerning the 1 GHz bandwidth. However, any time in the nearest future we may expect a new and more speedy platform to appear.

The abovementioned series is a top one in RIGOL oscilloscopes product range due to its considerably high parameters, notwithstanding that it was released a long time ago.

RIGOL DS6000 Series

Some people still try to perform small repair works without special precise instrumentation, while service centers and repair workshops usually invest money and buy the required set of tools to achieve good results and maintain their reputation. If you are a professional in the electronics repair industry, you should have a reliable instrument that will help save your time and make your assessments more precise. That is the reason you should sooner or later come up to an obvious conclusion — you need to buy yourself an oscilloscope. It’s only up to you to decide which class and price category tool you need. However, it you seek for a fully-functional scope with all up-to-date capabilities and features, as well as with a very good quality-to-price ratio, you should definitely consider buying one of the RIGOL’s series oscilloscopes. These devices gained worldwide popularity and proved reliable.

Good luck with your measurements!

Toolboom Team