The growing application of touch-screen technologies for Man Machine Interface is the main driving force for this project development.

Oscilloscopes suffered huge changes in operation principles and functionalities but regarding interface between machine and operator very little has changed. As so, this instrument will be the target of the implementation proposed in this research assignment.  So, the main goal is to change the interface of a common instrument in order to make it more intuitive and pleasant to the user.

All Electronic Engineers, at some point of their professional careers, needed to use an oscilloscope to analyze signals, provided by electronic circuitry during hardware debugging, for example. Normally this type of instruments is time-consuming since there is a need for adaptation to the command panel before a good signal sample can be achieved. With touch-screen technologies this could be easily putted away since there is a possibility to apply intuitive gestures, for signal handling, and interactive menus on screen, saving precious space that could be used for expanding the visible area with out having to increase the size of the equipment. A good example is the i-phone, produced by apple, where a normal size phone as a big screen regarding similar size phones and in the matter of interface functionality the possibilities are enormous.