HAMEG

HAMEG Instruments GmbH is a German, belonging to the Rohde & Schwarz group companies to develop and manufacture of laboratory instruments ( such as oscilloscopes ), headquartered in Mainhausen.

History

The company was founded in 1957 by Karl Hartmann in Frankfurt am Main under the name Hameg GmbH. The name is derived from Hartmann- measuring instruments. The first product was a 5 - MHz single-channel oscilloscope. The company's founder retired in 2005, for reasons of age, and sold the company to Rohde & Schwarz. The name was changed to Hameg Instruments GmbH.

At that time entertained HAMEG offices in Chemnitz ( Oszilloskopeentwicklung ) and Münchenbernsdorf ( PCB Assembly ), as well as a sales subsidiary in France ( HAMEG France Sarl ). The end of 2010 HAMEG gave up the manufacturing sites Mainhausen and Münchenbernsdorf and produced since the Rohde & Schwarz Vimperk plant in the Czech Republic. Other parts of the business such as development ( Main Hausen and Chemnitz), product management, sales, customer service and quality assurance remained independent.

Since 2012, Hameg products are also sold through the distribution network of Rohde & Schwarz. Since then, the product logo is used, which makes the membership of Rohde & Schwarz clearly.

Products

Among the products of HAMEG include analog oscilloscopes, mixed signal oscilloscopes (MSO ), spectrum analyzers, function generators, RF generators, classic bench power supplies, programmable power supplies and modular laboratory measurement components. The company primarily serves the lower market segment and is therefore especially in electronics laboratories, production monitoring, but also in schools and universities represented.

In the area of ​​Oscilloscopes one was very long convinced of the advantages of analog technology at HAMEG. So HAMEG wrote in 2004 at the launch of a new series of so-called CombiScopes - ie devices that have both an analog and a digital mode - that " DSOs [ ... ] basically analog oscilloscopes can not replace " can. 2007 built HAMEG with the HM2008 - as on the adjacent picture to see - an oscilloscope that included both an analog and a digital part and mixed-signal functions ( 4 digital channels).

The end of 2008 HAMEG presented at the electronica fair in Munich, the first true digital Oscilloscope with TFT screen. These devices, like all then featured devices on mixed-signal functions ( 8 or 16 digital channels), and the ability to decode serial buses such as I2C, SPI, CAN and LIN. For devices with TFT screen HAMEG skipped so that the generation of the classic, pure DSOs without MSO functions. 2012 had HAMEG eleven MSO units and an analog oscilloscope in the range. In the fall of 2012 HAMEG announced its wish to no analog oscilloscopes more soon. Among other things, there are problems in the procurement of cathode ray tubes have played a role. In February 2013 HAMEG presented at the trade fair Embedded World in Nuremberg, a new mixed-signal oscilloscope series with up to 500 MHz bandwidth before; the bandwidth can be limited artificially in these devices by software license.