A portable electronic test device and a method of using same

Abstract

The invention relates to a portable electronic test device which includes a casing which houses therein at least six discrete electronic instruments including an oscilloscope, a spectrum analyser, a logic analyser, a waveform generator, a digital pattern generator and a power supply. The invention extends to a method of assessing an operator's proficiency to use the electronic test device by: crotographically authenticating the operator prior to permitting the operator to use the electronic device using an electronic tag coupled to the electronic device; automatically evaluating, using a computing device, an assignment carried out by the operator using the electronic device; and electronically storing a result of the evaluation on the tag in order to keep track of the operator's proficiency in using the electronic device.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.