Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Nicholas P. DiMonte" <[email protected]> · Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:51:33 -0500

Andrew,
Tektronix would never give us any information on the VXI-11. When I
first developed this support, it was for GPIB, but then Eric Norum
developed ASYN support for vxi-11 which allowed us to network these
scopes. Maybe Eric could shed more light on this.
The programmers manual from Tektronix website is what I used for both
3000 & 5000 scopes.
There should be an example from the download which shows how to setup
the vxi11 for each scope in the st.cmd file. Just a simple
"vxi11Configure" command for each scope being defined.
Nick
On 7/8/2010 3:59 PM, Andrew Wagner wrote:

Thanks Nicholas,
The programmers manual for the MSO 4000 can be downloaded from the Tektronix website. Is there more documentation out there for communicating with Tektronix equipment. For instance, the programers manual tells the reader nothing about vxi-11. Your code is the best documentation so far.
Cheers,
Andrew

On Jul 8, 2010, at 8:18 AM, Nicholas P. DiMonte wrote:

Andrew,
The TDS3000 support does not support the digital channels of MSO4000 series, but may work with the analog inputs with some minor changes to the device support. The TDS3000 also includes the TDS5000 series, so you can use that as a template to develop the analog side of the MSO4000 scopes. It looks like the MSO4000 follows most of the basic commands used in both the 3000/5000 series. The digital inputs I'm sure can be implemented, but you may want to create a whole new support for MSO4000 series, which the TDS3000 support would be a good starting point.
Nick DiMonte
APS, Argonne
On 7/8/2010 1:26 AM, Andrew Wagner wrote:

Hey everyone,
Has anyone written driver/device support for the the Tektronix MSO 4000 series of oscilloscopes? My model is specifically the 4054. Is this at all similar to the TDS 3000 for which support exists? I'm also interested in support for the Rhode&Schwarz ZVL Network analyzer. How generic are the commands that Tektronix, for instance, uses? Has someone written a base class with the common commands supported?
Cheers,
Andrew Wagner

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
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