Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Steven M. Hartman" <[email protected]> · Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:37:03 -0500

Benjamin Franksen wrote:

Has anyone already done something like that? If yes, which
manufacturers/devices are you using? Has anyone experience with programming
USB? Could the protocol be reverse engineered?

We looked into using USB to interface some Tek scopes which were

already on hand (these are normal, but low-end scopes with front

panel, etc). The implementation was on linux with a usbtmc kernel

module, plus asyn, steamdevice, sscan, etc.

But we determined that the USB interface (at least on these

scopes) was too slow to be of much use. This plus the difficulty

of short cable lengths for USB led us to decide this wasn't worth

pursuing.

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Steven Hartman
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System