Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

We've had some success with ZTec scopes.  They run EPICS
on the boxes, allowing you to run a linux flash utility to update the
startup file which sets the PV names, and they provide a minimal EDM gui.
We didn't have to use any windows software to configure them.

more flexible triggering and sampling options than our dedicated

this use, but while you could use it with a laptop for portable diagnostics,
a small test scope is much more user friendly.

Regards,
- Bruce

On 02/03/2011 04:32 AM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:

We are interested in evaluating USB-scopes (rack-mounted, no front panel)
for continuous signal measurements, as these are a lot cheaper than regular
scopes (with display and front panel controls). However, it is unclear
whether remote access to such scopes necessarily means using proprietary
(vendor supplied) software under Windows. Ideally, we would like to have an
asyn driver for USB (or some more specific protocol over USB), and then use
stream device support on top of that. Failing that, we would have to explore
other possibilities, like running an IOC on a Windows machine with a special
device support that talks with some (proprietary) vendor library.

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?

Cheers
Ben

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