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Installation
Connecting Your Oscilloscope to a Computer
Connect your oscilloscope directly to a computer to let the PC analyze your data, collect screen images, or to control your
oscilloscope. (See page 164,
Saving a Screen Image .) (See page 165, Saving and Recalling Waveform and Trace Data .)
Three ways to connect your oscilloscope to a computer are through the VISA drivers, the e*Scope Web-enabled tools, and a
socket server. Use VISA to communicate with your oscilloscope from your computer through a software application, such as
Tektronix OpenChoice Desktop®. Use e*Scope to communicate with your oscilloscope through a Web browser, such as
Microsoft Internet Explorer. For best results, use a browser that supports html 5.
Using VISA
VISA lets you use your MS-Windows computer to acquire data from your oscilloscope for use in an analysis package that
runs on your PC, such as Microsoft Excel, National Instruments LabVIEW, Tektronix OpenChoice Desktop software, or a
program of your own creation. You can use a common communications connection, such as USB, Ethernet, or GPIB,
to connect the computer to the oscilloscope.
For VISA, load the VISA drivers on your computer. Also, load your application, such as OpenChoice Desktop. You will fi nd
the drivers and OpenChoice Desktop software on the appropriate CD that comes with your oscilloscope or at the Tektronix
software
fi nder Web page (www.tektronix.com).
Using e*Scope
With e*Scope, you can access and control any Internet-connected MDO3000 Series oscilloscope from a web browser
on your computer.
Connect the oscilloscope to your network using the LAN port. The built-in LXI web interface (Core 2011, Version 1.4)
provides network con
fi guration information, which you can edit and customize. It also provides remote instrument control
through the e*Scope user interface. There you can control instrument settings, save screen images, save instrument data or
setups, and much more. Do all this through a password-protectable web-interface.
To set up VISA communications between your oscilloscope and a computer:
1. Load the VISA drivers on your computer.
Also, load your application, such as
OpenChoice Desktop.
You will
fi nd the drivers and OpenChoice
Desktop software on the appropriate CD
that comes with your oscilloscope or at
the Tektronix software
fi nder Web page
(www.tektronix.com).
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