CONFIGURATION 
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Remote Control Interface 
The Remote control interface section describes how to set up the 
USB interface for PC connection. Remote control command details 
are described in the GDS-1000A-U Programming Manual. 
 
1.  Connect the USB cable to 
the USB slave port. 
2.  When the PC asks for the USB driver, select 
dso_vpo.inf V1.06 or above for Windows 
XP/Vista/7(32/64 bit) which are downloadable 
from the GW website, www.gwinstek.com, 
GDS-1000A-U product corner. 
3.  On the PC, activate a terminal application such 
as Hyper Terminal. To check the COM port 
No., see the Device Manager in the PC. For 
WindowsXP, select Control panel ā System ā 
Hardware tab. 
4.  Run this query command via the terminal 
application. 
*idn? 
This command should return the manufacturer, 
model number, serial number, and firmware 
version in the following format. 
GW, GDS-1152A-U, XXXXXXX, V1.00 
5.  Configuring the command interface is 
complete. Refer to the programming manual for 
the remote commands and other details.