Installation
Connecting Your Oscilloscope to a Computer
You may want to document your work for future reference. Instea d of sav ing screen images and waveform data to a CompactFlash
storage device or USB flash d rive, and then generating a report later, you may want to send the image or wave form data directly to
a remo te PC for analysis. You may also want to control an oscilloscope at a r emote location from your compute r. (See page 240,
Saving a Screen Image.) (See page 242, Saving and Recalling Waveform Dat a.)
Two ways to connect your oscilloscope to a com puter are through the VISA drivers and the e*Scope Web-enabled tools. Use
VISA to communicate with you r oscilloscope from your computer through a software application. U se e*Scope to communicate
with your oscilloscope through a Web browser.
Using VISA
VISA lets you use your MS-Windows computer to acquire da ta from your oscilloscope for use in an analysis package that runs on
your PC, such as Microsoft Excel, National Instruments LabVIEW, or a program of your own creation . You can use a common
communications connection, such as USB, Ethernet, or GPIB, to conne ct the computer to the oscilloscope.
To set up VISA communications between your oscilloscope and a comput er:
1. Load the VISA drivers on your computer.
You will find the drivers on the appropriate
CD that comes with your oscilloscope or
at the Tektronix software finder Web pag e
(www.tektronix.com).
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