Installation
Connecting Your Oscilloscope to a Computer
You may want to document your work for future reference. Instead of saving screen images and waveform data to a USB flash
drive and generating a report later, y ou may want to get a copy of the image or wa veform data directly from a remote PC for
analysis. You may also want to control an oscilloscope at a remote location from your computer. (See page 214, Saving a Screen
Image.) (See page 216, Saving and Recalling Waveform Data.)
Two ways to con nect your oscilloscope to a c omputer are through the VISA (Virtual Instrument Software Arch itecture) drivers
and the e*Scope Web-enabled tools. Use VISA to co mmunicate with your oscillosco pe from yo ur com puter through a software
application. Use 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 o r Ethernet , to connect the computer to the oscilloscope.
To set up VISA commu nications 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 page
(www.tektronix.com).
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