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Connecting to DPO5000 by Tektronix in Python

Instrument Card

The MSO/DPO5000 Series offers the industry’s most complete visualization of signals, providing fast insight into the real operation of your device. Tektronix proprietary FastAcq™ technology delivers a fast waveform capture – greater than 250,000 waveforms per second – that enables you to see glitches and other infrequent transients within seconds, revealing the true nature of device faults. A digital phosphor display with color intensity grading shows the history of a signal’s activity by using color to identify areas of the signal that occur more frequently, providing a visual display of just how often anomalies occur.

DPO5000

Device Specification: here

Manufacturer card: TEKTRONIX

TEKTRONIX

Tektronix, Inc., historically widely known as Tek, is an American company best known for manufacturing test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment.

  • Headquarters: USA
  • Yearly Revenue (millions, USD): 5800
  • Vendor Website: here

Demo: Measure signal width and phase with a Tektronix oscilloscope

Connect to the DPO5000 in Python

OSCILLOSCOPES > TEKTRONIX

PROTOCOLS > SCPI

Here is an example Python script that uses Qcodes to connect to a DPO5000 Oscilloscope:

import qcodes as qc
from qcodes.instrument_drivers.tektronix.Tektronix_DPO7000xx import TektronixDPO7000xx


# Connect to the oscilloscope
oscilloscope = TektronixDPO7000xx("oscilloscope", "TCPIP::1.2.3.4::INSTR")


# Print the available channels
print(oscilloscope.channel.names)


# Set the time per division
oscilloscope.channel1.scale(0.1)  # Set channel 1 time per division to 0.1s


# Acquire and plot a waveform
waveform = oscilloscope.channel1.waveform()
waveform.plot()


# Close the connection to the oscilloscope
oscilloscope.close()

This script connects to the oscilloscope using the IP address “1.2.3.4” and creates an instance of the TektronixDPO7000xx driver. It then prints the names of the available channels, sets the time per division for channel 1 to 0.1s, acquires a waveform from channel 1, and plots the waveform. Finally, it closes the connection to the oscilloscope.