Data Acquisition Toolbox

Making Measurements

You can make measurements on the acquired data with the Measurements panel. The Oscilloscope provides many predefined measurement types such as horizontal and vertical cursors, and basic math calculations such as the mean and standard deviation. Additionally, you can define new measurement types that suit your specific needs.

As shown below, you can list the predefined measurement types and create a new measurement type with the Measurement Type pane of the Measurement Editor GUI.

Defining a Measurement

Measurements that you define for the Oscilloscope are displayed in the Measurements panel. By default, this panel is not included as part of the Oscilloscope. To create the panel, you define one or more initial measurements. There are two ways to do this:

• Right-click in the Channel Scaling panel and select Add Measurement from the menu.
• Use the Measurement Editor GUI, which you open by selecting the Edit->Measurement menu item.

Alternatively, you can create an empty Measurements panel by selecting the Measurement check box in the Scope pane of the Scope Editor.

The Measurement pane shown below is configured to add a vertical cursor measurement for CH0 to the Oscilloscope. Note that the peak-to-peak measurement is already defined for CH0.

After you click the OK or Apply button of the Measurement Editor, the Measurements panel is automatically added to the Oscilloscope. You can then click the Add Measurement button to define additional measurements.

Configuring Trigger Properties

Defining a New Measurement Type