Data Acquisition Toolbox

softscope: The Data Acquisition Oscilloscope

The data acquisition Oscilloscope is an interactive graphical user interface (GUI) for streaming data into a display. The sections are as follows.

Opening the Oscilloscope	Associate hardware with the Oscilloscope and open the application
Displaying Channels	Display hardware, math, and reference channels
Scaling the Channel Data	Scale channel data horizontally and vertically
Triggering the Oscilloscope	Control how the data acquisition is initiated
Making Measurements	Make measurements on acquired data using predefined or custom measurement types
Exporting Data	Save channel data or measurements to the workspace, a figure, or a MAT-file
Saving and Loading the Oscilloscope Configuration	Save and load the hardware configuration, the property values, and the state of the Oscilloscope

This examples in this chapter use Measurement Computing's Demo-Board, which is installed with InstaCal or the Universal Library driver. The Demo-Board is a software simulation of an 8-channel, 16-bit analog input device. You can associate waveforms such as a sine wave or a square wave, or input from a data file with the analog input channels. You can download InstaCal or the Universal Library driver from http://www.measurementcomputing.com.

Example: Logging and Retrieving Information Opening the Oscilloscope