Showing posts with label DS1000Z. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DS1000Z. Show all posts

Sunday, November 30, 2014

New oscilloscope

If you follow both of our blogs, you may know that Kevin has recently organized a home lab and added some new equipment. I've been working on mine as well and I made a different decision regarding oscilloscopes: The Rigol DS1074Z.

I wanted a newer scope with deep memory and advanced trigger modes. I was especially interested in a scope with an Ethernet interface compatible with the VXI-11 standard. I'm hoping to use Python to unify my simulation and testing environments and this scope should help. I've already found an interesting python project, python-vxi11 and used it to communicate with the scope (see Figure 1).

I've also posted a gratuitous picture of my home office/lab to compete with Kevin (Figure 2).

Figure 1. Identify Query and Response from My DS1074Z.

Figure 2. The Scene of the Crime (see And the sparks fly...)