pyMSO4 1.0

Tektronix MSO4 VISA library

pyMSO4

A python library for interfacing with the Tektronix MSO4 oscilloscopes (tested with MSO44).

Installation

pip install pyMSO4

Usage

Connect the probe on channel 1 to the calibration square wave output, and press the Autoset button, the following code will capture a trace of the signal as seen on the oscilloscope screen:

import pyMSO4
mso44 = pyMSO4.MSO4(trig_type=pyMSO4.MSO4EdgeTrigger)
mso44.con(ip="128.181.240.130") # Using p2p ethernet connection
mso44.ch_a_enable([True, False, False, False]) # Enable channel 1
mso44.acq.wfm_src = ['ch1'] # Set waveform source to channel 1
mso44.acq.wfm_start = 0
mso44.acq.wfm_stop = mso44.acq.horiz_record_length # Get all data points
wfm = mso44.sc.query_binary_values('CURVE?', datatype=mso44.acq.get_datatype(), is_big_endian=mso44.acq.is_big_endian)
mso44.dis()

Additional examples can be found in the documentation.

Documentation

Sphinx documentation is available here.

Got root?

If you're here because you think it's fun to get root on an oscilloscope, see Appendix C of the report for the details.