For the avoidance of doubt, the older 3000A also supports full decode on analogue and digital channels.
I appreciate Daniel's presence and his valuable input. Hope he does not take your comment seriously.
LOL anyone else find it odd that a Keysight/Agilent rep comments in a thread about hacking their device to get upgrades for free? Ha ha
LOL anyone else find it odd that a Keysight/Agilent rep comments in a thread about hacking their device to get upgrades for free? Ha ha
It is only odd if he was to encourage or help with a hack. In this case it is simply a refreshing change from the stance companies often take.
We're good, Ben. I also think it's ironic that I'm present on this thread (and yes, I think I'm using "ironic" correctly )
Honestly, I'm here with a Keysight username because I want to be here in a professional capacity and I'm in a place here that will make it sustainable. I've lurked for a long time on this blog and other social media sites, but decided to finally take the plunge and create an "official" account.
To be fair, I only responded to this thread because people were wondering what the cable looked like and I had found the thread while researching the current MSOs after my trusty old TEK died, sorry if it derailed the thread but I will give Keysight credit for being willing to respond to a thread of this nature.
sorry if I caused any derailment here.
Hi mongo,
I'll follow up with you on the message you sent us, I'm sorry that the MSO isn't living up to what you need.
Some history on this, when we started shipping the 2000 X-Series scopes there was no decoding at all. After a lot of customer feedback, we enabled serial decoding with the 2.30 firmware release, but the caveat was that the 2000 X-Series only have one of the MegaZoom ASICs. The digital lines and serial decoding use the same block in the ASIC, so it's a physical impossibility to enable the decoding and the digital channels simultaneously. The 3000T and up have two ASICs, which is why we support that in those scopes. It makes us sad, too.
I recently scored a cheap dsox2004a in ebay and upgraded the software to 2.35. I've read through the thread (a few times) but I'm stuck unpacking the cab file... I can extract it fine but I don't have a way to do the numerous copies necessary to create the /Secure file structure. I tried installing cab manager 3.0 but the website it gone and all the installers I can find are just bloatware... I work in linux mostly but can run Windows 8.1 in a vm. Does anyone have a python script to unpack the files using _setup.xml?
Thanks,
Elliot