So I have an older 25mhz Siglent 1022DL, which I tried to install USBTMC years ago on Windows 7, I never figured it out and just gave up as it wasn't very important to me at the time. I recently purchased an SDS1104x-e scope and a SDG1032x-e AWF, and am planning to purchase a SDM3045x in the next month. I have successfully "upgraded" the scope to the 1204x-e (via lan) with all the options and am able to control the SDG1032x with it, along with using the wifi server and the SLA1016 logic probe. The SDG1032x has also been "upgraded" to an SDG1064x via lan connection. The point being is im not dumb when it comes to getting this stuff set up usually, but the documentation on getting these NI drivers is really confusing and I know nothing about the NI eco-system. I would like to write some software to automate impeadence/LCR measurements along with controlling some cheap RF gens via the scope, and when i buy the bench meter id obviously like to add some automation to that...
Anyways I've downloaded and installed EasyScopeX, and EasyWaveX, I just need to get the NI drivers installed to use them. I read
this page at siglent, How to install the USBTMC driver and I also read
Verification of a working remote communications connection using NI – MAX. Neither of these articles helped me. I've literally built Android Kernels and Set up Embedded Dev Environments in less time than i have spent on this!
When I plug the scope in to my computer it shows up in Device Manger under other devices as SDS1204X-E with the little yellow exclamation point next to it. Next I right click that and tell it to update driver, then click browse location, and select the folder I extracted the driver too, which is the newest driver I found on the
Siglent SDS1000X-E support page, which is labeled
Scopes Labview Driver - 1.1.2.1. Everytime I do this Windows 10 tells me "Windows was unable to install your SDS1204X-E", becuase no drivers for the device were found. Well windows is right these driver downloads only seem to contain files for NI, there are no sys files, executables or anything else like that. I searched my C drive for "ausbtmc.sys" which is listed in one of the articles I linked too above, and it's nowhere to be found. So really it seems like the solution here is to Install NI-MAX which I have no issue with except the NI web site says you can not download NI-Max and that your device's should install it... I dont see any downloads at siglent for NI-Max either. What the heck is going on here???
I also have one unrelated SDS1000X-E question, On my Siglent SDS1022DL 25Mhz scope there were options to digitally filter a channels signal using either lowpass/highpass/bandpass filters. I found this really useful, for instance if you wanted to check out higher frequency noise riding on top of a sin wave or filter the carrier out of a modulated signal. Is this not possible on the the SDS1000X-E all I see is a 20Mhz BW limit filter? Ive also noticed equivalent time sampling seems to be gone which is a shame because im betting a 200mhz bandwidth scope would be capable of easily reconstructing pretty high frequency carrier waves.