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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: smaultre on July 26, 2022, 03:05:41 pm

Title: Why there's no any bus analyzers plugins for Tektronix TDS5000.7000 series scop
Post by: smaultre on July 26, 2022, 03:05:41 pm

Hello my friends. There's ton's of plugins for these series of scopes, but i didn't find any low speed bus analysers rs-232 e.t.c.
Why? I can't find any reason's.
 

Title: Re: Why there's no any bus analyzers plugins for Tektronix TDS5000.7000 series scop
Post by: vmax on August 03, 2022, 01:20:58 pm

 If these functions is necessary, you just need to replace your oscilloscope.

Title: Re: Why there's no any bus analyzers plugins for Tektronix TDS5000.7000 series scop
Post by: smaultre on August 04, 2022, 02:29:20 pm

No, i means is there any hardware/software problems with extracting and decoding the data from beam?

Title: Re: Why there's no any bus analyzers plugins for Tektronix TDS5000.7000 series scop
Post by: PaulAm on August 04, 2022, 04:09:51 pm

At the time these were in production, there wasn't a big call for that type of device.  RS232 pretty much topped out at 9600 baud and there really weren't any other serial protocols.  Parallel buses could be handled by a logic analyzer, and there was a LA plugin (7D02)  available.  HP made a GPIB analyzer, but it was pretty limited compared to what you might find now (sigrok and a $10 Saleae clone will run rings around the HP device).  With some work you could use a high end LA to decode parallel buses, but it really wasn't in the state of the art at that point.

Note: I'm assuming you're referring to the Tek 7000 and 5000 series here.