Programming Tektronix 7854 over GPIB

[Julio Rodriguez]

I recently bought a Tektronix 7854 oscilloscope, and I am interested in
transferring waveforms over the GPIB so that I can save them on my PC.


Tektronix has a few examples in their literature, but most involve
communicating with a TEK 4050 which I don't have.

I am using a CEC (Capital Equipment Corporation) CEC488 card, so I would
like to do all programming using the library functions that came with the
card.

I have some flexibility regarding the programming language, and have access
to Delphi, QuickBasic, and Turbo C.



Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Keyser Soze]

"Julio Rodriguez" <juliorz@bellsouth.net> wrote in message news:ygkqg.5103$Oc5.1366@bignews4.bellsouth.net...

I recently bought a Tektronix 7854 oscilloscope, and I am interested in transferring waveforms over the GPIB so that I can save
them on my PC.


Tektronix has a few examples in their literature, but most involve communicating with a TEK 4050 which I don't have.

I am using a CEC (Capital Equipment Corporation) CEC488 card, so I would like to do all programming using the library functions
that came with the card.

I have some flexibility regarding the programming language, and have access to Delphi, QuickBasic, and Turbo C.



Any help would be appreciated.

Here are some application notes that may be useful:

http://www.slack.com/TE/Tek7854/Tek7854-AN-GPIB.pdf

http://www.slack.com/TE/Tek7854/Tek7854-AN-PCBasic.pdf

http://www.slack.com/TE/Tek7854/Tek7854-AN-variety.pdf

http://www.slack.com/TE/Tek7854/Tek7854-AN-SPSBasic.pdf