tds3000: Tektronix 3000/5000 Series
Scope Support - Release Notes
April 2012
Release 2-5
- Fixed record (sample) length issues with the TDS5000 series
- Added functions to write waveforms to file, which could be a
network file in the case of the TDS5000 series.
- Added Acquire Sample Mode selection for the TDS5000 series only.
- Added Acquire Average Mode for both series.
- Added record length control/status.
- Provided readback status of trigger functions.
- Removed TDSxxxx.vdb from the support package.
- Created separate databases, TDS3000.vdb & TDS5000.vdb to
implement the above changes.
- Updated MEDM displays to reflect new features.
- Improve the AutoArmPrint SNL program performance.
- Created an AutoArmSave SNL program for the TDS5000.
- Tested with EPICS R3.14.11
- Issues with TDS3000 firmware 4.41 was corrected.
- Time scale changing the record length to a smaller on the TDS5000
series was corrected.
Release 2-4
- Merged support for TDS5000 series devices. Add devTDS3000.dbd or
devTDS5000.dbd (or both) to your application as appropriate.
- Provide example database file (TDSxxxx.vdb) which works with
either TDS3000 or TDS5000 devices (set FAMILY macro to 3000 or 5000).
- Modified example startup and MEDM scripts to allow values to be
set from environment variables.
- Use standard ASYN techniques to control diagnostic printing.
Release 2-3
- Corrected documentation and revision tags.
Release 2-2
- Defined DATA:START and DATA:STOP to be 0 and 10000 respectfully.
Calibration software may change these values with out restoring the
defaults.
- Corrected some pv issues
- Build with R3.14.7
Release 2-1
- Build with R3.14.6
- Use same device support for GPIB and serial (local/remote)
interfaces. The serial version (devTDS3000s.c) is not needed now.
Release 1-1
First release of the asyn
device support for the tds3000 scopes
- converted the tds3054 from the 3.13 gpib support to tds3000 asyn
device support.
- Supports GPIB, Serial and Ethernet.