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| Subject: | Re: USB-scopes, anyone? |
| From: | "Steven M. Hartman" <[email protected]> |
| To: | Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> |
| Cc: | "[email protected]" <[email protected]> |
| Date: | Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:37:03 -0500 |
Benjamin Franksen wrote:
Has anyone already done something like that? If yes, which manufacturers/devices are you using? Has anyone experience with programming USB? Could the protocol be reverse engineered?
We looked into using USB to interface some Tek scopes which were already on hand (these are normal, but low-end scopes with front panel, etc). The implementation was on linux with a usbtmc kernel module, plus asyn, steamdevice, sscan, etc.
But we determined that the USB interface (at least on these scopes) was too slow to be of much use. This plus the difficulty of short cable lengths for USB led us to decide this wasn't worth pursuing.
-- Steven Hartman [email protected]