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Table of Contents
Getting started ................................................. 5
Overview .............................................................................6
Types of Operations ............................................................7
Monitoring the Oscilloscope Display ....................................7
Standard Memory Length Data Capture................................8
Remote Controlling the Oscilloscope..................................11
Long Memory Length Data Capture ....................................11
Installing Freewave......................................... 13
Required Equipment..........................................................13
Install Required Software ..................................................15
Installation Steps ..............................................................16
Installing the Software Package ...........................................16
Connecting the Oscilloscope and Verifying Connectivity ...20
Manually Installing the USB Driver .....................................22
Repairing/Uninstalling Freewave .......................................26
Monitoring the Oscilloscope.......................... 27
Viewing the Oscilloscope Display Contents .......................28
Viewing the Oscilloscope Virtual Panel .............................30
Taking a Snapshot of Display Contents..............................32
Taking a Video Clip of the Display Contents(GDS-1000-U
and GDS-1000A-U only) ....................................................33
Printing Out Display Contents...........................................34
Short Memory Data Capture........................... 35
Viewing Oscilloscope Waveforms ......................................35
Saving Waveform Data.......................................................40
Recalling Waveform Data...................................................41
Using the Commands..................................... 42
Preparing a Command List ................................................42
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Configuring and Running the Commands ..........................45
Saving a Command List and its Result...............................47
Long Memory Data Capture (GDS-2000A/ GDS-
1000A-U Only) ............................................... 48
Viewing Long Memory Oscilloscope Waveforms ................48
Saving Waveform Data.......................................................51
Recalling Waveform Data...................................................52