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Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Documentation

caroline_teledynelecroy
caroline_teledynelecroy
21 Jun 2018

If we really want to get the most out of our oscilloscopes, we'd be remiss in overlooking the documentation capabilities that modern instruments provide. It's so important to document our working sessions so they're consistent and repeatable. Oscilloscope setups can be quite intricate for a given measurement or procedure. Why not let the instrument help us keep track of such things?

 

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Figure l: A LabNotebook entry quickly and easily saves everything you need to later replicate your measurements

 

The best way to accomplish this on Teledyne LeCroy's oscilloscopes is with the LabNotebook utility, which, on most models, can be found in the File dropdown menu at the top left of the display. A LabNotebook entry saves waveforms, oscilloscope setups, and screen images, which can be annotated for later reference (Figure 1).

 

Waveforms may be saved in any of several formats, including binary (.trc), ASCII (.txt), Excel,


MatLab, MathCad, or audio. Screen image formats include .jpg, .png, .tif, and .bmp. Setups are saves as .lss files.

LabNotebook quickly and easily generates reports that capture the screen image and all of the important acquisition settings. You can generate a report from a LabNotebook file (.lnb) or directly from the oscilloscope setup in .pdf, HTML, or .rdf formats. These reports can be stored internally to the oscilloscope's disk drive, on a network, or to external storage media. You can also email a LabNotebook report directly from the oscilloscope.

 

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Figure 2: LabNotebook saves waveforms, setups, and annotated screen images for later reference

 

Saving all of this information in one file is extremely useful, but what's even more useful is the Flashback function, which retrieves all of that data and automatically restores the oscilloscope to the state it was in when you created the .lnb file. You can then continue making measurements using that setup, or the previous measurements can modified or added to so as to reanalyze the existing data.

 

LabNotebook facilitates collaborative work in that you can easily annotate the screen images with the included Scribble tool to include notes and/or highlight areas of interest. Colleagues anywhere in the world can flash the .lnb file to their own Teledyne LeCroy oscilloscope and get right to work as if they were at the bench beside you.

 

LabNotebook is a standard feature of Teledyne LeCroy's advanced MAUI with OneTouch user interface.

 

Previous posts in this series:

Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Setup

Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Navigation with MAUI

Getting The Most Out Of Your Oscilloscope: Trigger Delay

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  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 4 years ago +1
    Hi Caroline, I like this function a lot - in the vague recess of my mind I know I've been caught out a few times, e.g.when writing up my R&D notes and mutter as I realise I forgot to record a vital setting…
  • 14rhb
    14rhb over 4 years ago

    Hi Caroline,

     

    I like this function a lot - in the vague recess of my mind I know I've been caught out a few times, e.g.when writing up my R&D notes and mutter as I realise I forgot to record a vital setting, luckily I think the settings hadn't been changed so that was quite obvious, but in the worst case could null a large chuck of expensive work. But it looks like that is a thing of the past....as long as you remember to actually save the info.

     

    Rod

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