Study on Remote Control Techniques to the Digital Storage Oscilloscope Based on VC and GPIB

Some techniques of controlling remotely the digital storage oscilloscope are proposed including VISA, VXIplug&play drivers, TVC and IVI-COM drivers. By means of TekVISA, several application development environments can be used to develop functions of the digital storage oscilloscope. The programming language of Visual C++ is used to develop software. With the help of TekVISA and the dynamic link library, remote control to the digital storage oscilloscope through network is completed. All operations to the digital storage oscilloscope including parameters setup, data acquisition, waveform acquisition and storage, data processing are implemented in a remote place. The results show that the techniques of remote control are convenient and efficient and fit for experiments of scientific research and practical projects.