Teledyne LeCroy LabMaster 9Zi-A - Manual (Page 203)

Getting Started Manual
922157-00 Rev A 195
Customization Overview
The instrument provides powerful capability to add your own parameters,
functions, display algorithms, or other routines to the oscilloscope user
interface without having to leave the instrument application environment.
You can customize the instrument to your needs by using the power of
programs such as Excel™, Mathcad™, and MATLAB™, or by scripting in VBS.
Whichever method you use, the results appear on the instrument's display
together with the signals that you started with. This ability offers
tremendous advantages in solving unique problems for a large range of
applications, with comparatively little effort from you.
Instrument customization provides these important capabilities:
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Export data without leaving the instrument environment.
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Display results from external programs without leaving the
instrument application environment.
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Perform additional oscilloscope operations on returned data, such as
measuring with cursors, applying parameters, or performing
additional functions on the waveform, in exactly the same way as for
a normal waveform.
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Program the oscilloscope yourself.
The instrument does not just provide connectivity with data downloads to
other programs. It provides true customizable interaction with these other
programs, and allows you to truly customize the oscilloscope to do the
exact job you want it to do. The advantages to this are many:
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Use the standard processing power of the instrument to do most of
your calculations.
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Write the missing function, parameter, display algorithm, etc. that
specifically applies to your need.
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View the final result on the instrument display, and use all of the
instrument's tools to understand the result.
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Do additional processing on the result by applying standard
instrument parameters and functions, or even more powerfully,
adding chained customized functions. For example, you can do an
Excel calculation on a result with a MATLAB function applied to it.