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SDS2000X-E Series

Instrument Socket and Telnet Port Information

February 25, 2021

Product Type Product Series Socket port 5025 (Y/N) Telnet port 5024(Y/N) Digital Oscilloscope SDS5000X Y Y SDS2000X Plus Y Y SDS2000X N N SDS2000X-E Y Y SDS1000X N N SDS1000X-E Y Y SDS1104X-U Y Y SDS1000CML+ N N SDS1000DL+ N N Waveform Generator SDG6000X Y Y SDG2000X Y Y SDG1000X Y Y SDG800 N N … Continued

How do I directly control an instrument using LAN?

February 16, 2021

For convenience, we recommend connecting your instrument to your LAN using a router that can configure DHCP directly and use an internet switch to connect the LAN to the instruments you wish to control. In some cases, you may wish to directly connect your computer to an instrument LAN port without a LAN available. This … Continued

Oscilloscope Binary Data format

February 4, 2021

Data can be formatted in many different ways. Binary data formatting often provides the smallest payload size and therefore transfers via USB/LAN more quickly. Unfortunately, binary is very difficult to interpret by humans. So, binary data is often reformatted to other types (ASCII, etc..)/ Here is a link to the binary data format for many … Continued

WiFi option SSID and Password requirements

May 15, 2020

The WiFi option for the XE oscilloscopes requires log in for the network SSID and Password. The scope does not support SSIDs or Passwords that contain Spaces or Special Characters (!, @, #, etc..) The SSID and Password for your network must not contain spaces or special characters in order to connect to the XE via the … Continued

WiFi performance is slow or does not connect well to my network

November 19, 2019

Some high-performance routers with extended range like the Orbi RBR50 Mesh Network router do not work well with the SIGLENT TL_W725N wireless adapter. The WiFi adapter update rate is also not as fast as a directly wired LAN connection. A solution is to use an Ethernet to WiFi Wireless Adapter like the IOGEAR Ethernet-2-WiFi Universal … Continued

More on Trigger Status Messages

August 8, 2019

There are 6 types of trigger status messages for the SIGLENT SDS series of oscilloscopes. The trigger status indication is located near the upper-right-hand side of the display, as indicated in this picture: Here are their definitions: Armed. The oscilloscope is acquiring pre-trigger data. All triggers are ignored in this state. Ready. All pre-trigger data … Continued

Currently supported instruments for use with the SIGLENT USB-GPIB adapter

August 8, 2019

The SIGLENT USB-GPIB adaptor currently works with the following SIGLENT instruments: Multimeters – SDM3065X/SDM3065X-SC SDM3055/SDM3055-SC SDM3045X   Function/Arbitrary waveform generators – SDG6000X Series SDG5000 Series SDG2000X Series SDG1000X Series SDG1000 Series   Spectrum & vector network analyzers – SSA3000X Series SSA3000X Plus Series SVA1000X Series   Oscilloscopes – SDS1000CFL