My lab (I'm a Physics PhD student) has just purchased a Agilent MSO-x 2024A Oscilloscope, predominantly due to it's memory depth and segmented memory acquisition capabilities. We are wanting to collect pulsed data (we have purchased the additional licence required for this) which has a small magnitude (~10mV) and each pulse is ~1us wide, with ~100us repetition rate. Each pulse consists of an AC signal, at a few MHz, and we are wanting to (as accurately as possible) determine the phase of the AC signal contained within each pulse (compared to some reference signal)
My problem is that I need to automate the data collection process so that the settings can be programmed from a computer, an extrnal signal will cause the scope to trigger, and the data collected will be automatically transferred to and saved on a computer in a systematic way. I have little experience with this kind of remote programming, and wondered whether you had any suggestions? I have National Instruments' LabView installed on my computer, but again, I have little experience with this program.
Also, any other tips anyone could offer on sampling and recording a signal of this type with as much accuracy and precision as possible would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!