Terra,
I have a 580D and a 580C, both with hard drives...
Would you be willing to share the applications you mentioned in your post? Also, I would assume they have to be activated. Did TEK do it for you or did you find a way around that?
thanks,
Strick
PM me your email and I'll send you what I have. I'm not sure what will work on 500 series scopes as I don't have one to test, but you'll soon find out.
There's no special activation, just load the particular software on (I removed the HDD from the scope and replaced it with a CF card and adapter, so I copied the software over to the CF card from my PC using a USB card reader).
Once you boot the scope, you can load the software package you want to use from the scope menu system.
You can activate options via GPIB though, like this:
Send the GPIB commands over GPIB after switching the protection switch to unlock and sending the text 'PASSWORD PITBULL' (without the quotation marks) via GPIB.
Option Name NVRAM Addr Hex Addr GPIB Command Description
1M 4M acquisition length 0400081F 0000081F WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327686, 1 Extends standard acquisition length from 50,000 points per channel to 130,000 samples on three or four channels, 250,000 samples on two channels, and 500,000 samples on one channel.
05 Video Trigger 0400081D 0000081D WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327687, 1 Oscilloscope comes with tools that allow investigation of a range of NTSC, PAL, SECAM, and high definition TV signals.
13 RS-232C and Centronics interfaces 04000823 00000823 WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327688, 1 Add RS-232-C and Centronics interface ports.
2F Advanced DSP math 04000827 00000827 WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327689, 1 Add advanced DSP math features such as FFT, integration, and differentiation.
1F Floppy disk drive 04000825 00000825 WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327690, 1 Add 3.5 inch, 1.44 MByte floppy disc drive.
2C Communication Signal Analyzer 0400082B 0000082B WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327692, 1 Oscilloscope comes configured for communications signal triggering and mask testing.
3C P6701B with system calibration 0400082D 0000082D WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327693, 1 Oscilloscope comes with a P6701B and calibrated short-wavelength optical reference receiver on channel 1.
4C P6703B with system calibration 0400082F 0000082F WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327694, 1 Oscilloscope comes with a P6703B and calibrated long-wavelength optical reference receiver on channel 1.
2M 8M acquisition length 04000831 00000831 WORDCONSTANT:ATPUT 327695, 1 TDS 520D, 724D: To 2M samples on two channels and 4M on one channel. TDS 540D, 580D, 714L, 754D, 784D, 794D: To 2M samples on three or four channels, 4M on two channels, and 8M samples on one channel (Option includes a hard disk and is only available for the models listed above.)
Note, some options need hardware to be installed (05, 13, 1F, 3C, 4C, 2M). Option will simply not appear if the hardware is not present.