Tips and Tricks: R&S RTB2000/RTM3000/RTA4000

[Rich@RohdeScopesUSA]

Another super cool one.  You can "pull out" menus so you have quick access to them.  Open the menu you want, grab it with your finger (or mouse) and slowly slide it to the left.  When you see the blue arrows you can pop it out in to the display.   You can then make quick changes.  You can also add multiple different quick access menus, move them around the display, etc. To delete them, just hit the gear and choose what ones you want to delete.



-Rich

[Rich@RohdeScopesUSA]

Does the gif above work for anyone?

-Rich

[nctnico]

Does the gif above work for anyone?

Not for me.

[jjoonathan]

I couldn't get the forum upload for gifs to work either. Same symptoms. I've been uploading to gfycat.com and then hotlinking to the thumbnail from (User Heiroglyph > Profile). Presumably there's a bandwidth limit but I haven't hit it yet.

[EEVblog]

I'm guessing the new plugin doesn't support animated GIF's? 

[Rich@RohdeScopesUSA]

I couldn't get the forum upload for gifs to work either. Same symptoms. I've been uploading to gfycat.com and then hotlinking to the thumbnail from (User Heiroglyph > Profile). Presumably there's a bandwidth limit but I haven't hit it yet.

Thanks for the tip.  Hopefully what I did above works now (you have to click the image to see the animation).

-Rich

[Kean]

Hopefully what I did above works now (you have to click the image to see the animation).

Yup, thanks.  I'll have to try that - it looks really useful.

[Rich@RohdeScopesUSA]

One more quick one - you can adjust window size easily using the arrows on the left side of the graticule.  This works in zoom mode, FFT, serial decode, etc.  No need to have a fixed window ratio.

Click on the image to see the animated version if the gif doesn't work for you.



-Rich

[Rich@RohdeScopesUSA]

Looks like gifs are working again?    

I've updated the posts - let me know if you all can't see them directly in the posts now.

-Rich

[genghisnico13]

The last one (the one about resizing) is perfect, good size and it works on desktop and mobile.
The one about quick access works, but is big on the desktop.

[Rich@RohdeScopesUSA]

OneTouch is pretty cool too, especially if you're doing documentation.  Basically allows you to configure the "camera" button to not only save a screenshot, but also your setup, waveform file, references, event tables and even statistics, all in to a zip file on your thumbdrive with one push.  You can choose what all you want to be saved.



-Rich

PS - I tried resizing this one so hopefully it is more viewable across different platforms.  Let me know. 

[hwj-d]

PS - I tried resizing this one so hopefully it is more viewable across different platforms.  Let me know. 

Horizontal resolution is fixed! This can't work.
(Think of smartphones.)

[zitoune]

Hi Rich,

Thank you for all those tricks; they are very useful!

I got a RTM for a couple of days now and love it. I was wondering how you can display the decoded values (say from an I2C bus) vertically - meaning the HEX values are not displayed like all the screenshots we usually see but rather like what's visible in that R&S image: https://cdn.rohde-schwarz.com/pws/powerslave/504580/18/import5a214aee0d0d9.jpg

Thanks!

[Hydron]

Use the V/div control to expand the decode vertically, then see if it'll do it.

[egonotto]

Hello,

in the picture are not the decoded value in the table but the relative time of the single segments.

Best regards
egonotto

[zitoune]

Use the V/div control to expand the decode vertically, then see if it'll do it.

Thank you - indeed changing the V/div scale does work. Very handy, you can see more decoded values on the screen!

[zitoune]

Hello,

in the picture are not the decoded value in the table but the relative time of the single segments.

Best regards
egonotto

Yes indeed, I was looking at the decoded values on the top part of the screen.

[egonotto]

Hello,

what I can get is shown in the two pictures.

Best regards
egonotto

[zitoune]

Yes this is exactly what I was looking for and it is even more handy when decoding long words like in the attached screenshot (24bits I2S protocol).

Thanks.