Analyze the components and advantages of virtual oscilloscopes

The oscilloscope is one of the most commonly used measuring instruments in the electronic measurement industry. It can input electrical signals through the oscilloscope and output them into visible images, allowing people to study the changing process of various electrical phenomena or signal changes more intuitively. process. With the development of science and technology, traditional measurement methods are no longer applicable in many occasions, and many instruments have the slogan of "intelligence". How to realize intelligence, so "virtual instruments" came into being. Compared with oscilloscopes, the generation of virtual oscilloscopes, that is, intelligent digital oscilloscopes, is undoubtedly a major breakthrough in the development of oscilloscopes, and significant changes have taken place in the functions and roles of oscilloscopes.

Regarding the virtual oscilloscope, it can be understood in this way that the virtual oscilloscope is a software and hardware system that uses high-performance hardware modules and efficient and flexible software to realize the functions of ordinary instruments and many extended functions.

Components of a virtual oscilloscope

It mainly includes three parts: signal acquisition and control, data analysis and processing, and display of measurement results. Signal acquisition and control is a hardware platform composed of computer and instrument hardware to realize the acquisition, measurement, conversion and control of signals; data analysis and processing are reflected in the virtual oscilloscope making full use of the computer's storage and operation functions, and realizing the control of the signal through software. Analysis and processing of input data signals; the display of measurement results of virtual oscilloscope is to use computer resources, such as display, memory, etc., to express and output measurement results in various ways, and also to use computer for data transmission and utilization.

As a complete software and hardware system, virtual oscilloscope is cheaper than traditional oscilloscope and has unique advantages such as waveform triggering, storage, display, measurement, waveform data analysis and processing, etc. The characteristics of virtual oscilloscope are: what? mainly reflects in:

(1) The widely used USB interface is adopted to make the interface between the virtual instrument and the computer more convenient and the communication speed is higher;

(2) Use high-speed analog-to-digital conversion chip for high-speed sampling;

(3) Use high-performance single-chip microcomputer for control, use high-speed large-capacity memory to save sampling data in real time, and improve the performance of the instrument;

(4) Use Labview language to design the application program of the upper computer, which can realize the waveform display, as well as the analysis and processing of the data.

During the development of virtual oscilloscope, the software reality is an important part of the whole project and one of the key technologies. Let's analyze the software of the virtual oscilloscope, which includes:

(1) Software functions - link with hardware, control equipment works normally, signal display and storage, signal analysis and processing;

(2) Software composition - the three major parts include the hardware driver part, the virtual panel part and the signal post-processing part;

(3) Software structure - integrates the user interface into a whole, and realizes various functions of the oscilloscope through the relevant controls on the interface. The following figure is a software structure:

Analyze the components and advantages of virtual oscilloscopes

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