Rigol DS1052E Digital Oscilloscope

Hey all! I want to import data form Rigol DS1052E Digital Oscilloscope into Simulink at run time. Has anyone done this before ? Neither I can't find the drivers for my Rigol Model nor I know how to do. Will someone help me with this ? Regards,

[Cristhian Zárate]

I'm not using the Simulink, but I'm workin on reading data from Rigol DS1054z on a matlab script.

Installation:

You will need the NI IVI Compliance Package

https://www.ni.com/es-cr/support/downloads/drivers/download.ivi-compliance-package.html#305841

And the Rigol DS1000 series driver

http://beyondmeasure.rigoltech.com/acton/attachment/1579/f-04de/1/-/-/-/-/rgds1kz.msi

Then try to create the object

Simpliest way

Rigol_Osc = oscilloscope();

Rigol_Osc.getResources (select the usb address of the rigol)

Rigol_Osc.Resource = '<ADDRESS>';

Rigol_Osc.getDrivers (select the driver name installed)

Rigol_Osc.Driver = '<DRIVERNAME>'

connect(Rigol_Osc)

[Ali bala]

Hi, Cristhian. I have tried what you have suggested. But I don't know how to combine the ni package with the rest of the thing. I have installed the ni package as well as the rigol driver. I have copied you piece of code into matlab and run. Only thing it did was to stop the running scope. I have used the matlab demo code from rigol programming guide. But it only acquires the screen data, 1200 points only. Also, the vertical data units do not match with the scope data. This is quite frustrating stiuation. Would you mind sharing your method with more details ? code would be much better.

Answer 1

[AngryMob]

Try to change your settings on the oszcilloscope to Uiility->IO Setting->USB Device "Computer" ... i think it is by default on "PicBridge"

I struggle with the same problem...

It seems to work for me with:

% Find a VISA-USB object.
DS1000z = instrfind('Type', 'visa-usb', 'RsrcName', 'USB0::0x1AB1::0x04CE::DS1ZA192712385::0::INSTR', 'Tag', '');

% Create the VISA-USB object if it does not exist
% otherwise use the object that was found.
if isempty(DS1000z)
    DS1000z = visa('NI', 'USB0::0x1AB1::0x04CE::DS1ZA192712385::0::INSTR');
else
    fclose(DS1000z);
    DS1000z = DS1000z(1);
end

% Set the device property. In this demo, the length of the input buffer is set to 2048. 
DS1000z.InputBufferSize = 2048;

% Connect to instrument object, obj1.
fopen(DS1000z);

% Set channel
fprintf(DS1000z, ':WAV:SOURce CHAN1' ); 
% Normal Mode
fprintf(DS1000z, ':WAV:MODE NORM' ); 

% Samplerate T?
fprintf(DS1000z, ':WAVeform:XINCrement?');
SampRate = fscanf(DS1000z);

% Read the waveform data 
fprintf(DS1000z, ':wav:data?' ); 
% Request the data 
[data,len]= fread(DS1000z,2048); 

[Priyanka]

I am using the same code. ITs still reading 1200 pts only. Is there any solution to this problem?

[Zdravko Pavic]

Hello SIr,

I struggled with the same problem 5 years ago.

I wrote a software in my university that controlls ans reads out Tektronix scopes and makes signal analysis. It was a nice FFT-Analysator.

Later I tried to include my scope at home, which was the 1052e and I found out that there could be many bugs on the side of Rigol (Signals showed clipping on rising/falling edges in the raw data, where on the scope screen it seemed all good, I only could read out like 500k values and the length of read out values was never constant, sometime a few k more, sometimes a few less).

It seems that the price difference is laying in the SW quality.

After a few nights 5 years ago and again after some trying last year, I gave up with that device. I even wrote RIGOL 5 years ago but never received an answear.