Category: Knowledge Base MSO8000 Series

You can send a screen shot, setup files and other files in an email from DS7000 and MSO5000 series oscilloscopes. 

To set up email service press the Utility key and then More and Email at the right side of the display.

Now you can press Settings at the bottom right corner of the display to enter the email server login settings menu:

The following window is displayed. After the settings are entered tap OK to complete the server login. To cancel login, tap Cancel to exit or tap the icon at the upper-right corner of the window to exit.

• Press SMTP to set the mail transmission protocol.
• Press Port to set the protocol port in the pop-up numeric keypad. Its range is from 0 to 65535.
• Press UserName to set the user name of the server.
• Press PassWord to set the password of the server.

You can then press Test to verify whether the email server is properly set up.

Once the scope is set up to send emails you can then use File Select and and Attachment to select the file to be sent along with any desired attachments.

Remote control of the  DS7000 and MSO5000 is possible using Web Control.

To set up web control connect the scope to a PC with a LAN cable.
Push the Utility key followed by I/O and then LAN on the side of the display.
The Lan settings window  will now be brought up. For this  example we will  use the IP address generated by Auto IP. It will take a few moments to generate the IP address and show status as  connected.



Now enter the IP address into your browser on the PC and you will be presented with the Web Control Welcome  screen.



Press the Web Control button and enter the user name and password.



The display of the scope will appear on the PC screen along with selectable menu items once logged in.

Measurements can be added to the bottom of the display quickly and easily, or all measurements can be displayed at once.

• To add measurements press “Measure” then press “Add” on the right side of the display.  Now the Quick Measurement Menu appears.
• You are able to change between the different categories by either pressing on the tabs in the menu or by changing the “Category” section on the menu on the right side of display. This will allow you to pick between vertical and horizontal measurements along with use the other comparison measurements and then analyze the signal.
• You can change which channel is associated with the measurements by toggling between channel 1 and channel 2 by changing the source on the right side of the display

• To show all measurements for one channel you can do this by pressing “Measure” and then “All Measure” and you can select to display either all of the measurements on channel 1 or channel 2.

Protocol Analysis allows you to quickly decode serial communication.  The oscilloscope is capable of triggering on and decoding parallel, RS232, I2C, SPI, LIN, CAN, FlexRay, I2S, and 1553B.

For the example below I am decoding an I2C signal but the other protocols follow a similar set up.

• With my probes connected to the clock line and the data line of the signal I first need to set up the signals trigger.  To do this press the “Menu” button in the triggering section on the front panel of the instrument.  This is the right most “Menu” button.
• Next I changed the trigger type so that it is listing the correct decode type.
• With the Trigger type now set to I2C I now configure the SCL and SDA lines so that they are corresponding with the correct channel on the instrument.
• With the instrument now triggering on the I2C signal I can now enter the instruments decode menu.  To do this press decode.
• Once in the decode menu press “Copy Trig” and then switch “Bus Status” to “ON”.  You will start to see the instrument decoding the signal and displaying this in the middle of the display.
• Currently the signal is being decoded in a hex format, but this can easily be changed to either decode hex, binary, decinormal or ASCII.  To do this press “Display” and then press “Format” and change it to “ASCII”.  

• In the “Display” menu there are several different settings first you can change the decode format, then you can move the position of the decoded line, then there is the ability to label the signal and then finally the event table.
• Press “Event Table” and then turn ON the “Event Table”.  At this point it will be displayed in the middle of the screen.
• Change the format of the event table to ASCII by pressing “Format” and then select “ASC”.
• Change the view to payload, to do this press “View” and then select “Payload”. Here you will see the decoded signal being displayed in a matrix which this is a great way to view a serial signal all at once to quickly allow you to see if there is a problem with the serial signal.
• Next change “View” to “Packets”.  In this view you can scroll on the menu to view all of the data packets, in this case “RIGOL” you can see the time that it was sent in relationship to the trigger point, weather it is a read or write packet then address of the packet, the data and then if it was acknowledged.
• Another useful aspect of the event table is the jump to capability.  First press “SINGLE” then select the “6^th“ packet by pressing on it.  Notice that there are two dotted lines both above and below that packet and then press “Jump to”.  This will cause the instrument to automatically move the 6^th packet into the middle of the display so that you can zoom in on it.
• Exit out of the event table by pressing the “X” in the upper righthand corner of the window and then change the horizontal scaling to be 100 us by rotating the “Horizontal Scale” knob clock wise. 

The oscilloscope models including the MSO5000, DS7000, MSO7000, and MSO8000 all include the ability to create compact .BIN file types for saving to USB sticks or the internal hard drive.

The .BIN files are easy ways to save and archive display and memory data. Creating these files is done from the Storage/Save Wave menu. Here we show the settings used to save 10 MPts of deep memory to a USB stick mounted as the D Drive:




Complete the save process by pushing Save at the bottom right of the display.

Move the USB stick to your PC and put the Saved file, whose default name would be “RigolDS0.bin”), into a directory with the EXE file found in this zip package.


With both files in the same folder open the Command Prompt, navigate to the folder with the files, and then execute this command:



“out.csv” is the filename you desire for the output data. It should not yet exist. This is the command for a BIN file with a single channel in it. For multiple channels include a separate filename for each channel to be output.

Once completed, you can then open the output file with a utility like UltraEdit that allows you to view very long text based files. Here is a view of UltraEdit showing the end of the 10 Mpt file:

You can use Pass/Fail measurements for a number of applications. With this scope family you can set it up to stop or continue when there is a failure, you can have the instrument make a beep or take a screen shot when a failure occurs.  You can create masks with varying error budgets around a target signal, and you can even use the record mode to record all the failures as frames. In this way, you could set up a test over night, let it run, and come back and have all the failure states recorded for you.

• Press “Utility” and then press “PassFail”.
• Set “Enable” to ON.
• To change the mask parameters, press “Mask”, and then “Create”, you can then change the Masks X parameters and Y Parameters and even select if you would like to mask effect the full screen or between two cursor points.  Once this is done press “Create”.
• You can turn on the information display by first pressing “Back” and then press “Information” to turn on the display.
• At this point you can then turn on the mask by pressing “Operate” to begin your testing.

The MSO5000, DS7000 and MSO8000 can all use several different types of cursors to measure the signal.  These include manual, Track, XY and Measure.  Manual cursors allow you to set the X and Y relationship of the cursors to manually measure the signal.  Track cursors allow you to move in the X direction and the instrument keeps the cursor on the signal. XY cursors will be grayed out under normal operations but can be activated and used similar to the manual cursors when the instrument is placed into the XY view.  Finally the measure cursor can not be adjusted by the user but show exactly how the instrument is measuring the signal for a given measurement. 

To perform the measurements below I have connected one of the instrument probes to the probe compensation port so that we are able to view a square wave signal.

• Press “Measure”, press “Remove” and then press “Remove All” Delete all of your previously set measurements, then add “Frequency” as the only measurement. It should display on the screen. Then press “Cursor”, then set mode to “Measure” and turn on “Indicator”. It should now look like this:

The cursor is locked to the zero-crossing showing the time between consecutive waves.

• You can also show the “Track” and “Manual” modes of the “Cursor”.
• Use the “Intensity Knob” to move the cursor position.
• In “Manual” mode note that you can use the soft keys or touchscreen to highlight Cursor A, Cursor B or Cursor AB.  This determines which cursors will change with the “Intensity Knob”.  If you haven’t shown the Recording and Playback yet, this is a great time to show the Sinc or Sine wave signals and you can use the cursors on the recorded data.  That is a great way to do post-analysis of signals.

A reference signal can be created and stored on the scope to compare against later on.  It can either be save and recalled later or shown on the display. To save a reference press “Ref” and then press “SaveToRef” this will save a reference of your signal and display it behind the signal.  If you would like to save multiple references you r will need to change the current reference from Ref1 to Ref#.  Additionally the scaling and position of the reference signal can be changed using the touch screen or the intensity knob and labels, change the color and add details can be changed in the more section of the menu. 

Below I have taken a reference signal of the scopes compensation port and moved it up vertically to show the reference signal.  

Search and Navigation is a great feature to easily move around on long complex signals with multiple trigger events.  The Search and Navigation feature can be used when either an edge, pulse, runt, slop, RS232, I2C or SPI signal is being trigger on and can allow you to select a desired trigger point.

For this example I have channel one on the oscilloscope connected to a SPI data line to show the search and navigation features capabilities.

• Once the probe is connected press the “Auto” button, this will cause the instrument to trigger on the edge of the signal.  It will not be using a serial trigger at this time.
• Change the horizontal scaling so that it reads 50 ms.
• Press “Search” then set the “Threshold” with the “Intensity Knob” so that the orange dotted line is in the middle of the signal.
• Press “Back” and then turn the “Search” ON.
• Notice at the top of the display there are now a large number of white triangles and one red triangle these indicate all of the trigger events that the search and navigation function is recognizing.
• Press the “Stop/Run” button and then turn ON the “MarkTable”.  This will cause the Marker Table to appear on the screen.
• You are able to both scroll and then tap on any of the marked events and then the scope will automatically jump to them and they will then be marked in a red arrow.
• For instance, press on the 11^th event and then change your horizontal scaling to be zoom in on the signal.

The logic analyzer allows you to view up to 16 digital channels at once along with group them and label them to make your measurements easier to view.

• To activate the logic analyzer, press the “LA” button or the “L” section at the bottom of the display.  Note that the LA channels will allow you some vertical scaling control within the LA menu, but the horizontal scaling is controlled through the horizontal control knobs.
• Once you have entered the logic analyzer menu you can choose which channels you would like to turn on by pressing the “On/Off” section and then with in there you can either turn on or off each bank of eight channel or you can turn on or off specific channels.  Turn “OFF” channels “D15-D8”
• This is also where you can group your channels together by pressing “Group” and then you can select one of the four groups and then you can select which channels you would like to group together.  Group channels D0-D2 together, and then choose another group and group D5-D7 together.
• Then press “Back” and then press “Group On/Off” to turn on both groups.
• Press the “Back” button.
• To change the channel arrangement, press “Arrange”.  Notice how this will change how the channels will be positioned on the display either from D0-D7 or D7-D0.
• To change the vertical scaling of the channel press “Size” and then select “Large as your desired size.  This will then fill the entire display with the eight channels.
• Press “Label” and then turn “Display” ON. You will now see the channel labels being displayed on the left-hand side of the display, and you can also change these labels.  To change the labels press “Select” and choose your channel, then you can select a predefined label from the “Library” or you can create your own custom label by pressing “Label” and then you type one in with the onscreen keyboard.
• Add a “CLK” label to channel “D0” and then label “D7” with your name.

The signal generator allows you to both create standard waveforms but also allows you to easily create some custom waveforms as well as replicate a captured signal on the oscilloscope.

• To activate the logic analyzer, press either “GI” or “GII” on either the front panel of the instrument or at the bottom of the screen.
• To begin with to select your desired waveform press “Wave” and then you can select form several different built in waveforms as well as load arbitrary waveforms that you either created externally or by copying one of the scope analog channels.
• Within the waveform menu you can set the functions frequency, amplitude, offset, starting phase.
• To modulate, burst or sweep the signal, you will need to press “Settings”, then “Type” and then select your desired advanced feature.

• To create the signal below connect “GI” to “Channel 1” on the instrument with a BNC cable.
• Select “Sinc” as your waveform by pressing “Wave” and then “Sinc”.
• Then change the signals frequency to 10 kHz.  You can do this by either pressing on “Frequency” on the touch screen and then using the pop-up number pad or you can use the keys and then use the intensity knob to change the frequency settings.
• Press “AUTO” and you will see an image like the one below.

(The signal generator on the front of the MSO5000 and the DS7000 is a optional accessory, to activate them you will need to install a license.)