How to Save Waveform in Pen Drive From a DSO

Follow the steps to save your DSO waveform in BMP/PNG/JPEG format in pen drive of 4GB or less:

Agilent DSO1002A:

Insert pen drive----> Create Folder/File----> Save

Step 1: Insert your pen drive in the USB port right below the DSO screen.

As soon as the pen drive get detected by the DSO a message will come on the screen “USB Device Installed”.

Then press “Save/Recall” button of the DSO.

Save/Recall information column will appear on the right side of the DSO screen.

Then press the button just right to the heading “Storage” and it will show the different storage format. Use the multipurpose knob to switch through different format and select the format by pressing the same.

Step-2:

Then push the button adjacent to the heading “External” to navigate to the folder menu. Here you can create folder and file where to save and you can delete them as well. 

By default the explorer is ‘File’, press the button adjacent to it to change it to ‘Directories’. Then use the multipurpose knob to switch between different directories inside the pen drive and press it to select a directory to save the wave form.

 If you want to create a folder you can do it by pressing the button adjacent to the heading ’NewFolder’. You can edit the name by using multifunction knob. Then press the button adjacent to the heading ‘Explorer’ to switch over back to file explorer of selected directory. Now press the button adjacent to the ‘New File’ and give it to a name by using multifunction knob.

Step-3:

And then finally press the button adjacent to the heading “Save” to save the wave form. 

Then remove your pen drive. Now the saved image will look like this:

Tektronix DSO TBS1022:

Insert pen drive----> Save    or

Insert pen drive-----> Create Folder----->Save

Insert your pen drive in the USB port at bottom right corner below the screen. If the pen drive is detected then a message will come up on the screen like this.

It’s recommended that always use blank pen drive so that the verification time will less. Then press the button “Save/Recall”, SAVE/REC information column will appear right side of the screen.

Press the button adjacent to the heading ‘Action’ and choose ‘Save Image’. Then press the button adjacent to the heading “File Format” and select the file type ‘JPEG’.

 Now you can save the waveform image by pressing the button adjacent to the tag “Save TEK001.JPG”. it will save the file directly on the pen drive. If you want to save the waveform inside a folder then press the button adjacent to the heading “Select Folder”

it will navigate you through file and folder explorer. Use the multipurpose knob to highlight the folder, if you have any folder in the pen drive previously otherwise you can create a new folder by pressing the button adjacent to the heading “NewFolder” and rename the folder.

Then a folder you created will appear on the screen. Use the multipurpose knob to highlight the folder and press the button adjacent to the heading “ChangeFolder”, now you are inside that selected folder.

We cannot create a file and give a name to it to save the wave form, the Tektronix software gives a default file name like ‘TEK001.JPG’ etc. Now don’t press the save button here, otherwise it will save the screen what is appearing right now instead of waveform.

Press the Save/Recall button again, it will take you to the waveform screen having save option too. Immediately you can see the current folder path shortly appearing on the left side bottom corner of the screen.

Now you can press the button adjacent to the save image heading to save the wave form image in the selected folder. A clock like symbol will appear right side bottom corner of the screen showing that the file is being saved into the pen drive. Now a message will appear on bottom of the screen that “Current screen display saved to A:NewFolder\TEK001.JPEG”.

Now it’s done, your waveform has been saved successfully in to the pen drive. Now the saved image will look like this: