Agilent 6000 series

[rkesmodel]

Test engineers are sending me large (1Mb) .bin files of data saved from an Agilent DSO6104A Oscilloscope. I need to read the files into LabVIEW. Has anyone done this?

Thanx

[dnt]

QUOTE (rkesmodel @ May 1 2008, 04:38 PM)

Test engineers are sending me large (1Mb) .bin files of data saved from an Agilent DSO6104A Oscilloscope. I need to read the files into LabVIEW. Has anyone done this?

Thanx

This may work for you to get the data in a readable format.

Obtain the application Intuilink Data Capture for the Agilent 6000 scopes

from http://www.agilent.com/find' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">www.agilent.com/find Intuilink

This application can read the .bin format produced by the 6000 scope.

It can then save the data to a csv format file.

I tried this and it replicated the waveform in Excel(not 1Mpoints obviously).

[rkesmodel]

QUOTE (dnt @ May 2 2008, 05:00 PM)

This may work for you to get the data in a readable format.

Obtain the application Intuilink Data Capture for the Agilent 6000 scopes

from http://www.agilent.com/find' rel='nofollow' target="_blank">www.agilent.com/find Intuilink

This application can read the .bin format produced by the 6000 scope.

It can then save the data to a csv format file.

I tried this and it replicated the waveform in Excel(not 1Mpoints obviously).

Thanks for the suggestion, but I can already get the files in csv format. The problem is that these files can be a big as 103Mb. It takes quite a while to read in that large a file. That is why I was looking for a way to read the bin files.

[orko]

There is a utility written in MatLab to read in the Agilent Bin format and translate it into MatLab vectors, which you can download Here.

Reading through the "importAgilentBin.m" script, it would seem that it is just seeking through the file and extracting the relevant header/waveform information. I think that script will tell you a lot about the Agilent Bin format, so would be a really good place to start.