LeCroy Oscilloscopes - MATLAB Instrument Driver

MATLAB instrument driver for LeCroy oscilloscopes such as SDA, WaveMaster, WavePro, and WaveRunner

Description

MATLAB is a software environment and programming language used to configure and control instruments such as oscilloscopes, filter signals, make measurements, analyze data, and build test systems.

MATLAB supports LeCroy oscilloscopes through the Instrument Control Toolbox. This MATLAB instrument driver is for use with Instrument Control Toolbox v2.4.1 and higher.

This is a standalone MATLAB instrument driver that does not require any additional instrument drivers to operate.

Try using this driver if a MATLAB instrument driver for your specific LeCroy oscilloscope is not available. Note: This is a basic MATLAB instrument driver and not specific to any specific oscilloscope model. It is expected to work on newer LeCroy oscilloscope models including scopes from the SDA, WaveMaster, WavePro, and WaveRunner Series. However, this driver has not been tested on all LeCroy oscilloscopes.

We would appreciate feedback on this instrument driver. Please provide feedback using the submission reviews feature on this page. Please include what instrument model you used with this driver.

For additional information on MATLAB instrument drivers visit the Instrument Control Toolbox product page: http://www.mathworks.com/products/instrument

For information on using MATLAB with LeCroy oscilloscopes, visit:
http://www.mathworks.com/lecroy

To download a Getting Started Guide for using MATLAB with your LeCroy oscilloscopes, visit http://www.mathworks.com/lecroy/start

NOTE: Some browsers may render the driver file rather than saving the file to disk. If this occurs, select "Save As..." from the File menu of your browser to save the driver data to a local file.

• Required Products: Instrument Control Toolbox
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.3 (R2006b)

[Matthew Willis]

This driver works terrific for Windows machines--it is much appreciated.

[However, it does not appear to work on Linux machines, which is too bad--I have been trying to keep my MatLab scripts platform independent, so that I can toggle between Windows and Linux computers with MatLab as the portability crutch. Must be some hardware discrepancy when it comes to TCP/IP? Not sure.]

[pippo caiio]

ciao

[giuseppe liberti]

 

[Fabrizio Mezzetti]

I try this driver with the WaveRunne 104xi and i had any problems: sometime, when I try to read oscilloscope waveform, I recive this error:
icgroup.invoke at 90 Reference to non-existent field 'wd'
Why?
Can you help me, please?

[Fabrizio Mezzetti]

How do I do to connect my LeCroy oscilloscope waverunner 104xi for read waveform, with Simulink blokset "query instrument"? Thank you

[Tim]

Works most of the time, but theres *no* documentation, and I get a lot of random timeouts and errors. And there are a *lot* of different errors. I've seen at least the following:

"non-existent field 'wd'"
"no appriopriate method property of field supportOutput for class"
Something about string formatting (wtf?)
Something about the header not being 8 bytes long.
Generic timeouts - didn't receive any data. This also happens when connecting a lot.

In all cases the solution is to disconnect and try again. Buggy doesn't begin to describe it...

[Stanislav Lokshin]

My scope WaveAce 102 has only USB connection. Does MatLab support USB connection with LeCroy scopes?

[marta Csatari]

I have downloaded this file, but instead of getting an mdd file as I expected I got it in xml format. Can anyone tell me how do I use this as a driver or convert it to mdd?

[Phillip Anderson]

this was working well for a while, but now i'm getting all the same errors report by others (specifically the header error when i try to connect, and the wd error when i try to read a waveform). i'm not sure what changed in my setup that caused these problems to arise. very frustrating though.

using the waverunner 204MXi and instrument control toolbox version 2.5

[Jason]

This is a nice item, however I notice the max InputBufferSize is less than the largest scope waveform size (48MS). Hence I can't seem to download largest files possible. Is this hardware limitation or due to Matlab driver code?

BTW, would be nice to step through drive code in debug mode to see where fails occur, and not have so much "Private Evaluation" when I can clearly see the code anyway in Instr.Driver.Editor (or just by opening .mdd file in text editor).

[yiming ding]

I use the Lecroy wave runner 6100A, but there is a error using is that icgroup invoke reference to non-existent field 'wd'

how to solve it ?