Using four oscilloscopes at once with glscopeclient

0:00 Introduction
0:08 PRBS generator board
1:16 Experimental setup for SERDES dropout debug
1:34 Setup of primary scope
2:48 Setup of secondary scope, virtual triggering, pre-sync
7:35 Trigger skew calibration
8:45 CDR trigger jitter discussion
9:40 Experimental setup for multi-timescale debug
11:25 Investigation of SERDES dropout and I2C traffic
14:09 Experimental setup for QSPI flash with four scopes
15:06 QSPI flash analysis with four scopes
16:10 Using protocol analyzers, history, and markers in multiscope environments
Get the code to try it out yourself! github.com/glscopeclient/scop...

[@oly463]

It's looking good , thanks for sharing

[@manfred4283]

I would like to try this Software. Any plans to make installation a bit easier like providing deb package or even a PPA? Does it support Siglent waveform files for offline analysis?

[@AndrewZonenberg]

I'm not sure what the Siglent binary waveform file format is. We support Teledyne LeCroy .trc, Tektronix .wfm, and Keysight/Agilent (and some Rigol) .bin. We also support CSV, VCD, raw I/Q, and a few other generic interchange formats. We have experimental deb-format packaging set up by a Debian maintainer, but it's not built automatically during CI builds. Still not what I'd consider release grade yet.

[@manfred4283]

Thanks for the feedback. Tektronix wfm sounds great as well. Might be an alternative to the Tekscope software we use at work some day. Siglent is able to save csv files. So this should be an option if the bin files are not yet supported. Great project anyway, i'm looking forward to a beta that is ready for endusers. Thanks for your work!

[@theelmonk]

@@manfred4283 When installing applications like this with many dependencies I usually find problems with some of them - perhaps the author has installed more recent packages, or used some latecomer in the shifting sands that is Python. Sometimes it's fixable, sometimes it requires more knowledge than I've got, But this is not one of those, it's very competently built. I followed the build instructions (on Debian 11) with minor variations to suit my preferred directory layout and it all came together without a hitch. I'm hoping working with live data will be an equally pleasant experience. The only suggestion I can add is that it would be great if there were some example saved files to permit experimenting with the interface before tackling the hardware. Perhaps there are and I haven't found them yet.