ngscopeclient Operator Manual

ngscopeclient Project

August 1, 2026

Copyright ©2012-2026 Andrew D. Zonenberg and contributors. All rights reserved.

This document may be freely distributed and modified under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Documentation Conventions
1.3 Key Concepts
1.4 Stability Notes
1.5 Revision History
2 Legal Notices
2.1 Introduction
2.2 License Agreement
2.3 Trademarks
2.4 Third Party Licenses
3 Getting Started
3.1 Host System Requirements
3.2 Instrument Support
3.3 Installation
3.4 Compilation
3.5 Running ngscopeclient
4 Tutorials
4.1 The Basics
5 Main Window
5.1 Menu
5.2 Toolbar
6 Dialogs
6.1 Lab Notes
6.2 Log Viewer
6.3 Measurements
6.4 Performance Metrics
6.5 Preferences
6.6 Speed Bump
7 Workspaces and Window Management
7.1 Window Management and Docking
7.2 Workspaces
8 Waveform Groups
8.1 Managing Groups
9 Waveform Views
9.1 Navigation
9.2 Plot Area
9.3 Y Axis Scale
9.4 Channel Label
9.5 Cursors and Markers
10 History
10.1 Pinning
10.2 Labeling
11 Stream Browser
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Filters
11.3 Instruments
11.4 Adding streams
12 Filter Graph Editor
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Interaction
12.3 Grouping
13 Transports
13.1 gpib
13.2 lan
13.3 lxi
13.4 null
13.5 socketcan
13.6 twinlan
13.7 uart
13.8 usbtmc
13.9 vicp
13.10 hid
14 BERT Drivers
14.1 Antikernel Labs
14.2 MultiLANE
15 Function Generator Drivers
15.1 Owon
15.2 Rigol
15.3 Siglent
16 Electronic Load Drivers
16.1 Siglent
17 Multimeter Drivers
17.1 Owon
17.2 Rohde & Schwarz
18 Miscellaneous Drivers
18.1 Antikernel Labs
18.2 Generic
19 Oscilloscope Drivers
19.1 Agilent
19.2 Antikernel Labs
19.3 Demo
19.4 Batronix
19.5 Digilent
19.6 DrAndyHaas
19.7 DreamSource Lab
19.8 EEVengers
19.9 Enjoy Digital
19.10 Generic
19.11 Hantek
19.12 Keysight
19.13 Pico Technology
19.14 Rigol
19.15 Rohde & Schwarz
19.16 Saleae
19.17 Siglent
19.18 Teledyne LeCroy / LeCroy
19.19 Tektronix
19.20 tinySA
19.21 Xilinx
20 SDR Drivers
20.1 Ettus Research
20.2 Microphase
21 Spectrometer Drivers
21.1 ASEQ Instruments
22 Power Supply Drivers
22.1 Alientek
22.2 GW Instek
22.3 Kuaiqu
22.4 Riden
22.5 Rigol
22.6 Rohde & Schwarz
22.7 Siglent
22.8 Sinilink
23 RF Generator Drivers
23.1 Siglent
24 VNA Drivers
24.1 Copper Mountain
24.2 NanoVNA
24.3 Pico Technology
25 Triggers
25.1 Trigger Properties
25.2 Serial Pattern Triggers
25.3 Dropout
25.4 Edge
25.5 Glitch
25.6 Pulse Width
25.7 Runt
25.8 Slew Rate
25.9 UART
25.10 Window
26 Filters
26.1 Introduction
26.2 1-Wire
26.3 128b/130b
26.4 2-Port Shunt Through
26.5 64b/66b
26.6 8B/10B (IBM)
26.7 8B/10B (TMDS)
26.8 AC Couple
26.9 AC RMS
26.10 Add
26.11 ADL5205
26.12 APB
26.13 Area Under Curve
26.14 Autocorrelation
26.15 Average
26.16 Bandwidth
26.17 Base
26.18 BIN Import
26.19 Burst Width
26.20 Bus Heatmap
26.21 CAN
26.22 CAN Analyzer
26.23 CAN Bitmask
26.24 Can-Utils Import
26.25 Channel Emulation
26.26 Clip
26.27 Clock Jitter (TIE)
26.28 Clock Recovery (D-PHY HS Mode)
26.29 Clock Recovery (PLL)
26.30 Clock Recovery (UART)
26.31 Complex Import
26.32 Complex Spectrogram
26.33 Constant
26.34 Constellation
26.35 Coupler De-Embed
26.36 CSV Export
26.37 CSV Import
26.38 CTLE
26.39 Current Shunt
26.40 DCD
26.41 DDJ
26.42 DDR1 Command Bus
26.43 DDR3 Command Bus
26.44 De-Embed
26.45 Deskew
26.46 Digital Constant
26.47 Digital to Analog
26.48 Digital to NRZ
26.49 Digital to PAM4
26.50 DisplayPort - Aux Channel
26.51 DisplayPort - Main Link
26.52 Divide
26.53 Downconvert
26.54 Downsample
26.55 DRAM Clocks
26.56 DRAM Trcd
26.57 DRAM Trfc
26.58 Duty Cycle
26.59 DVI
26.60 Emphasis
26.61 Emphasis Removal
26.62 Enhanced Resolution
26.63 Envelope
26.64 Ethernet - 10baseT
26.65 Ethernet - 100baseT1
26.66 Ethernet - 100baseT1 Link Training
26.67 Ethernet - 100baseTX
26.68 Ethernet - 1000baseX
26.69 Ethernet - 10Gbase-R
26.70 Ethernet - QSGMII
26.71 Ethernet - RMII
26.72 Ethernet - SGMII
26.73 Ethernet Autonegotiation
26.74 Ethernet Autonegotiation Page
26.75 Ethernet Base-X Autonegotiation
26.76 Exponential Moving Average
26.77 Eye Bit Rate
26.78 Eye Height
26.79 Eye P-P Jitter
26.80 Eye Pattern
26.81 Eye Period
26.82 Eye Width
26.83 Fall
26.84 FFT
26.85 FIR
26.86 Frequency
26.87 Full Width at Half Maximum
26.88 Gate
26.89 Glitch Removal
26.90 Group Delay
26.91 Histogram
26.92 Horizontal Bathtub
26.93 HDMI
26.94 \(I^2C\)
26.95 \(I^2C\) EEPROM
26.96 \(I^2C\) Register
26.97 IBIS Driver
26.98 Invert
26.99 Intel eSPI
26.100 IPv4
26.101 IQ Demux
26.102 IQ Squelch
26.103 J1939 Analog
26.104 J1939 Bitmask
26.105 J1939 PDU
26.106 J1939 Source Match
26.107 J1939 Transport
26.108 Jitter
26.109 Jitter Spectrum
26.110 JTAG
26.111 Magnitude
26.112 Maximum
26.113 MDIO
26.114 Memory
26.115 MIL-STD-1553
26.116 Minimum
26.117 MIPI D-Phy Data
26.118 MIPI D-Phy Escape Mode
26.119 MIPI D-Phy Symbol
26.120 MIPI DSI Frame
26.121 MIPI DSI Packet
26.122 Moving Average
26.123 Multiply
26.124 NCO
26.125 Noise
26.126 Overshoot
26.127 PAM4 Demodulator
26.128 PAM Edge Detector
26.129 PcapNG Export
26.130 PcapNG Import
26.131 PCIe Data Link
26.132 PCIe Gen 1/2 Logical
26.133 PCIe Gen 3/4/5 Logical
26.134 PCIe Link Training
26.135 PCIe Transport
26.136 Peak Hold
26.137 Peak-to-Peak
26.138 Peaks
26.139 Period
26.140 Phase
26.141 Phase Nonlinearity
26.142 Point Sample
26.143 PRBS
26.144 Pulse Width
26.145 QSPI
26.146 Quadrature
26.147 Reference Plane Extension
26.148 RGB LED
26.149 RIS
26.150 Rise
26.151 Rj + BUj
26.152 RMS
26.153 S-Parameter Cascade
26.154 Sawtooth
26.155 S-Parameter De-Embed
26.156 Scalar Pulse Delay
26.157 Scalar Stairstep
26.158 SD Card Command
26.159 Setup / Hold
26.160 Sine
26.161 SNR
26.162 Spectrogram
26.163 SPI
26.164 SPI Flash
26.165 Squelch
26.166 Step
26.167 Subtract
26.168 SWD
26.169 SWD MEM-AP
26.170 Tachometer
26.171 Tapped Delay Line
26.172 TCP
26.173 TDR
26.174 Time Outside Level
26.175 Thermal Diode
26.176 Threshold
26.177 Top
26.178 Touchstone Export
26.179 Touchstone Import
26.180 Trend
26.181 TRC Import
26.182 UART
26.183 Unwrapped Phase
26.184 USB 1.0 / 2.x Activity
26.185 USB 1.0 / 2.x Packet
26.186 USB 1.0 / 2.x PCS
26.187 USB 1.0 / 2.x PMA
26.188 Undershoot
26.189 Upsample
26.190 VCD Import
26.191 Vector Frequency
26.192 Vector Phase
26.193 Vertical Bathtub
26.194 VICP
26.195 Waterfall
26.196 WAV Import
26.197 WFM Import
26.198 Windowed Autocorrelation
26.199 Window
26.200 X-Y Sweep