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Measuring the Propagation delay using Tektronix 3000 oscilloscope.

Hi,

 

Can any body help me in measuring the Propagation delay?

I want display this on Lab view front panel using Tektronix TDS3000 series Scope.

 

I mean I want to measure the time duration between 2 signals connected on channle1 and channel2.

 

Regards

Narendra

 

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Usually this is done with the "delay" measurement on Tek scopes. I looked through the TDS3000 LabVIEW library and it doesn't look like this measurement is implemented on the TDS3000 series.

There should be another way to do this though. You will know where the first signal is based on the trigger threshold. You could then read the second waveform as an array of doubles. You could iterate through the array and find the point where it crosses the value of the trigger threshold.

Alternatively, you could read both waveforms as arrays, iterate through the voltages of both waveforms until you see the values you want, then subtract the indices to the arrays and multiply that by the horizontal resolution.

It looks like the LabVIEW driver implements everything necessary to support both ways of doing this.
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