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Oscilloscope Software Development Kit (SDK)

The SDK allows you to write your own software and includes drivers for Windows, macOS and Linux (including beta versions for Raspberry Pi and Beaglebone).

Example code, hosted on the Pico Technology GitHub pages, shows how to interface to third-party software packages such as Microsoft Excel, National Instruments LabVIEW and MathWorks MATLAB and programming languages like C, C#, C++, and VB.NET.

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PicoScope for MATLAB

MathWorks MATLAB

This example shows waveforms captured with a PicoScope 4000 Series instrument, processed and the results displayed with MathWorks MATLAB.

For more information see PicoScope Support from Instrument Control Toolbox on the MathWorks site.

Pico Technology is a MathWorks Connections Program partner

Pico Technology is a MathWorks Connections Program Partner
 

PicoScope 3000 used with LabVIEW

National Instruments LabVIEW

Here, a PicoScope 3000 Series mixed signal oscilloscope is being controlled from LabVIEW.

PicoScope 2000 programming example with Microsoft Visual Basic.

PicoScope excel VBA

Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications

In this example a PicoScope 2000 Series oscilloscope is being programmed with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) code in Microsoft Excel with the acquired data displayed in a spreadsheet.

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C, C++

PicoScope oscilloscopes can be programmed using popular languages such as C and C++. Here, a section of C code is managing the PicoScope 5000 Series power supply.

C#

The image to the right shows a PicoScope 2000 Series oscilloscope being controlled by an application written using the C# programming language

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Microsoft VB.NET

VB.NET (Visual Basic .NET) is a popular high-level programming language implemented on the .NET Framework. Here VB.NET code is being used to set the parameters of a PicoScope 5000 Series scope before making a waveform acquisition.