PicoScope 7 Software
Available on Windows, Mac and Linux
Although our Software is free to download and use, the software content is proprietary. The psdata format enables you to snapshot a complete setup and data capture, and is therefore heavily protected to avoid giving away information about the software content. So, for this reason, there is no provided method, in any of our technology, to decode a psdata file.
The command Line Interface for PicoScope 6 was originally developed for internal testing purposes many years ago, when we only had a windows version of PicoScope 6. Since then we have moved onto more sophisticated test setups, and porting PicoScope 6 to other platforms, but the CLI has not been removed from the Windows builds of PicoScope 6. There was never any intention for the CLI to be used by customers, for instance, the only documentation available is an incomplete list of commands, and there has never been any improvement upon that. As I’m sure you’re aware, we now have our SDK for customers to write their own, custom, applications, interfacing directly with the driver itself, with well documented driver commands. So there was never a need to spend valuable time porting the CLI to the other platform versions of PicoScope 6.
Moving forward with PicoScope 7, as far as I’m aware, there is no intention to transfer a no longer internally used test system to the new version, certainly not when we're aiming to fully release the software as soon as possible (and as our development tools support cross-platform development natively, this would apply to all platform versions). However, I can appreciate that being able to convert psdata files to csv files in bulk is not something supported by our SDK, so I could put in a feature request for PicoScope 7, to our development team, on your behalf. Just be aware that, bearing in mind the proprietary nature of our psdata files, the response may be if rather than when such an inclusion will be added to the software.
Regards,
Pico Technical Support Team