Why min and max buffers?

[CommanderLake]

I'm trying to stream raw adc data from my 2208B, but I can only get min and max buffers from the scope, why can't I just get the raw adc values?

[NeilH]

Hi

When using SetDataBuffers you set up a maxBuffer and a minBuffer as when using aggregation downsampling you will get two different values per downsampled sample into these two buffers, if you are not using that downsampling mode then the two buffers will have the same data in them so you would only need one. If you are not downsampling you can instead use the SetDataBuffer where you only set up a single buffer to return the data to. All the data returned from the scope will be raw ADC counts, any conversion to V will be done within the coding of the custom application.

Neil

[CommanderLake]

Thanks, I discovered the manual pdf eventually.