User Guide
RIGOL  Chapter 8 Protocol Decoding 
8-2  MSO1000Z/DS1000Z User’s Guide 
Parallel Decoding 
Parallel bus consists of clock line and data line. As shown in the figure below, CLK is 
the clock line, while Bit0 and Bit1 are the 0 bit and 1st bit on the data line respectively. 
The oscilloscope will sample the channel data on the rising edge, falling edge or the 
rising/falling edge of the clock and judge each data point (logic “1” or logic “0”) 
according to the preset threshold level. 
Figure 8-1 Parallel Decoding 
Press MATH  Decode1  Decoder to select “Parallel” and open the parallel 
decoding function menu. 
1.  Press Decode to turn on or off the decoding function. 
2.  Clock Line Setting (CLK) 
  Press CLK to select any channel (CH1-CH4 or D0-D15) as the clock channel. 
If “OFF” is selected, no clock channel is set. 
  Press Edge to set the oscilloscope to sample the channel data on the rising 
edge (
), falling edge ( ) or rising/falling edge ( ) of the clock. If 
no clock channel is selected, the instrument will sample when the channel 
data jumps during the decoding. 
3.  Digital Bus 
Press BUS to select the digital bus for parallel decoding. This setting will 
automatically modify the settings of Width, Bit X and CH, as shown in the table 
below. 
BUS 
Width 
BitX 
CH 
Note 
D7-D0 
8 
0 
D0 
Bit0 to Bit7 are set to D0 to D7 respectively.  
D15-D8 
8 
0 
D8 
Bit0 to Bit7 are set to D8 to D15 respectively. 
D15-D0 
16 
0 
D0 
Bit0 to Bit15 are set to D0 to D15 respectively. 
D0-D7 
8 
0 
D7 
Bit0 to Bit7 are set to D7 to D0 respectively. 
D8-D15 
8 
0 
D15 
Bit0 to Bit7 are set to D15 to D8 respectively. 
D0-D15 
16 
0 
D15 
Bit0 to Bit15 are set to D15 to D0 respectively. 










