Manual

C HAPTER F OUR : Understanding and Managing Waveforms
WM-RCM-E Rev D ISSUED: February 2005 53
WAVEFORM?. The examination of data values for waveforms with two data arrays can be performed as
follows:
INSPECT? “DUAL” to get pairs of data values on a single line
INSPECT? “DATA_ARRAY_1” to get the values of the first data array
INSPECT? “DATA_ARRAY_2” to get the values of the second data array
INSPECT? has its limitations; it is useful, but also wordy. INSPECT? cannot be used to send a waveform back
to the oscilloscope. If you want to do this, or you want the information quickly, you should instead use
WAVEFORM. With WAVEFORM_SETUP it is possible to examine just a part of the waveform or a sparsed
form of it. See the following pages.
If you’re a BASIC user you might also find it convenient to use INSPECT? and WAVEFORM? together to
construct files containing a version of the waveform descriptor that both you and BASIC can read. Using a
stored waveform, this can be done in a format suitable for retransfer to the instrument with MC:INSPECT?
“WAVEDESC”;WAVEFORM?, and then placing the response directly into a disk file.