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GW Instek · Oscilloscope

GW Instek GDS-1000B series digital oscilloscope

BenchMesh controls the GW Instek GDS-1000B series digital oscilloscope from your PC: live readings on a oscilloscope panel, every setting within reach, and every value recordable on one timeline with the rest of your bench.

Models

ModelStatus
GDS-1054BAwaiting confirmation
GDS-1072BAwaiting confirmation
GDS-1074BAwaiting confirmation
GDS-1102BAwaiting confirmation
GDS-1104BAwaiting confirmation

What you can do from BenchMesh

Oscilloscope panel 4 channels

Live readings

  • ACQ TYPE
  • BWLIMIT
  • COUPLING
  • DISPLAY
  • FREQ
  • INVERT
  • OFFSET
  • PROBE
  • SCALE
  • TIMEBASE
  • TIMEOFFSET
  • TRIG LEVEL
  • TRIG SLOPE
  • TRIG SOURCE
  • TRIG STATUS
  • TRIG SWEEP
  • VAVG
  • VPP
  • VRMS

Settings you can change

  • Acquire type
  • Bwlimit
  • Coupling
  • Display
  • Invert
  • Offset
  • Probe
  • Run
  • Scale
  • Timebase
  • Timebase offset
  • Trigger level
  • Trigger slope
  • Trigger source
  • Trigger sweep

Connections

USB-serial / RS-232
115200 baud, 8N1. Plug in the USB cable (or a USB-RS-232 adapter); BenchMesh finds the port.
LAN (SCPI socket)
TCP port 3000. Enter the instrument’s IP address.

Notes

  • To confirm on first contactThe socket server has no default port in the guide: give host:port when adding it.

Sources

The definition was written from these documents (definition gwinstek_gds1000b v0.1.0).

  • GDS-1000B Programming Manual (GDS-1000B_Programming_Manual.pdf); printed page = PDF page, pages p5-7 USB CDC, p8-12 LAN / socket server, p16-17 syntax, p29 *IDN?, p36-41 ACQuire/HEADer, p42 AUTOSet, p43-48 CHANnel, p77-93 MEASure, p112 RUN/STOP/SINGle, p114-115 TIMebase, p119-122 TRIGger, p131-132 TRIGger:STATe?

Have one on your bench?

Connect it, press Detect, try the controls - then tell us how it went. Every confirmation moves a model from “Awaiting” to “Community-confirmed” for everyone.