RIGOL · Spectrum analyzer

RIGOL DSA800 series spectrum analyzer

BenchMesh controls the RIGOL DSA800 series spectrum analyzer from your PC: live readings on a spectrum analyzer panel, every setting within reach, and every value recordable on one timeline with the rest of your bench.

Models

Model	Status	Note
DSA815	Awaiting confirmation
DSA815-TG	Awaiting confirmation
DSA832	Awaiting confirmation
DSA832-TG	Awaiting confirmation
DSA832E	Awaiting confirmation
DSA875	Awaiting confirmation
DSA875-TG	Awaiting confirmation

What you can do from BenchMesh

Spectrum analyzer panel 1 channel

Live readings

ATTEN
ATTEN AUTO
CENTER
DETECTOR
MARKER
MARKER FREQ
MARKER LEVEL
POINTS
RBW
RBW AUTO
REF LEVEL
SCALE
SPAN
START
STOP
SWEEPING
SWEEP MODE
SWEEP TIME
TG LEVEL
TG OUTPUT
TRACE
TRACE MODE
TRACE UNIT
VBW
VBW AUTO

Settings you can change

Atten auto
Attenuation
Center
Detector
Full span
Marker
Marker freq
Peak search
Points
Rbw
Rbw auto
Ref level
Scale
Span
Start
Stop
Sweep
Sweep time
Tg level
Tg output
Trace mode
Vbw
Vbw auto

Connections

USB-TMC: USB Test & Measurement Class (USB id 1ab1). No vendor driver needed on Linux; on Windows BenchMesh installs Microsoft’s WinUSB driver with one click.
LAN (SCPI socket): TCP port 5555. Enter the instrument’s IP address.

Notes

To confirm on first contactUSB product id not documented: vendor id only.

Sources

The definition was written from these documents (definition rigol_dsa800 v0.1.0).

DSA800 Programming Guide (DSA800_ProgrammingGuide_EN.pdf, Aug 2016), pages PDF p38-55 CALCulate:MARKer, p70 DISPlay RLEVel/PDIVision, p86 FORMat, p94 *IDN?, p97-98 INITiate, p110 OUTPut, p128-129 BANDwidth, p143 DETector, p148-153 FREQuency, p160 POWer:ATTenuation, p170 SWEep, p180 SOURce, p185 STATus:OPERation, p210-217 TRACe

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.

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