The Instrument Control Toolbox lets you communicate with in-

struments, such as oscilloscopes, function generators and signal

analyzers directly from MATLAB software. The toolbox enables

you to communicate with instruments via instrument drivers, such

as IVI and VXIplug&play, and commonly used communication pro-

tocols, such as GPIB, VISA, TCP/IP, and UDP. With the Instrument

Control Toolbox product, you can generate data in MATLAB to

send out to an instrument, or read data into MATLAB software for

analysis and visualization.

The Signal Processing Toolbox is a collection of industry stan-

dard algorithms for analog and digital signal processing (DSP).

Signal Processing Toolbox software also provides graphical user

interfaces for interactive design and analysis and command-line

functions for advanced algorithm development

The DSP System Toolbox provides algorithms, apps, and scopes

for designing, simulating, and analyzing signal processing sys-

systems for communications, radar, audio, medical devices, IoT,

and other applications.

Use MATLAB software packages with

the 86100D DCA-X oscilloscope

The DCA-X is able to interface with MATLAB using Option 201

so that you can apply almost any filtering or signal processing

algorithm you wish and see the results on the DCA-X immediately.

It is recommended that users of the DCA-X purchase “MATLAB

- Standard digital analysis package” as it provides MATLAB, the

DSP System Toolbox, and the Signal Processing Toolbox, which

are important toolboxes for developing and applying digital filters

to your oscilloscope signals.

Starting with firmware revision 8.02 you can also run MATLAB

scripts that you write yourself or that are recommended by stan-

dards such as IEEE 802.3, FC-PI-4 and others. This allows you to

see live Waveform Dispersion Penalty (WDP), non-compensatable

data-dependent jitter (ncDDJ) and other results right on your oscil-

loscope screen. Transmitter Waveform Dispersion Penality (TWDP)

is an example of a wrapper script as demonstrated in Figure 2.

Use MATLAB software packages with

Infiniium User-Defined Function (UDF)

Keysight offers an option with Infiniium Series oscilloscopes

called User-Defined Function that enables oscilloscope users to

process oscilloscope data in the MATLAB data analysis engine

and display the results as an additional oscilloscope channel.

User-defined function requires MATLAB software to create and

modify these custom analysis routines. It is recommended that

users of UDF also purchase “MATLAB - Standard Signal Analysis

Package” as it provides MATLAB and the Signal Processing Tool-

box, which is an important toolbox for developing and applying

digital filters to your oscilloscope signals.

Figure 1. Developing a new MATLAB application or modifying an existing

MATLAB application using the MATLAB Editor provided by MATLAB

Figure 2. Example of a MATLAB script, TWDP, that expands the measurement

functionality of the 86100D DCA-X by generating live, instant results viewable

directly on the DCA-X from within the “classic” user-interface.

Additional Details on Toolboxes Provided in the MATLAB Packages