Digital Oscilloscope Uses PC Sound Card for Input

Oscilloscope panel

Overview

Oscilloscope for Windows is a Windows application that converts your PC into a powerful dual-trace oscilloscope. Oscilloscope uses your PC's sound card as an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) to digitize any input waveform (speech, music, electric signal, etc.) and then presents it on the monitor in real time, allowing the user to control the display in the same way as on a conventional "standalone" scope, for example change gain, timebase or plot Lissajous patterns.

Main features

  • Any sound card can be used
  • Single trace, dual trace and XY modes
  • Spectrum analyzer (realtime, built-in)
  • 20 kHz bandwidth
  • Triggering
  • Point-and-click meter function
  • Storage mode
  • Data export to Windows clipboard or disk file
  • System requirements

    The current version of Oscilloscope, v.2.51, requires a 80486 or higher PC running Windows95. A stereo sound card with drivers installed is required (either 8- or 16-bit). An older release (v.2.30) is a 16-bit Windows 3.x application.

    Download Oscilloscope v. 2.51 now !(90618 bytes)

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    16-bit version still available

    For compatibility, the previous version of Oscilloscope (v.2.30, running under Windows 3.1) is available. However, this version will not be developed anymore.

    Download Oscilloscope for Windows 3.1(41877 bytes)


    Copyright statement

    Oscilloscope is free for personal use and can be redistributed provided it is not changed in any way, and no fee is requested. Terms for including Oscilloscope into any software packages are available from the author.
    The Oscilloscope is supplied "as is"; both the author and Moscow State University bear no responsibility with respect to any consequences of use or inability to use the Oscillloscope. The work on the Oscilloscope in not related to its author's study at MSU and is not supported by MSU. The source code for the Oscilloscope cannot be found on any of MSU-operated computers.
    Author's home page Hosted by Chair of Polymer and Crystal Physics
    Last Update: Nov. 10, 1997.
    Please email any questions concerning Oscilloscope to: zeld@polly.phys.msu.su