Osqoop - A free software oscilloscope

Saturday, 28 November 2009 14:57

Osqoop is an open source software oscilloscope. It features an arbitrary number of channels and long acquisition durations. Signal processing and external peripherals control is possible through a plugin architecture. Data sources are plugins as well. Osqoop is easy to learn thanks to an ergonomic user interface. For the power user, keyboard shortcuts allow fast and effective interactions. Osqoop allows us to test several digital signal processing algorithms, varying their parameters and observing the result in real-time.Osqoop provides the following features:

Arbitrary number of channels and acquisition durations (required memory = nbChannels * nbSamples * 2);
Data sources as plugins: externals or software, examples and writing guide provided;
Signal processing through plugins: control of external hardware possible, examples and writing guide provided, save and load of plugins configurations;
Modular architecture, documented C++ code;
Trigger support: simple, automatic, none, up slope, down slope and both;
Rich display: points or lines, zoom on part of the signal, instant freeze on key press, permanent mode with progressive fadeout.
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Osqoop can be used in several projects like as testing tool, for instance to measure new analogue sensors or in a project, whose goal is the creation of a new fast data source, e.g. based on an FPGA and connected through USB2 and so on. Osqoop, based on Qt 4, a graphical user interface library, is free software under the GNU GPL license and can thus be used and modified freely. For any further information click here for original website or here for GIT/Wiki.