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Part 5: IEEE 488.2 Programming Reference
Digital Waveforms
While there is no corresponding template file for digital waveforms, they are organized similarly to analog
waveforms, with a text-based description of the header, followed by a Base64 encoding of the waveform
binary data. The following image shows how a small section of the waveform data would translate.
Digital waveforms are always saved in a text-based format, either Excel or WaveML (a proprietary XML
format). When saving multiple digital groups ("All Displayed"), the default selection is ASCII, and the output
will be separate XML files for each digital bus.
Note: When saving an entire digital group, all lines are combined. While digital group files can be
recalled into oscilloscope memory, they cannot be decoded in this format.
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