Soft Oscilloscope

The soft oscilloscope (commonly known as softscope or scope) is a tool used to view, in a two-dimensional graph, one or more variable's evolution (vertical axis) across the time (horizontal axis).

Scope View

Figure 1: Example of using the Oscilloscope

The soft oscilloscope is a child window in the workspace.

This workspace has two visually distinct parts separated by a splitter which allows you to change the size of the two panes.

Control Panel

  • The Oscilloscope Control Panel () is used to:
    • Assign variables to a channel.
    • Change the settings of the soft oscilloscope (including those of the channels).

Graphical Area


  • You can hide the control panel by dragging the splitter all the way to the left.
    To show the control panel again, click and drag the splitter to the right.

Access the Soft Oscilloscope

In order to access the softscope, select the Oscilloscope command from the Tools menu.

Accessing the Scope

Figure 2: Accessing the Scope

About OpenGL

For the Graphical Area, the scope uses OpenGL for performance reasons.

If you encounter problems in the quality of drawings, we suggest that you consider these options before contacting our support desk:


  • Disabling most or all OpenGL accelerations is compensated by an increase in CPU consumption.
    It can lead to a point where the soft oscilloscope is not very usable when limited hardware is trying to display loads of samples.
    See System Requirements for more information.