Channel Labels

Now we focus on the left hand side of the UI, which is the channel label area. This is where we can manage all our channels, buses, and protocol decoders.

What's displayed in the channel label area?

• Channel names and numbers
• Bus groupings
• Protocol decode configurations
• Signal activity indicators (if enabled)
• Trigger conditions (if enabled)

Label Types

Digital Channel

Analog Channel

Note

Only available for Mixed-Signal Oscilloscope series.

Parallel Bus

Protocol Decoder

For protocol decoders, there is a icon on the top-right corner of the label. Clicking on it will open the protocol decoder settings dialog.

Operations

Add channels

Once you click the icon, a dropdown list will popup to show you a list of options you can add.

Delete channels

Select the labels to delete first, then click on the button to delete the selected labels.

Combine channels

Drag one label onto another to form parallel buses.

Customization

Left-click on a channel label to open the channel settings dialog.

This allows you to:

• Adjust the source for this channel label by selecting from the Signal dropdown list (it does not change the actual recorded data)
• Rename channels by editing the text field
• Editing Display Format
• Editing Colors
• Choose whether to use inverted display

Tip

Use descriptive names like "SDA", "Clock", "CS" instead of "CH0", "CH1" to make it easier to understand.

For protocol decoders, you can check the Suspend Decode checkbox to prevent the decoder analyze the data once the waveform area refreshes.