Superscope is a general purpose data collection and analysis program, similar to LabView (described above). It is a very powerful research tool, but is also used in teaching. From within SuperScope, you can design programs that will collect and process data in many different ways. While the design process is not as graphical as in LabVIEW, the basic idea and functionality is the same. SuperScope is more tightly focused on data acquisition and is quicker to get up and running, but less customizable. Elements of the user interface (graphs, buttons, etc.) can be positioned in a window and assigned tasks written in a macro language. However, SuperScope is not a programming environment (for better or worse, you pick). SuperScopes macro language does include a library of data analysis routines.

(I have not used Superscope extensively, and so are not providing a review).

Computer: Macintosh

Source: GW Instruments, 617-625-4096.

Cost: High

Last update 22nd of January 1996