Applications

What is the Importance of Resolution in an Oscilloscope?

When looking at the oscilloscope feature of a multi-instrument device or when comparing two benchtop oscilloscopes, the first specifications that we look at are the bandwidth and sample rate. While these …

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Using Linux and Ethernet to Upload Data to ThingSpeak

- by David Horn - 2 Comments.

Have you recently acquired a bunch of data and are trying to figure out what to do with it? Using the Analog Discovery Pro 3450‘s (or ADP3250’s, for that matter) …

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Using a Test Instrument with Raspberry Pi

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Raspberry Pi 4 is Adafruit’s popular tiny desktop computer. At only $35, it’s widely considered the standard in the Maker community. Our own Digital Discovery is quite the value as …

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Introducing the Transistor Tester Adapter and Curve Tracer Instrument

- by Kaitlyn Franz - 2 Comments.

In our last WaveForms update (3.16.3) we introduced the usual plethora of new settings features and bug fixes, but we also added an entirely new instrument, the Curve Tracer Instrument. …

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What’s different between Vivado and Vitis?

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Xilinx’s Vivado Design Suite made its debut in 2012 as an integrated design environment for embedded development. More recently, the semiconductor company released its Vitis platform, which subsequently also includes …

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The Analog Discovery Pro: Why Did We Make It?

- by Kaitlyn Franz - 3 Comments.

From our first models of Analog Discovery, we’ve come a long way. The new ADP3450 builds on what earlier devices were missing, creating a unique experience for test engineers.

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Using Linux on a USB Oscilloscope

- by Kaitlyn Franz - 1 Comment

The Analog Discovery Pro introduces an entirely new way to interact with a portable device of its kind, Linux Mode.

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From the President: Enabling Digital Transformation

- by Steve Johnson - 2 Comments.

It seems as if every time we’re approaching the boundaries of technology’s influence on our culture, a new development, trend, or exciting innovation pushes those boundaries even further, launching even …

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Interested in Software-Defined Radio? We are!

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Will Wadkins, Digilent’s FPGA Product Manager, discusses how Digilent is beginning to enter the software-defined radio space with the introduction of the USRP B205mini-i.

NES Controller Using a Digital Discovery to work through a dev board

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Reverse Engineering an NES Controller Using the Digital Discovery and WaveForms

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Some time ago, we had an old NES controller floating around the office. It wasn’t your run-of-the-mill NES controller, though – it had been “tampered” with. Instead of the normal …

FPGA Boards / Projects

The Genesys ZU Taken On a Road Test

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One lucky user was tasked to see what the Genesys ZU was capable of.

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Custom AXI for IP Acceleration using Petalinux

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Pablo at ControlPaths.com has written a guide for creating a custom AXI IP using the Genesys ZU, but any Zynq MPSoC will do. We’re partial to the Genesys ZU though. …

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Five Projects for Your Arty S7

- by David Horn - 1 Comment

The Arty S7, our FPGA development board using the cost efficient Xilinx Spartan 7, gives users plenty of I/O and expansion options to work with. Since its inception in 2018, …

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Using the xFFT IP to Implement an FFT on the Eclypse Z7

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Pablo from controlpaths.com lent his expertise in Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and applied it to our Eclypse Z7 board (using the SYZYGY Zmod ADC and DAC, and Xilinx’s xFFT IP). …

Teaching Remotely (because that’s just the way it is)

- by David Horn - 3 Comments.

If you’re stuck in the unfamiliar situation of attempting to complete the rest of this semester’s EE courses online (rather than in your lab), read on. We want to make …

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Analog Discovery 2 Used in Stanford University Medical Research

- by David Horn - 1 Comment

In December of last year, Stanford’s Neerav Dixit, John Pauly, and Grieg Scott published a paper on thermo-acoustic ultrasound (TAUS) for noninvasive temperature monitoring. So why are we excited about …

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Handwritten Digit Recognition Using Artificial Intelligence on a Low-Cost FPGA Board

- by David Horn - 2 Comments.

In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), the recognition of handwritten digits proves that you got your neurons right and in working condition. This application of AI is already quite …

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An Examination of Oscilloscope Noise Due to Ground Issues

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A discussion of how ground potential differences can (and will) effect oscilloscope measurements.

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Embracing a New Standard

- by Steve Johnson - 32 Comments.

“A promising new FPGA connectivity solution is here.” Steve Johnson, President, Digilent, Inc. For engineers working with FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) for high-speed control, signal processing, or test and measurement applications, a …

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Build a Cheap, Quick (and Powerful!) Video Streaming System

- by David Horn - 2 Comments.

Picture this scenario: you need to develop an embedded vision application – something like an object detection system or real time digital video processing – but you don’t have the …