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Using Linux and Ethernet to Upload Data to ThingSpeak

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) …

Debug, Validation, and Test / Guide

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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How Do They Compare? Pitting the Analog Discovery 2 Against the New ADP3450

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The Analog Discovery 2 has been the flagship of Digilent’s Test and Measurement line, as we have worked with our global customer base to refine and develop WaveForms over the …

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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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Using Linux on a USB Oscilloscope

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

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Navigating the Difference Between Pmod, SYZYGY, and FMC

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For years, hardware engineers with interchangeable I/O needs had two strong choices – our own Pmod, which was developed as an open standard back in 2004, as well as the …

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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. …

FPGA Boards / Guide

Creating a Genesys ZU Vitis Acceleration Platform

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Vitis is Xilinx’s unified software platform, replete with open source libraries optimized for Xilinx’s own hardware platforms and pre-built applications. The Genesys ZU is our “kitchen sink” development board boasting …

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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). …

the Eclypse Z7 hooked up to an Analog Discovery 2 with Zmods

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Putting the New Eclypse Z7 to WORK

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We are really excited about some new products we released earlier this year: the Eclypse Z7, Zmod ADC 1410, and Zmod DAC 1410. Since we didn’t get a chance to …

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Six Reasons You Should Consider FPGAs Over ASICs or CPU/GPUs

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Is an FPGA the right tool for you? Dive into six ways that will help you discern if an FPGA is the way to go.

Guide / USB Scopes, Analyzers, and Generators

Using Analog Discovery Studio with MAC OS

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If you’re under the impression that our Analog Discovery products are only Windows compatible, this post is for you. The Analog Discovery 2, Digital Discovery, and Analog Discovery Studio are …

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2019 Holiday Gifting Guide

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If you’re not quite sure what to get the special engineer in your life, you’re not alone. According to CareerTrend.com, en electrical engineer must be a problem solver, analytical, detail-oriented, …

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Why You Should Avoid Choosing An Oscilloscope Based On Bandwidth Alone

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Find out what other features are important to consider when choosing an oscilloscope.

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White Paper: Creating an Image Processing System

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Our Zybo Z7 is one of the more popular FPGA Developer Boards in our arsenal, and rightfully so – it boasts a variety of peripherals surrounding the Zynq 7000 SoC …

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Getting Your Lab Up and Running with Vivado

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When your fresh-faced recruits are green and bright-eyed in the early days of the academic year, the last thing you’ll want to do is spend extensive amounts of time connecting, …

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Test and Measurement Solutions for Students in the Lab and at Home

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Innovations in flipped classrooms, online courses, and at-home labs have added the ability to serve more students without increasing the lab space, but how do you make sure students are …

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

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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 …