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On 4/26/2024 at 12:23 PM, artvvb said:
Hey @SpinWizard
This is actually supported out of the box, not as a separate instrument, but as a separate device that works with most of the non-digital instruments like Scope and Wavegen as-is. It's at the bottom of the device manager list:
Thanks for the feedback!
Arthur
Thanks for that info. I did eventually find how to assign the sound card to the signal generator.
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On 4/6/2023 at 3:51 PM, artvvb said:
Hi Everyone,
The Questions:
Do you know about the Embedded Linux Mode in the ADP3450 and ADP3250? (Yes|No)
Have you used it? (Yes|No)
If YES:
Please describe the application for which you used Embedded Linux Mode.
What was your overall experience with Linux Mode? (Scale 1-5)
What would you improve?
If NO:
What is the reason for not using it? (Open Text)
Do you know about network connectivity (Ethernet) for the ADP3450 and ADP3250? (Yes|No)
Have you used it? (Yes|No)
If YES:
Please describe the application for which you used the device's Ethernet features. (Open Text)
What was your overall experience with network connectivity? (Scale 1-5)
What would you improve? (Open Text)
If NO:
What is the reason for not using it? (Open Text)
Do you know about WaveForms SDK? (Yes|No)
Have you used it? (Yes|No)
If YES:
Please describe the application for which you used WaveForms SDK. (Open Text)
What was your overall experience with WaveForms SDK? (Scale 1-5)
What would you improve? (Open Text)
If NO:
What is the reason for not using it? (Open Text)
What sampling rate and analog bandwidth do you typically need for your current and future measurements? (Open Text)
What features or improvements would you like to see in future products? (Open Text)
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- No, Don't own the higher end units.
- Yes
- No
- Yes
- No I'm actually a new user to Digilents offerings and haven't had a need yet to use an SDK.
With respect to the last two questions:
Right now I'm happy with the 2230 and its bandwidth, Sampling rates needs vary. As far as current and future needs there likely is a need in the future for more channels and even better isolated channels. Ideally more channels with out a significant loss of sampling rate. Realistically though my interests are more industrial so extremely high bandwidth / sampling rates are seldom needed. In any event more channels, including a trigger channel go a long ways.
As for features or improvements, in all honesty I'm a new owner and have not had a lot of exposure yet. However that has never stopped me from making suggestions: (realize I'm a new owner / learner)
- PC's these days almost always come with some sort of "Sound Card", I'd like to see these used via another instrument that is always available and can handle basic oscillator duty. In fact you can literally call it an Oscillator instrument though most sound cards can do better. Now I realize that we have the WaveGen Instrument but I look at this as additional capability and frankly parallel capability that does not interfere with the channel to the Analog discovery.
- A higher voltage range on a per div spec. This would make the platform even more useful.
- Add supported external DVM's instead of or in cooperation with the Analog Discovery. These days that means a USB interfaced DVM's. The idea would be zero effort implementation on the part of the user, even if that means a limited number of DVM's. You can never have too many DVM's available and sometimes you need the safety of system multi meter.
- I will likely have more to add as I learn about the hardware and software. I'm especially interested i how the logic instrument works with slow electromechanics.
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I pretty much have to agree with the first post in this thread, the need to have an account to install and keep up your installed software is Extremely anti consumer. It is unfortunate that Digilent has gone this way.
In fact I'm going to suggest going in the opposite direction and make life even easier for your users. In this regard use Home Brew for Mac Software support. For Linux setup an RPM repository for Fedora and possibly some of the lesser distros. Why? Simply because it makes keeping a computer up to date and your customers will love you for it.
I suspect that what Digilent and their marketing people, don't realize is that too much non sense drives people to other companies. This includes excessive marketing crap but also things that just get in the way like diving through hoops to update a piece of software. Keeping your software up to date on a computer should be effortless using accepted methods.
Please realize I'm a new customer of Digilents, I'd like to be a long term customer but I'm left with the impression that the ownership by National Instruments has infected the company with BS that educated engineers and technicians don't want to deal with. Effectively the markets NI and Digilent server are not the same and what is good in one domain really sucks in another.
Analog Discovery Pro (ADP3450/ADP3250) Linux Mode Survey
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1. I did eventually figure out what was going on with that part of the software.
2. Yes I understand but a higher voltage capability just makes for a more flexible unit.
3. It would be nice if the software would integrate with external DVM's. Most meters that have any communications capability support USB connections, so an easy add for most PC's. Ideally the meters would show up as an additional channel on the "Voltmeter" instrument. Voltmeters are a the most common instrument on a bench which is why the idea came to me.
At this point I'm really learning a lot about the analog discovery.