TechTip: Measuring 4-20 mA Current with MCC DAQ
The 4-20 mA current loop interface came about because of the need to transmit information over long distances. System designers found that instead of a changing a voltage signal [that …
Inside a DAQ Device: Analog-to-Digital Converter Basics
The Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) is today’s go-to device for changing an analog signal into a digital binary value. The ADC takes a snapshot in time that approximates the actual value …
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Wireless Prototyping with the Eclypse Z7 and PCB Design
In this post, the hardware design for the Eclypse Z7 to perform wireless communication is discussed. The initial considerations behind the circuit design and PCB design have discussed in this …
TechTip: Measuring Thermocouples with Raspberry Pi® and the MCC 134
Thermocouples are a popular way to measure temperature due to their low cost, ease-of-use, and wide measurement range. This article explains the difficulties in making accurate thermocouple measurements, how the …
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Can We Do Better Than Verilog and VHDL for FPGAs?
At some point during a FPGA engineers’ career, they will be faced with a difficult bug in their VHDL or Verilog code and they’ll ask themselves: “Why are we stuck …
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Why Does the Zmod Digitizer Have an On-Board Low-Jitter Clock Source?
What is jitter? Jitter is the variance in where exactly a clock falls. You might expect that a 100 MHz clock has edges that occur exactly every 10 ns. However, …
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Running Your Oscilloscope in Linux Mode
Imagine you have just a few measurements left before you can hand over your latest project to your sales team so that they can present it to potential customers. But …
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Getting Started with the Latest Digilent Toolbox Add-on for MATLAB
So what is it? The Digilent Test & Measurement Toolbox allows users to acquire and analyze data in MATLAB using Digilent’s test and measurment devices. Featuring analog data streaming, digital …
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Add More Power to Your System with the Newest Release of WaveForms!
WaveForms. It’s the software suite that controls all of Digilent’s Test and Measurement devices including the popular Analog Discovery 2, the Analog Discovery Pro series boards, and the Digital Discovery. …
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How Can the ADP3450 Be Used for Wireless Charging Development?
COILS COILS COILS If you’re like me, you’ll have many wireless charging coils around your lab for various standards. They likely entered your lab well-dressed; adorned in well-labelled packaging, …
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Using Vivado’s Built-in Simulator to Debug Designs
A classic interaction between a new FPGA user and an embattled older engineer (whether on our Forums or elsewhere) goes as follows: New engineer: My design doesn’t work, could you …
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Acquiring and Measuring FM Radio Frequencies From Your Desktop
Acquiring and Measuring FM Radio Frequencies From Your Desktop Overview Using Waveforms’ Oscilloscope or Spectrum Analyzer instruments to acquire the typical FM radio frequencies is just one of the capabilities …
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Build a Smart Lamp Using an Analog Discovery Pro ADP3450 – Part 4
In this last installment of our four-part blog series about creating a smart lamp, we will bring everything together. The HAL for the WaveForms SDK we developed in the Part …
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Reading Generated Data in a Real-Time Distributed System – Part 5
Using Additional Software to View Date Remotely Now that we’ve created a working distributed data collection and display system (see parts 1 through 4), let’s briefly explore other software packages available …
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Reading Generated Data in a Real-Time Distributed System – Part 4
Distributing the Applications to View the Data Remotely The goal of this article series is to demonstrate how to create a data acquisition system on one system, and view the …
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Reading Generated Data in a Real-Time Distributed System – Part 3
Creating an Application to View Data with VB.NET In Part 2, we created a working application to read telemetry from sensors connected to a USB-2408, write the telemetry or data to …
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Build a Smart Lamp Using an Analog Discovery Pro ADP3450 – Part 3
In this third issue of our four-part blog post series covering the creation of a smart LED-lamp, we are designing the Android app controlling brightness and state of the LED. …
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Reading Generated Data in a Real-Time Distributed System – Part 1
In today’s manufacturing world, companies are trying to do more with less staffing by maximizing throughput or looking for critical status of a production line without interrupting focus of production …
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Reading Generated Data in a Real-Time Distributed System – Part 2
This is second part in this series. Part 1 – Setting Up an MS Database Part 3 – Creating an Application to View Data Part 4 – Distributing Applications Part …
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Build a Smart Lamp Using an Analog Discovery Pro ADP3450 – Part 2
This is the second installment of a series of four blog posts explaining how to design a smart RGB-lamp. If you are interested, you can find Part 1 here. By …
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Intro to IEPE Accelerometer Measurement
How Do You Measure an IEPE Accelerometer? The Basics of IEPE Sensors Matching IEPE (Integrated Electronics Piezo-Electric) sensors to an instrument can be quite easy if you know a few …
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Build a Smart Lamp Using an Analog Discovery Pro ADP3450 – Part 1
This is the first part of a series of four blog posts where we will design a smart RGB-lamp which is powered by a battery and controlled through an app …
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Configuring A Two-Point Controller for Temperature
Temperature Two-Point Controller A control system manages and regulates the behavior of a device or a system. There are many types of control systems: open-loop, closed-loop, logic, two-point, linear, proportional, …
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How to Implement Predictive Maintenance Faster in Industry 4.0
Implementing Predictive Maintenance with Raspberry Pi Industry 4.0 is making its way into the world of mechanical engineering. The growing interconnectivity of machines allows, with the help of sensors, to …
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Difference Between Accuracy, Precision, Resolution, and Sensitivity
What Do Data Acquisition Specifications Actually Mean? I got my first taste of data acquisition working in a student lab at NASA Glenn Research Center. I was working on a …