{"id":14812,"date":"2016-07-18T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=14812"},"modified":"2021-06-16T14:02:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:02:29","slug":"if-theres-something-strange-in-your-project-and-if-its-something-weird-and-it-doesnt-look-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/if-theres-something-strange-in-your-project-and-if-its-something-weird-and-it-doesnt-look-good\/","title":{"rendered":"If There’s Something Strange in Your Project, and if it’s Something Weird and it Doesn’t Look Good…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…Who are you going to call?<\/p>\n

For a lot of people, Ghostbusters may seem like the only option they have available to them. In fact, that is very much the way that I felt when I was working a new Pmod library and things just didn’t seem to be working out the way I expected them to. But then, I glanced to my left and saw…<\/p>\n

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A shining diamond in the rough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Analog Discovery 2<\/a>! But alas, what can it do to help me solve my problem? Especially when I’m not even sure what my problem is to begin with.<\/p>\n

The biggest thing is that the Analog Discovery 2<\/a> (or AD2 for short) is an oscilloscope\u00a0\u2014 a device that can measure and display the electrical behavior of a device. This means that with the appropriate knowledge of what sort of places we need to probe on the device, we can get a good picture of how it is operating electrically; this is something we can’t normally do by looking at it with the naked eye.<\/p>\n

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Was anyone able to #guessthecircuit<\/a> yesterday? How many of the four did you guess correctly? #AnalogDiscovery2<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/i7RxpqwsJK<\/a><\/p>\n

— Digilent Inc. (@DigilentInc) June 10, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n