{"id":17726,"date":"2016-11-18T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T18:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=17726"},"modified":"2021-06-11T11:03:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T18:03:30","slug":"waveforms-tools-with-the-ad2-and-eeboard-static-io","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/waveforms-tools-with-the-ad2-and-eeboard-static-io\/","title":{"rendered":"WaveForms Tools with the AD2 and EEBoard: Static I\/O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Static Input\/Output ports are one of those things that you don&#8217;t realize how handy they are until you don&#8217;t have them. With the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-and-variable-power-supply\/\">Analog Discovery 2<\/a>\u00a0you can utilize up to 16 I\/O pins, and with the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/electronics-explorer-all-in-one-usb-oscilloscope-multimeter-workstation\/\">Electronics Explorer Board<\/a> you get a whopping 32.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17734\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17734\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17734\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/32-IO-600x497.png\" alt=\"The Electronics Explorer Board has 32 Static I\/O pins.\" width=\"600\" height=\"497\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Electronics Explorer Board has 32 Static I\/O pins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the big deal? Static I\/O can be used as indicators, triggers, switches&#8230; the list goes on. Connect the pin anywhere in your circuit to add or sense a signal at that exact point in real time. Control motors and lights or see if a MOSFET has been triggered correctly. The <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/waveforms-2015-download-only\/\">Waveforms 2015<\/a>\u00a0Static I\/O tool is simple and easy to use and dead useful.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17741\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F5FZ8A6IRXT95OT-600x337.png\" alt=\"f5fz8a6irxt95ot\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" data-wp-pid=\"17741\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F5FZ8A6IRXT95OT-600x337.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F5FZ8A6IRXT95OT-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F5FZ8A6IRXT95OT-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F5FZ8A6IRXT95OT-800x450.png 800w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F5FZ8A6IRXT95OT-1200x675-cropped.png 1200w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/F5FZ8A6IRXT95OT.png 1366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a more in depth look at the Static I\/O tool, check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Using-the-Static-IO-With-the-Analog-Discovery-2\/\">Instructable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All you need is to get started is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-and-variable-power-supply\/\">Analog Discovery 2<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p>-A computer with USB port to run the software<\/p>\n<p>*You may also use the original <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/analog-discovery-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-limited-time\/\">Analog Discovery<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/electronics-explorer-all-in-one-usb-oscilloscope-multimeter-workstation\/\">Electronics Explorer Board<\/a> with Waveforms 2015. There are some slight differences in functionality between the AD1, AD2, and EEBoard, but nothing that will prevent you from following along if you have one of the other tools.<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-17726 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='17726' data-nonce='ee750c7abc' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-17726 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-17726 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='17726' data-nonce='ee750c7abc' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-17726 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-17726 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon continues his Analog Discovery 2 tutorial series!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":17739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4323,4312,1563],"tags":[111],"ppma_author":[4471],"class_list":["post-17726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-usb-scopes-analyzers-generators","category-guide","tag-analog-discovery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ad.png","authors":[{"term_id":4471,"user_id":22,"is_guest":0,"slug":"brmarcum","display_name":"Brandon Marcum","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/759a6fe8a05fd65a78b981319973577c?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Marcum","last_name_2":"","first_name":"Brandon","first_name_2":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17726"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=17726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}