{"id":19423,"date":"2018-10-08T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=19423"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T16:01:02","slug":"getting-started-with-instrumentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/getting-started-with-instrumentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Instrumentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Digilent Wiki<\/a> is the host of all demo projects, tutorials and documentation for all Digilent products. If you are looking for information on a specific product, you’ll want to visit that product’s resource center. Recently, we remodeled the resource center of the Analog Discovery 2,<\/a> and with the introduction of the Digital Discovery<\/a>, repeated some important features.<\/p>\n

Specifically, we have the Getting Started Guide and Tool Walk-arounds. Today I’ll focus a little bit on the Getting Started Guides. As an example I’ll use the Digital Discovery, although you’ll also find a Getting Started Guide for the Analog Discovery 2. The link to each getting started guide is on its respective resource center on the Digilent Wiki.<\/a><\/p>\n

On the landing page of the Getting Started Guide you’ll read a little bit about the device itself.<\/p>\n

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On the landing page you’ll get some background on the device.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then you’ll scroll down and select the operating system that you are running. WaveForms 2015, the software that runs the Digital Discovery<\/a>, Analog Discovery 2<\/a>, and Electronics Explorer Board<\/a>, are Mac, Windows and Linux compatible.<\/p>\n

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Then you’ll have to choose an operating system, Windows, Mac or Linux.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once you select your operating page, you’ll be taken to the correct Sub-Getting Started Guide. You can see all of the steps when you get to the page, and click them to expand.<\/p>\n

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All six steps. Half of them are informational.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first step is to check for prerequisites. In general, this will just be an internet connection.<\/p>\n

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First you’ll learn if there are prerequisites.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next step is to download WaveForms 2015, it’s a pretty small download so it doesn’t take too long. Make sure to pay attention to the version requirement, if there is one.<\/p>\n

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Then you’ll download the software.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next you’ll install WaveForms 2015, also super quick. It took me less than 60 seconds to download and install WaveForms 2015 on my Windows machine.<\/p>\n

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Then you’ll install it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next step is to learn a little bit about each of the tools. Which tools you have depends on which device you have plugged in.<\/p>\n

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Then you’ll learn a little bit about the tools.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last step is to take your first measurement. For the Digital Discovery, this involved outputting a counter on the pattern generator, and decoding the decimal values with the logic analyzer.<\/p>\n

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Then you’ll take your first measurement. In this case using the pattern generator as the output and decoding the input with the Logic Analyzer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To view the getting started guides, go to reference.blog.digilentinc.com<\/a>, click on instrumentation and the device you have. Then click on the getting started guide link in the tutorials section.<\/p>\n

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Take a tour through our getting started guides with the Digital Discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4312,1563],"tags":[2925],"ppma_author":[4466],"class_list":["post-19423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usb-scopes-analyzers-generators","category-guide","tag-instrumentation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/30955675812_49268ee14b_z.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4466,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kaitlyn","display_name":"Kaitlyn Franz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9276021eaa44781ce19f364cfca46ada25e1500769cf4803a095a5bae83c912a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31565,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19423\/revisions\/31565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19423"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=19423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}