{"id":19516,"date":"2017-03-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=19516"},"modified":"2021-06-11T10:40:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:40:22","slug":"waveforms-tools-with-the-ad2-and-eeboard-the-voltmeter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/waveforms-tools-with-the-ad2-and-eeboard-the-voltmeter\/","title":{"rendered":"Waveforms Tools with the AD2 and EEBoard: The Voltmeter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you have been with us for a while, and may recall that the original <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/analog-discovery-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-limited-time\/\">Analog Discovery<\/a> had a Voltmeter tool available.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19523\" style=\"width: 538px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"The \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19523\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voltmeter-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"488\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Voltmeter in WaveForms Legacy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">With the development of the <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-and-variable-power-supply\/\">Analog Discovery 2<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"> and <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 14px;\" href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/waveforms-2015-download-only\/\">WaveForms 2015<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\">, that tool was dropped in favor of other capabilities. But worry no more! The newest version of WaveForms includes that capability once again!<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19519\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19519\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19519 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2015-voltmeter-600x476.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"476\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the button to open the tool.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Voltmeter tool is the simplest to use in the WaveForms 2015 suite. No frills, no settings, just simply attach the channels shared with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Using-the-Oscilloscope-With-the-Analog-Discovery-2\/\">Oscilloscope<\/a> tool and you&#8217;re done.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19520\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19520 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voltmeter-600x476.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voltmeter-600x476.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voltmeter.png 748w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connect channel 1 or 2 (shared with the Oscilloscope) and click &#8220;Run.&#8221; That&#8217;s it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For more information about the voltmeter or any other WaveForms 2015 tools check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/reference\/instrumentation\/analog-discovery-2\/start\">tutorials section on the resource center.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-19516 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='19516' data-nonce='822831b204' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-19516 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-19516 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='19516' data-nonce='822831b204' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-19516 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-19516 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you lamenting the loss of the Voltmeter tool,  despair no more! It&#8217;s back in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":19520,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4323,4312],"tags":[111,1736],"ppma_author":[4471],"class_list":["post-19516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-usb-scopes-analyzers-generators","tag-analog-discovery","tag-analog-discovery-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/voltmeter.png","authors":[{"term_id":4471,"user_id":22,"is_guest":0,"slug":"brmarcum","display_name":"Brandon Marcum","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3f3481ac36f3c92f08a1a8266d60111ca31c5031c4428d551991aa080d9d529b?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\/19516","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=19516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19516"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=19516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}