{"id":21891,"date":"2017-08-29T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=21891"},"modified":"2023-01-09T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T17:18:52","slug":"waveforms-vs-labforms-part-1-waveform-generator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/waveforms-vs-labforms-part-1-waveform-generator\/","title":{"rendered":"WaveForms vs LabForms Part 1: Waveform Generator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I decided to write a series of blog posts comparing WaveForms<\/a> to its LabVIEW<\/a> counterpart “LabForms”. So today we will have our first installment of that series!<\/p>\n

To start, Labforms allows you to\u00a0connect an\u00a0Analog Discovery 2\u00a0<\/a>USB Oscilloscope to LabVIEW. The LabVIEW code uses the\u00a0LabVIEW driver for the Analog Discovery 2<\/a>,\u00a0which lets you access the analog scope and Waveform Generator\u00a0(WaveGen)\u00a0functionalities of the Analog Discovery with LabVIEW.<\/p>\n

The Arbitrary Waveform Generator (or Wavegen)\u00a0generates electronic waveforms.\u00a0The resulting waveforms can be input into a device being tested and analyzed with the Oscilloscope as they progress through the device. This is useful for confirming the proper operation of the device or pinpointing a fault in the device. Accessing the Wavegen is easy in both WaveForms<\/a> and LabForms, in both versions simply navigate to the “Wavegen” tab from the home screen, shown below.<\/p>\n

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The user interfaces are quite similar, this can be seen from the picture below. LabForms contains many of the same major functions but doesn’t have all of the options as WaveForms<\/a>. For example, Waveforms (shown in the top graph in the picture below) allows you to set your signal type to\u00a0DC, Sine, Square, Triangle, Ramp-Up, Ramp-Down, Noise, Trapezium, and Sine-Power. Only the first 4 signals are included in the LabForms version. \"\"There are also several\u00a0other differences between the two versions. WaveForms’<\/a> includes a large assortment of built in features including a signal shape editor, a data file importer, a modulation configuration mode and many others. LabForms has only the basic features built in, but because it is built in LabVIEW<\/a> users have access to a huge amount of tools to help create a customized waveforms. Below you can see the basic LabVIEW VI’s for outputting signals from the arbitrary waveform generator.<\/p>\n

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Thank you for reading my blog post; if you want to learn more, please check out my Instructable “Analog Discovery 2 USB Oscilloscope + LabVIEW(2016 update)<\/a>“. \u00a0If you are interested in making this project yourself but don’t have the right supplies, you can purchase\u00a0LabVIEW 2014 home bundle\u00a0here<\/a>, and if you are a student the\u00a0Analog Discovery 2<\/a>\u00a0has an academic discount available. Please comment below with any questions or comments you may have.<\/p>\n

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Austin addresses the differences and similarities between the two tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":21955,"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":[4323,1563],"tags":[111,452],"ppma_author":[4493],"class_list":["post-21891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","category-guide","tag-analog-discovery","tag-waveforms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Capture13.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4493,"user_id":42,"is_guest":0,"slug":"astanton","display_name":"Austin Stanton","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0cc9db2caf6344c8f78ea46c21570f33a954c45596addf479125043e52431de0?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\/21891","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29459,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21891\/revisions\/29459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21891"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=21891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}