{"id":28183,"date":"2021-04-13T17:09:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=28183"},"modified":"2021-04-13T17:18:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T00:18:37","slug":"introducing-the-transistor-tester-adapter-and-curve-tracer-instrument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/introducing-the-transistor-tester-adapter-and-curve-tracer-instrument\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing the Transistor Tester Adapter and Curve Tracer Instrument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our last <a href=\"https:\/\/reference.digilentinc.com\/reference\/software\/waveforms\/waveforms-3\/start\">WaveForms update (3.16.3)<\/a> we introduced the usual plethora of new settings features and bug fixes, but we also added an entirely new instrument, the Curve Tracer Instrument.<\/p>\n<p>The Curve Tracer Instrument allows you to easily trace and measure the characteristic curves of common discrete components including transistors, diodes using WaveForms compatible devices with two differential or four single ended analog inputs and two analog outputs, by setting up a reference circuit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/addtimedomain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28186\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/addtimedomain-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" data-wp-pid=\"28186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/addtimedomain-600x375.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/addtimedomain-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/addtimedomain-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/addtimedomain.jpg 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gone are the days of waiting for the old Tek 575 curve tracers to warm up and attempting to take a photo lining up the curve with the grid on the screen.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28187\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28187\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2185013849_985a270cfe_c.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-28187\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2185013849_985a270cfe_c-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" data-wp-pid=\"28187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2185013849_985a270cfe_c-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2185013849_985a270cfe_c.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fact that I remember what this thing is called 8 years later says a lot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you have an <a href=\"https:\/\/store.digilentinc.com\/analog-discovery-2-100msps-usb-oscilloscope-logic-analyzer-and-variable-power-supply\/\">Analog Discovery 2<\/a> and want an even easier experience, the brand new <a href=\"https:\/\/store.digilentinc.com\/transistor-tester-for-analog-discovery-enables-characteristic-curve-tracing-for-diodes-and-transistors\/\">Transistor Tester Adapter<\/a> has built in relays, so you simply need to plug the device into the terminal block on the adapter and trace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tracerwithbreadboard_2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-28185\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tracerwithbreadboard_2-600x450.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" data-wp-pid=\"28185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tracerwithbreadboard_2-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tracerwithbreadboard_2.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the plotted cursors and reference channels can be used to take measurements and the images and data can be exported for sharing or incorporation into lab reports. To learn more about the Curve Tracer instrument or Transistor Tester Adapter, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/reference.digilentinc.com\/reference\/instrumentation\/transistor-tester-adapter\/start\">resource center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-28183 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='28183' data-nonce='f1d1edd875' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-28183 lc'>+8<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-28183 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='28183' data-nonce='f1d1edd875' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-28183 unlc'>-2<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-28183 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our last WaveForms update (3.16.3) we introduced the usual plethora of new settings features and bug fixes, but we also added an entirely new instrument, the Curve Tracer Instrument. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":28185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4325,4323,4267],"tags":[111,452],"ppma_author":[4466],"class_list":["post-28183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-debug-validation-test","category-software","category-featured","tag-analog-discovery","tag-waveforms"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/tracerwithbreadboard_2.png","authors":[{"term_id":4466,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kaitlyn","display_name":"Kaitlyn Franz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3f16f6159d3666c6fd05a4b73a18c286?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Franz","last_name_2":"","first_name":"Kaitlyn","first_name_2":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183","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=28183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28183"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=28183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}