{"id":32358,"date":"2026-05-22T13:41:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/?p=32358"},"modified":"2026-05-26T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T20:43:55","slug":"ni-connect-in-ft-worth-a-round-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/ni-connect-in-ft-worth-a-round-up\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Connect in Ft. Worth: A Round Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
Howdy from Ft. Worth, Texas, where another\u00a0<\/span>NI Connect<\/a><\/span>\u00a0came to a fabulous end last week. Digilent was proud to share new tech, provide live demonstrations of our fan favorites, and generally just participate in the fanfare of the whole week’s activities.<\/div>\n
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Academic Forum<\/h1>\n
2026 marked the second year of NI Connect’s Academic Forum, where industry and academia from around the world converge into a single room on the first day of the conference. We met with attendees from Guatemala, Norway, South Korea, and more as we discussed how we can work together to further engineering education and research. One of the highlights of the show was the presentation of Arizona State University’s<\/a> Michael Goryll, who explained at length how important the\u00a0<\/span>Analog Discovery<\/a> <\/span>is in his classroom.<\/div>\n
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At ASU – home to more than 32,000 engineering students – delivering a consistent, high-quality lab experience across both in-person and fully online programs is no small feat. To meet that challenge, ASU has standardized on Digilent hardware to recreate authentic, hands-on labs anywhere students are. With tools like the Analog Discovery 3, students perform the same experiments they would in a traditional lab from their own desks without sacrificing rigor or depth. By consolidating multiple instruments into a single, portable platform, ASU has made labs more accessible, scalable, and cost-effective while maintaining the integrity of the engineering learning experience.<\/div>\n
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That flexibility shows up across disciplines. Electrical engineering students use Analog Discovery devices for everything from circuit analysis to impedance characterization, often working in parallel rather than waiting for shared equipment. In computer engineering,\u00a0<\/span>Digilent’s Basys 3 FPGA boards<\/span>\u00a0enable both in-lab and remote development workflows, while biomedical and communications students leverage NI and Digilent tools for data acquisition, signal processing, and software-defined radio. The result is a cohesive ecosystem where students can move seamlessly from foundational labs to advanced projects while gaining hands-on experience that brings theory to life, no matter where they\u2019re learning.<\/div>\n
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Hands-On Demonstrations<\/h1>\n
After the Academic Forum came to a close, NI\u00a0Connect attendees hustled over to the Experience Lounge, where NI and Digilent were able to showcase their most exciting products. Here, we showed off our academic chops while also letting the world know that Digilent’s reach extends to industry as well. We were especially excited to talk about the\u00a0<\/span>Digilent Analog Discovery Pro 2440<\/a> (link to product page),<\/span>\u00a0our newest professional grade mixed signal oscilloscope. It offers four Analog channels, 16 digital, and speeds up to 1 GS\/s (on the 2450<\/a> model) while handling 13 different test instruments through WaveForms.<\/div>\n
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Having released in March, this was the first opportunity for the public to get hands-on with the ADP2440. In this demo, the device’s Arbitrary Waveform Generator created and pushed a signal to the four channels, and calling on WaveForms’ Scope device, ran that signal through a variety of filters. All of this is hosted on a Raspberry Pi using Linux in a DIN Rail mounted solution. You can see the video of the demonstration below.<\/div>\n
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