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- | ======Using the Data Logger (Under Construction)====== | + | ======Using the Data Logger (Page has Moved) ====== |
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- | This guide walks through the process of setting up WaveForms' | + | |
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- | ====1. Opening the Logger==== | + | |
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- | == 1.1 == | + | |
- | Plug in your Test & Measurement Device, then start WaveForms | + | |
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- | **Note:** //The Device Manager can be opened by clicking on the " | + | |
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- | == 1.2 == | ||
- | Once the Welcome page loads, in the instrument panel at the left side of the window, click on the **Logger** button to open the //Data Logger// instrument. | ||
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- | ==1.3== | ||
- | Once the Logger instrument opens, the window contains the data plot on the right side and the default data measurements listed on the left side. | ||
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- | ====2. Using the Logger==== | ||
- | //This section walks through setting up the Logger to capture data from the Scope channels.// | ||
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- | ==2.1 Hardware Setup== | ||
- | Connect the Test & Measurement Device' | ||
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- | ==2.2 Software Setup== | ||
- | In WaveForms' | ||
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- | For more detail on how to use the //Wavegen// instrument, please see the [[learn: | ||
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- | Return to the Logger instrument by clicking on its tab in the bar at the top of the screen. | ||
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- | ==2.3 Run the Logger== | ||
- | Click the Run button ({{: | ||
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- | ==2.4 Plot Plane Axes== | ||
- | By default, measurement 1 (named C1 DC) is selected and therefore the vertical axis will automatically display an appropriate range for viewing that particular logged signal data in the same color associated with that data (yellow for C1 DC). | ||
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- | Selecting a different measurement in the list to the left of the plot plane (for example, measurement 2) will adjust the vertical axis such that the selected measurement will be displayed along with all the other desired measurements with an appropriate range for viewing the logged signal data magnitude and change its color to reflect the currently selected data (light blue for measurement 2). | ||
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- | To manually set your own range for a measurement: | ||
- | - Click the Utilities icon to the right of the measurement color display box | ||
- | - Uncheck the Auto box | ||
- | - Enter your desired Top and Bottom values | ||
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- | The bottom axis default is time in seconds with a minute long window where zero seconds is on the right side of the bottom axis and sixty seconds is on the left. The default sampling frequency is one second, which means that the displayed data will update once every second. Using the History drop down tab located at the top of the data plot, you can select to increase or decrease this displayed time window. | ||
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- | Using the Update drop down tab, you can select to increase or decrease your sampling frequency. | ||
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- | ====3. Logger User Interface Overview==== | ||
- | //This section walks through the wide variety of controls and features present in the //Logger// instrument.// | ||
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- | ==3.1 Control Buttons== | ||
- | As seen in Section 2, the “control bar” near the top of the window can be used to stop and start the capturing of data from the analog input pins. In addition to the Run/Stop button, the Single button can be used to start data acquisition. In the Logger window, these buttons both start the data acquisition but a second click on the Single button will simply restart the acquisition whereas the Run button will now display Stop and a second click will stop the data acquisition. These options can also be accessed in the Control drop-down menu located above the control bar. | ||
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- | ==3.2 Data Export== | ||
- | To export data from the Logger tool, click the Export icon located to the right of the History drop-down menu located on the control bar. This will open a new window with two tabs titled " | ||
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- | The Data tab allows you to export a .csv file containing all of the current data points in the plot plane with comments, headers, and labels as default or an image of the current plot plane. You can remove comments, headers, and/or labels by unchecking the corresponding box located in the upper left section of this window. | ||
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- | Clicking the Image tab will allow you to save an image of the Logger tool interface including the plot plane, measurements list, and the control bar with the option of displaying the device, serial number, and time that the image was taken. To change the background color of the plot for printing, see Plot Utilities in section 3.*. To remove the device, serial number, and/or time associated with the image, uncheck the corresponding box located in the top left region of the window. Alternately, | ||
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- | ==3.3 Measurement Maximum/ | ||
- | To the left of the Single acquisition button described in section 3.1 is a drop down menu that says " | ||
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- | ==3.4 Edit Measurement== | ||
- | To edit a current measurement, | ||
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- | ==3.5 Remove Measurements== | ||
- | The far left side of the control bar has a green " | ||
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- | ==3.6 Add Measurements (Basic)== | ||
- | From the control bar, click the green " | ||
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- | The Function tab by default displays the script editor window where you can manually type a mathematical function or click on desired functions displayed below the Insert window to insert them into your measurement function (all trigonometric functions operate on radian values, not degrees). To hide the built in functions, uncheck the Insert box. Click the " | ||
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- | ==3.7 Add Measurements (Advanced)== | ||
- | Within the Function tab of Add measurements, | ||
- | in the script editor window. Debug gives you an environment to step through complex scripts to ensure proper functionality, | ||
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- | ==3.8 Sampling Utilities== | ||
- | On the control bar, to the right of the Update drop-down menu is a Utilities icon. Click on this to show options for how each channel is sampled and displays values in the plot plane. The Samples drop down menu value is the number of samples per measurement to be displayed in the plot plane from 10 to 86400 samples. Changing this value will also update the time axis since the number of displayed samples is linked to the sampling rate of the Logger. Below the Samples drop down menu are drop-down menus for each channel to provide a DC offset of up to +/-25V; adjust the range display for each channel to either 5V, 25V or the maximum value; and/or attenuate the measurement by factors of 10. | ||
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- | ==3.9 Plot Plane Cursors== | ||
- | To add a vertical bar cursor to the plot plane, click the Add Cursor icon in the lower left corner of the plot plane. This will add a cursor on the far right of the plot plane. To move the cursor, click and hold the cursor and drag horizontally to the time position desired. Adding additional cursors will default to a differential measurement between the first cursor position values and the newly added cursor position values. These differential cursors can be moved by clicking once on the cursor and moving to the desired position. This movement is independent of the reference cursor. If a cursor has a differential cursor referenced to it, moving the reference cursor will also move the differential cursor proportionally. Right click the cursor to display the cursor options menu. Here, you can precisely change the time position of the cursor in the position field, deallocate a differential cursor to an independent cursor or choose a reference cursor for a given cursor in the reference field, change the differential time from a reference cursor (differential cursors only), or change the color of the cursor by clicking on the color icon to produce a color spectrum to choose a color from. To remove a cursor click the Remove button at the bottom of the cursor options menu. | ||
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- | Additional cursor types are available by clicking either the Free or Vertical icons located in the top right corner of the plot plane. Click the Free icon once and your mouse will display the time and magnitude values of the selected measurement as you hover over the plot plane. Click on the plot plane to then place a cursor point at that position then drag your mouse horizontally and/or vertically to place a differential cursor point. Click again to replace the original cursor point and so on. Click the Free icon again to exit this cursor mode. Click the Vertical icon once and your mouse will display a vertical cursor on the plot plane at your mouse' | ||
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- | ==3.10 Plot Utilities== | ||
- | The Utilities Icon in the top right corner of the plot plane allows you to place text labels on your plot plane, clear those labels, change the background from dark to light (ideal for printing), and change the thickness of the plot lines. These options can alternately be accessed by right-clicking on the plot plane. | ||
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- | ==3.11 Other Plot Plane Options== | ||
- | To clear the plot plane of all data without removing measurements, | ||
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- | ==== Next Steps ==== | ||
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- | For technical support, please visit the **Scopes and Instruments** section of the Digilent Forums. FIXME link | ||
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- | More guides to using the wide variety of features included in WaveForms can be found through the FIXME resource center. | ||
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