My ADALM2000 has appeared without warning so here is a mini review/first impressions.
My unit doesn't have a case despite the photos. The PCB is shoved into a huge piece of clear heatshrink tubing and then the label is taped to it. Looks cheap and tacky.[edit]They've had problems iwth getting the cases. If you want a case then you need to email somebody at Analog Devices. Read the Thanks letter for the email address.[/edit]
The box had the ADALM2000 itself in an antistatic bag, a micro-USB cable, a strip of extra tall 2.54mm pin headers, a sheet saying thanks for buying a ADALM2000 and a breakout cable for the pins.
It is a rev C board which is the latest according to the github repo. It came with 0.19 alpha firmware.
0.20 alpha is available.
Same upgrade instructions as the ADALM-PLUTO.
You'll need the
Scopy app to make this work. Reboot when it tells you or it doesn't connect. Scopy is a bit sparse looking compared to the Digilent WaveForms app.
I've not peeled off the label/heatshrink to confirm but the FPGA/CPU looks to be the same Xilinx Zynq Z7010 as the ADALM-PLUTO. It is running in single core mode again and you can turn on the other core if you want. AD said they had only licensed one of the cores in a
forum post for the ADALM-PLUTO but the end user can enable it. The main ADC/DAC is a
AD9963 according to Scopy.
Same as the ADALM-PLUTO, you can plug in a supported USB WiFi or Ethernet dongle and remotely connect to it over the network which is quite a nice feature.
The pinout is exactly the same as the Analog Discovery 2 so the BNC adapter should work on it.
Will have to see how much work AD put into the Scopy app and the firmware. The Analog Discovery 2 is 2x the price with a 14-bit ADC/DAC instead of 12-bit and there are far more tutorials for the Waveforms software. What you get for the price is good but the software is a bit lacking since new + alpha release. I've played about with it for an hour or so now and its okay. I've already made it crash a few times.
The ADALM2000 could do some interesting things in the future though because of the dual core Zynq Z7010. No clue if other ADALM2000 units will come with a case and what availability will be like however.