Sorry, the specs say 500uV/Div and 200uV/Div for the AD2 and AD3 vertical min. sensitivities. Maybe you meant something else.
Yes, their product support is superb.
Who are Digilent and where are they from?
Who are Digilent and where are they from?
Who are Digilent and where are they from?An US-based company, recently bought by National Instruments, which develop hardware and software with a bias towards educational market.
They have a lot of development boards for FPGAs and such.
In any case, their most well-known (and valued) product is the Analog Discovery, in their third iteration now, which is basically a powerful FPGA with ADCs and DACs interfacing with an excellent (and free) piece of software called Waveforms. You can download it from their page and test it with your PC soundcard. It was designed to interface with breadboards via DuPont crimp connectors, but they have quite a few breakout boards, the most relevant being the BNC-connectors for the oscilloscope and AWG, the add-on for the impedance analyzer, and the audio analyzer board.
If you are interested, check their website and Analog Discovery page/documentation, it's good.
Who are Digilent and where are they from?An US-based company, recently bought by National Instruments, which develop hardware and software with a bias towards educational market.
They have a lot of development boards for FPGAs and such.
In any case, their most well-known (and valued) product is the Analog Discovery, in their third iteration now, which is basically a powerful FPGA with ADCs and DACs interfacing with an excellent (and free) piece of software called Waveforms. You can download it from their page and test it with your PC soundcard. It was designed to interface with breadboards via DuPont crimp connectors, but they have quite a few breakout boards, the most relevant being the BNC-connectors for the oscilloscope and AWG, the add-on for the impedance analyzer, and the audio analyzer board.
If you are interested, check their website and Analog Discovery page/documentation, it's good.
and more recently bought by emerson. i think emerson bought NI and everything they had? i might be wrong on that!
Who are Digilent and where are they from?
You scolded another user in another thread about this yesterday, but really: Have you tried Google?
yes I did. I googled, I checked for a wiki article and didn't find anything. I went to their "About Us" page and it didn't tell me anything. When I searched "Digilent Wiki" I got this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diligent_Corporation?useskin=vector. Then I tried searching "digilent" corporation headquarters and still couldn't find anything.
Your reply is not helpful, just like the other guy's was similarly useless.
Who are Digilent and where are they from?
You scolded another user in another thread about this yesterday, but really: Have you tried Google?
yes I did. I googled, I checked for a wiki article and didn't find anything. I went to their "About Us" page and it didn't tell me anything. When I searched "Digilent Wiki" I got this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diligent_Corporation?useskin=vector. Then I tried searching "digilent" corporation headquarters and still couldn't find anything.
Who are Digilent and where are they from?An US-based company, recently bought by National Instruments, which develop hardware and software with a bias towards educational market.
They have a lot of development boards for FPGAs and such.
In any case, their most well-known (and valued) product is the Analog Discovery, in their third iteration now, which is basically a powerful FPGA with ADCs and DACs interfacing with an excellent (and free) piece of software called Waveforms. You can download it from their page and test it with your PC soundcard. It was designed to interface with breadboards via DuPont crimp connectors, but they have quite a few breakout boards, the most relevant being the BNC-connectors for the oscilloscope and AWG, the add-on for the impedance analyzer, and the audio analyzer board.
If you are interested, check their website and Analog Discovery page/documentation, it's good.
What else do you need? Sorry, but your questions in these threads are not helpful contributions either, and are just plain lazy.
buried fucking here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Instruments?useskin=vector#2010s
Look, I'm pretty good at pissing and moaning about all sorts of things, but I really feel like I need to give credit where it's due. Every single time I ask a stupid question or make a request about their Waveforms software the response is basically "The feature you're looking for is ____, it's in the ____ menu. Here's how to use it" or "We'll try to add that", usually followed closely by an update with the exact feature I was asking about. It's just unbelievable how damn helpful they are (especially Attila).
Nobody is twisting my arm to say this, I'm getting nothing for it, but after yet another great experience I just felt the need to give them a massive thumbs up because it's so damn rare to see a company work that hard to make their tools nice to work with. Software kicks ass. Support kicks ass. Hardware has worked flawlessly and done exactly what I've needed it to do (I've been using an AD2 for a bit of a niche task for a couple years now).
/end praise
Sorry, the specs say 500uV/Div and 200uV/Div for the AD2 and AD3 vertical min. sensitivities. Maybe you meant something else.
Yes, their product support is superb.
that's all done with software zoom. it has only two real hardware ranges, 500mv/ and 5v/
yes! i don't know of any other company that is so receptive to user feedback and suggestions. i also wish they made an analog discovery with at least a 100 or 200mV/ range, but yeah, their customer support is absolutely unmatched
Maybe, in case it could help others, we should mention that these are 14-bit resolution scopes. 500mv/ for 10 divisions would imply 500x10/2^14 = 305uV steps. This is perhaps what they meant to say in their specs.
Attila from Digilent has a post on this:
https://forum.digilent.com/topic/21043-low-voltage-accuracy-for-analog-discovery-2/?do=findComment&comment=60181
yes! i don't know of any other company that is so receptive to user feedback and suggestions. i also wish they made an analog discovery with at least a 100 or 200mV/ range, but yeah, their customer support is absolutely unmatched
It's just insane how helpful they are. Less than 24 hours ago I asked about a feature, this morning there's a screenshot in the thread of the feature in action and a comment saying it'll be in the next release. And that's far from the first time I've had that experience. Blows my mind.
I think one of the models has a 200mV range (unless I read wrong)- https://digilent.com/reference/test-and-measurement/analog-discovery-pro-3x50/start
The front end limitations (not just the low range stuff but also maximum input range) has been a bit of a dampener for me as far as buying more hardware and using it as general purpose test gear (my AD2 is permanently wired up with some interfacing circuitry as a digitiser for my curve tracer so it's not an issue there), but I still haven't ruled it out completely because the software is just so damn nice to use. I've tried a couple of different digital setups over the years and always hated it compared to my analog gear, but I could absolutely see myself using Waveforms on a day to day basis. It's just a bit tricky with the signal levels/voltages I work with to make it work with the AD hardware.
It would be nice if the AD3 had USB3.
If they had put USB3 on it then they'd be forced to compete with the ThunderScope and PicoScope and it'd cost $900-2000 instead of $350.