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Teardown of the UNRELEASED Digilent Analog Discovery Pro ADP2230 It will be released on the 29th Feb 2024 for US$695 Featuring the AvE Widlarizer! Hi-Res photos: Analog Discovery 3 Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SbNnaMM1tQ 00:00 – Mystery Mailbag – The Analog Discovery Pro ADP2230 02:24 – Turns out this won't be released for 2 months! 02:58 – Product …

This week's EYE ON NPI is ready to be tested - it's a super powerful piece of test equipment from Digilent - we are happy to feature the Digilent Analog Discovery Pro 3000 Series (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/d/digilent/analog-discovery-pro-3000-series). The Analog Discovery Pro 3000 (which we will shorten to ADP3000) is a huge upgrade from the EYE ON NPI we had last year with Digilent's Digital Discovery pod (https://blog.adafruit.com/2020/09/03/eye-on-npi-digilent-digital-discovery-eyeonnpi-digikey-digikey-digilentinc-adafruit/). That product was a small digital logic analyzer, great for doing firmware debugging with up to 32 channels of 200 MS/s data capture and lots of built-in bus decoding. To match with the Digital Discovery, Digilent also came out with the Analog Discovery 2 (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4652) with two analog input channels of 14-bit, 100MS/s, 30MHz ADC and 16-channel logic analyzer. The Analog Discovery 2 is a great student/maker/beginner mixed-signal tool, and compact enough that you can fit it into your laptop bag for analysis anywhere. But if you want something that is comparable to a 'real' scope, you'll find that you'll want something that can take real scope probes and BNC output for those high speed signal generations. That's why there's now the ADP3000 (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/d/digilent/analog-discovery-pro-3000-series) - the 3000 means its 1500x 'more extra' than the Analog Discovery 2? Which gives benchtop-ruggedness to a digital USB scope. The ADP3000 series is a 'little bit of everything': Two or four analog inputs with 100MS/s sample rate, 50 MHz bandwidth, 14-bit, +-25V input 16-channel logic analyzer and waveform pattern generator, 1.8 to 5V input, 125 MS/s sample rate Two analog waveform outputs, +-5V, 14-bit, 15MHz bandwidth Now, to be completely fair - this isn't going to replace a benchtop scope. Even my trusty old Tek TDS2014 (https://www.tek.com/oscilloscope/tds2000-digital-storage-oscilloscope), bought 15 years ago, has 1 GS/s and 100 MHz sample rate. And, personally, I still really like twiddling physical knobs when debugging a circuit. So we think that while it could be used as a benchtop toolkit, the ADP3000 isn't designed for that. Instead where we think this tool would really shine is automation or test engineering, where components or setups need to be analyzed or as part of a integration test. That's because Digilent is a wholly-owned subsidiary of National Instruments (https://www.ni.com) who make LabVIEW (https://www.ni.com/en-us/shop/labview.html) an extremely-popular lab/data capture/analysis program. So you know that there's going to be excellent integration, with the Digilent tools getting "First Class" support in LabVIEW. Having seen physicists/biologists/mech e's struggle with how to automate their experiments, this tool would work very nicely in a graduate or company lab. One feature that really stands out for the ADP3000 is that, yes, you can plug it into a computer via USB like you'd expect to capture data on a host PCB, but you can also log in directly into the scope in "Linux Mode". (https://reference.digilentinc.com/test-and-measurement/analog-discovery-pro-3x50/linux-mode) Not surprisingly, this scope runs embedded Linux, that's how it can do stuff like have USB host and Ethernet. But even with Ethernet, there's always the risk of bandwidth or dropped packets. What if you want to get some large data capture going, where you don't want to be restricted by USB? Or if you wanted to connect some additional hardware? We like that Digilent opened up this capability - most test equipment companies would not be excited to let the user log into the device itself and mess around! For scientists and automation and test engineers, this is a very promising tool - and you can pick up one from Digi-Key for immediate shipment right now! There are four 'versions' of this product (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/result?s=N4IgjCBcoLQCxVAYygMwIYBsDOBTANCAG4B2aWehA9lANogCcYADAMwDsIAuoQA4AuUECAC%2BYoA): you can get 2 or 4 analog input and with or without probes. For many uses, ADP3250 2-input version without probes will do a fine job (https://www.digikey.com/short/vmvw4mv3) but check out the other options before checking out. Order today and you can be automating your data acquisition by tomorrow. See on Digi-Key at https://www.digikey.com/short/vmvw4mv3 See Digilent's video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lMlnb6_Kdw

This week's EYE on NPI is all about discovering new things - the Digilent Digital Discovery with High-speed adapter bundle (https://www.digikey.com/en/product-highlight/d/digilent/digital-discovery-with-high-speed-adapter-bundle). The Digilent Digital Discovery™ is a combined logic analyzer and pattern generator instrument that was created to be the ultimate embedded development companion. Digital Discovery was designed to optimize channels, speed, and portability. A small form factor facilitates easy storage and provides a whole suite of advanced features to allow you to debug, visualize, and simulate digital signals for most embedded projects. Digital inputs and outputs can be connected to a circuit using simple wire probes or breadboard wires; alternatively, the Digital Discovery High Speed Adapter and impedance-matched probes can be used to connect and utilize the inputs and outputs for more advanced projects. We're big fans of the affordable and powerful Digilent Analog Discovery (https://www.adafruit.com/product/4652) so when this logic-analyzer version popped up on https://digikey.com/new we snapped it up to check out. The specifications of what you get, for the price, are pretty amazing: 32-channel digital logic analyzer (1.2…3.3V CMOS, 8 channels at 800MS/s*, 16 channels at 400MS/s*, and 32 channels at 200MS/s) Digital Bus Analyzers (SPI, I²C, UART, CAN, Parallel) 16-channel pattern generator (1.2…3.3V CMOS, 100MS/s) 16-channel virtual digital I/O including buttons, switches, and LEDs – perfect for logic training applications A programmable power supply of 1.2…3.3V/100mA. The same voltage supplies the Logic Analyzer input buffers and the Pattern Generator input/output buffers, for keeping the logic level compatibility with the circuit under test. In particular, 32 channels of 200 MS/s logic analyzer input is rare to see in a sub-$1000 logic analyzer. 8 channels of 800 MS/s is also incredible, if you need that kind of speed, it's very hard to find an affordable analyzer. The wide/fast rates means this analyzer would be great for analyzing wide 8/16/24/32 address/data busses that normally you wouldn't have enough pins for. You could also check on fast protocols that normally aren't logic-analyzer friendly like RGB matrix and parallel TFT displays. Inside is a Xilinx SPARTAN FPGA and some memory for buffering signals. Like many logic analyzers, the Digital Discovery connects over USB and uses free desktop software for communication. The software in this case is called Waveforms, and is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux including Raspberry Pi (https://store.digilentinc.com/waveforms-download-only/). The same software is used for the Analog Discovery, so if you've got one of those, it'll be familiar. The software is powerful and has a lot of options and capabilities, so we definitely recommend going through some of the tutorials available on Digilent's site, like this nice walk-through on analyzing an old-school NES controller - here's a hint, it uses a serial latch! (https://blog.digilentinc.com/nes-controller-digital-discovery-waveforms/). What I use logic analyzers for is usually decoding I2C and SPI transfers while writing drivers. So I was happy to see a range of built in analyzers such as I2C, UART, CAN, even HDMI! To test it out, I connected the analyzer up to a BNO080 sensor I'm working on. I enabled I2C datalogging on the two initial pins. You can see the data stream with decoded hex values and read/write flags on initial addresses. You can also open up the events tab to see the data as a list with timestamps. The event data (or even the raw pulses) can then be exported to a spreadsheet. There's also a powerful scripting system. You can perform analysis, read data and decode protocols. (https://blog.digilentinc.com/decoding-vga-on-the-digital-discovery/) There's also a logic waveform generator you can script as a simulator for devices. (https://reference.digilentinc.com/learn/instrumentation/tutorials/hd44780_digital_discoverystart) We're pretty confident saying that for the price, this is the fastest, most powerful, capable and customizable logic analyzer you can get. And for students, it's super affordable and easy to store. Pair this up with an Analog Discovery for a full EE lab without giving up tons of desk space. Pick up a Digital Discovery from Digi-Key today at https://www.digikey.com/short/zfhz4r . You can pick up the version with high speed probe kit, or, if you aren't planning on using over 200 MS/s, the affordable basic version is at https://www.digikey.com/short/zfh997

Jen and Alvaro summarize the annual survey results and chat about the future of the show. Congratulations to Austin from Australia for winning the Analog Discovery 2! We’ve started a Patreon! If you’d like to donate to support the show, but don’t care for Patreon, you can also use PayPal to send funds to  show@unnamedre.com. Here are some of the survey results: In your day to day life you are a: Top results: Software Engineer Hardware Engineer Security Engineer Firmware Engineer Other interesting ones: Carpenter Doctor Students/educators Most people do listen a lot. Some several per day and some multiple per week 60% Who else are you listening to: Top ones: The Amp Hour Embedded.fm Darknet Diaries HackADay Podcast SecurityNow! Macrofab Engineering Podcast This week in xxxx, cpp cast, Risky Business, On the Metal Listening while: 60% during zoning out: commute/chores 20% during desk work or exercise Listening via: Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses. Podcast apps used Apple, overcast, PocketCasts, RSS were main responses. When do you listen to new shows? ⅕ only when interested, otherwise pretty quickly listen to new show. How to find us? Social media 44 or 30% Amp hour/embedded total of 25% Suggested by web or other means  like other pods 63% In person 2 people   What have been your favorite episode types? Guest episodes 3:2 guests to just cohost Just Jen and Alvaro Conferences 1:3 confs to guests Fave episodes Jeri 26 Conferences Dmitri  2 Ghidra 18  Frequency 51% Too Infrequent 42% Just right You want more but not at the expense of content.   You like the interviews for Casual conversions with good questions to help understand new concepts and tools. After listening to an episode You learned some new stuff and  are ready to try out a new project. All around 95% of the audience fell into these categories.  Parts you like overall: Knowledgeable guests and hosts (whew…) Ok but could find more topics. Show notes and website: You use the show notes!! 80+% use them in some capacity. Hardly anyone used the website but only for show notes (31%)   Things to change We have a bimodal audience for beginner versus depth. It’s great but challenging. We can tag better to help meet your needs. Alter music gain. Giggling will probably continue. Sorry. Things to keep You like us! Yay! Topics: Soooo many topics and people. You want: stickers and tees The intro song is Happiest Robot and the outro is Digital Zen, both by TeknoAxe. We’ve been using Zencastr to record the show. Have comments or suggestions for us? Find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

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In this episode, we talked about measuring things (Well mostly digital and some analog things)! Digital Multimeter Oscilloscope Passive vs active probes Current probes Logic Analyzers Saleae Logic Mentioned on the Embedded.fm podcast Episode 2 Now with Real Time View! Analog Discovery 2 Sigrok (Supported Logic Analyzers) Bitscope BusPirate Perhaps we missed your favorite tool or you had questions and comments about our list, find us on twitter @unnamed_show,  or email us at show@unnamedre.com and tell us. Music by TeknoAxe (http://www.youtube.com/user/teknoaxe)

If you haven't done so, please take our survey!  http://survey.hamradioworkbench.com/ George is down with the Flu, so Mark “Smitty Halibut” Smith KR6ZY guest hosts this week.  We debrief on Winter Field Day and talk about the battery projects on KF7IJZ’s workbench and the antenna project on KR6ZY’s workbench.  Finally we share additional sessions from BayCon 2018.  First Pieter Noordhuis KK6VXV talks about developing software for working GOES Weather Satellites.  Finally, Tim Fairbairn AF6TF talks about Summits on the Air (SOTA). Smitty KR6ZY Twitter - https://twitter.com/smittyhalibut YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/user/SmittyHalibut New Ham Radio Workbench Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/hamradioworkbench/ Winter Field Day - https://www.winterfieldday.com/ New Digilent Analog Discovery 2 Bundle Exclusive for Ham Radio Workbench listeners!  The regular price would be $339, but Digilent is offering a discount code for $100 off!  The bundle includes: Analog Discovery 2 BNC Adapter Board 2 BNC Scope Probes Mini Grabbers Extra Set of Fly Wires Follow @HamWorkbench on Twitter or watch the new FaceBook groups for the link and code to appear sometime between February 15-16!  Full details will be shared in our next episode as well. Rumor of a new Yaesu FT-818 radio - https://fccid.io/K6603770X30 Commentary on the desired features of an FT-817 Replacement - http://www.k0nr.com/wordpress/2016/06/ft-817-upgrade/ Chinese HF QRP Radios Xeigu X5105 - https://www.mfjenterprises.com/Product.php?productid=X5105 Xeigu X1M - http://www.wouxun.us/item.php?item_id=302&category_id=65 Xeigu X108 - http://www.wouxun.us/item.php?item_id=346&category_id=65 Elite Power Solutions 40 Ah Prismatic LiFePO4 Battery - http://www.batteryspace.com/lifepo4-prismatic-battery-12-8v-40ah-512wh-10c-rate---un38-3-passed-3-2vx4-dgr.aspx KF7IJZ Battery Box Design Videos Part 1 - Philosophy - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJjl7r9DnQE&index=2&list=PLYdpm7CC0KkLlfmG2U03RZ6Zlg66jE-Y2 Part 2 - Bill of Materials - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_bZ-ZuM5Sg&index=1&t=16s&list=PLYdpm7CC0KkLlfmG2U03RZ6Zlg66jE-Y2 EEVBlog - Kirchoff’s Laws - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBfAEeEzDlg EEVBlog - Mesh and Nodal Circuit Analysis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f-2yXiYmRI Powerwerx Panel Mounts - https://powerwerx.com/panel-mounts 20m Moxon Antenna build. Moxon page: http://www.moxonantennaproject.com/ Moxon Calculator: http://w4.vp9kf.com/moxon_calculate.php “Crappie Poles” Fiberglass masts: https://www.ebay.com/itm/253027304815 “Super Antenna” 18ga wire: https://www.ebay.com/itm/332542983769 Balun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqG0IfY8z4 (this is 1 of 5 in the video series) Original this kit is based off of: http://setxac.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1-1-Hombrew-Air-Core-Balun-Goran-SM2YER.pdf BayCon 2018 Presentations - http://www.bay-net.org/articles.html  

When working with circuits diagnosis and design become nearly impossible if you can’t see what’s going on.  Digilent has created a super portable and affordable instrument that when combined with its Waveform software suite, it delivers to its users a bench worth of test and measurement instruments in a USB device slightly larger than a deck of playing cards.  George has been a huge fan of this device for a while and suggests that it’s a great option for those who need a lot of capability on a budget or those who need a lot of instruments in a portable package.  Join Kaitlyn Franz, Instrumentation Product Manager for Digilent, as she introduces us to the many functions of the Digilent Analog Discovery 2. Please take a moment and take our listener survey!  http://survey.hamradioworkbench.com/ Starting in February 2018, you will no longer get Ham Radio Workbench in the Ham Radio 360 podcast feed.  Please find us in your favorite podcast app and subscribe to Ham Radio Workbench. iTunes Google Play Music Stitcher Android Options Our RSS Feed for any other Podcast app - http://hamradioworkbench.com/rss The Workbench Podcast is now the Ham Radio Workbench Podcast! We have a new website - http://www.hamradioworkbench.com/ We have a new Twitter account - Please follow us! - https://twitter.com/hamworkbench Contact us at workbench at our new domain or by using our new contact form - http://hamradioworkbench.com/contact New Satellite - Fox-1D / OSCAR-92 - https://www.amsat.org/fox-1d-launched-designated-amsat-oscar-92/ Fox-1D / OSCAR-92 Telemetry - http://www.amsat.org/tlm/health.php?id=4&port= FoxTelem Satellite Telemetry Software - https://www.amsat.org/foxtelem-software-for-windows-mac-linux/ SatNOGS (Satellite Networked Open Ground Station) - https://satnogs.org/ Kenneth Finnegan W6KWF (@KWF) gives a talk on Amateur Radio and the Internet of Things - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt8N933BIBQ Nick Kartsioukas KN6NK (@ExplodingLemur) appears as a guest on the Embedded FM Podcast to discuss Information Security - http://embedded.fm/episodes/229 Winter Field Day 2018 - https://www.winterfieldday.com/ SharkRF OpenSPOT Server Software - https://github.com/sharkrf/srf-ip-conn-srv NW Digital Radio 6 codec board - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/985312845/6-channel-usb-ambe-transcoder-for-digital-voice-sy Convert dBm to Watts - https://www.everythingrf.com/rf-calculators/dbm-to-watts  Kaitlyn Franz, Instrumentation Product Manager for Digilent - https://blog.digilentinc.com/author/kaitlyn/ Digilent YouTube Channel for tutorials and help - https://www.youtube.com/user/DigilentInc/featured Analog Discovery 2 Product Page - https://analogdiscovery.com/ Digilent Instruments - https://store.digilentinc.com/all-products/scopes-instruments/ Digilent Forum - https://forum.digilentinc.com/

Chris and Elecia talk with each other about science fiction, advertising, ham radios, debugging tools, and programming languages. You can buy Embedded.fm t-shirts until May 18, 2017. You can always buy Elecia’s book: Making Embedded Systems. And don’t forget we have a Patreon if you’d like to support the show directly. Some science fiction we mentioned: Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, Nightfall and Last Question by Isaac Asimov, and the All This Time video from Jonathan Coulton. Digilent sent us goodies to review: one Analog Discovery 2 and two Digital Discovery units. So we did, though we didn't cover the high speed adapters and other nifty goodies. Check out Alvaro Prieto’s Troubleshooting tools HDDG talk for some additional information on the devices. For the giveaways, rules are in the show, hit the contact link to enter. Contest ends May 19th. Chris has been doing low-power ham radio contacts (WSPR) using an Ultimate 3S kit from QRP Labs. We talked about WSPR some with Ron Sparks in episode 76: Entropy Is For Wimps Make with Ada competition is back! It start May 15, 2017. We talked the 2016 competition with Fabien Chouteau in episode 158: Programming Is Too Difficult For Humans. Elecia is still fighting with Ubuntu before she can build her robot typist with her NVidia Jetson TX2 board. Philip Freidin sent in Stanford CS department’s reply to the lightning round question of “what language should you learn in the first college course?” Even better, he sent a link to a google spreadsheet showing how many schools answer the question. Elecia was on the Jennylyn Show. (I’ll update with a link to the specific episode on YouTube when it is available.) March Madness ended with PyBoard as the champion, more info on getting your winner’s hat soon.