[chbot] DigitalDiscovery

[Mark Atherton]

Charles,

does this unit do synchronous capture and generation ?

-M

On 18/01/2018 5:50 PM, Charles Manning wrote:
> Even if it works under Wine, it will likely have issues due to not 
> being able to transfer at full USB speeds.
>
> The Saleae kit is good. Anyone who rips them off is scummy IMHO.
>
> I have an old Salaea (8 chan/24Msps) and have recently bought a 
> DigitalDiscovery from Digilent because I needed some more channels and 
> more speed (I needed up to 100MHz, but this goes up to 800MHz).
> It can also generate waveforms.
>
> https://store.digilentinc.com/digital-discovery-portable-logic-analyzer-and-digital-pattern-generator/
>
> It also works under Linux. Not nearly as pretty as Saleae, but did the 
> job.
>
> It stores samples in the onboard 2Gbit DDR which limits the sample 
> depth to a 64Msamples or so.
>
> What is really neat about the DigitalDiscovery is that it comes with a 
> C/C++ + Python API that allows you to program up "test scripts" etc.
>
> For example, I needed to capture data into files then run some FFTs 
> etc. All very easy, scripted and allowed me to re-run tests etc 
> without messing about clicking the UI hundreds of times.