Digilent, Inc., an NI company and industry leader in FPGA-based engineering solutions, released the Analog Discovery Pro ADP3450, the first offering in the Analog Discovery Pro product line. The ADP3450 is a 4-channel high resolution, mixed signal oscilloscope that provides the utility of multiple professional benchtop devices combined with the flexibility of a USB instrument in a single compact system.
The Analog Discovery Pro ADP3450 offers the same 12-in-1 measurement experience and support for Digilent’s free software WaveForms that became popular with the Analog Discovery 2, but it also boasts a larger buffer size, more robust specs, network connectivity, and a powerful SDK allowing advanced control and triggering when used as an instrument or in a stand-alone embedded mode.
For analog instruments, the ADP3450 features four 14-bit analog inputs, two 14-bit analog outputs, and two triggers on industry standard BNC connectors, so engineers can take advantage of the flexibility of a USB device while ensuring the best signal integrity for their high-resolution measurements. With the addition of oversampling to the oscilloscope instrument in WaveForms, the analog inputs can acquire at 0.5 GS/s sampling rate with over 55 MHz bandwidth.
For the logic analyzer and digital instruments, 16 digital inputs and outputs are available via MTE cables, offering configurable digital settings including a flexible voltage threshold and output current drive. The ADP3450 also offers the ability to connect to a network via ethernet, allowing the user to write a test on the device and deploy or monitor it remotely with increased streaming speeds.
Additionally, Linux Mode gives the flexibility to create a unique stand-alone test system and enables the USB host ports, providing access to a variety of USB connected peripherals, such as a WiFi dongle or mass storage device. The ADP3450 will be followed by the addition of the ADP3250, a lower cost version with all the features of the ADP3450 but with two oscilloscope channels, instead of four.