For those of you familiar withWaveForms 2015, you know that you can install it on either yourMac,Linux, andWindowsmachines. You probably also know that it provides the user interface for theAnalog Discovery 2,Analog Discovery, andElectronics Explorer Board.
When you first openWaveForms 2015, the first window you will see is the Device Manager. In the Device Manager, you can pick the way you want to run WaveForms 2015, whether that is with one of the above mentioned boards or in Demo Mode.
If you are connected to a device, not only can you use all of the tools included inWaveForms 2015, but you can take advantage of two of the often-overlooked tools within the Device Manager. These are the Rename tool and the Calibration tool.
重命名工具允许你给你的设备nique name. This way, if you are collaborating in a large group with say, multipleAnalog Discovery 2‘s, they won’t all show up with the same default name (Discovery2). You can name it a combination of upper or lower case letters, and numbers.
That’s pretty neat, but in my opinion the most powerful tool in the Device Manager ofWaveForms 2015is the Calibration tool.
To open the Calibration Window, in the top left of the Device Manager, click Calibrate.
In the Calibration window you’ll see the Calibrate tab, with all of the tools you can calibrate, the Parameters tab, and the References tabs. The Parameters and References tabs contain values used to define the calibration of the device. I highly recommend that you don’t change these manually if you can avoid it.
Using a reliableDMM, a breadboard, and some pin headers, you can use the Calibration Wizard to do an automatic calibration. To launch the Calibration Wizard, click on the Wizard button at the top of the Device Calibration Window.
The Calibration Wizard will take you through a series of measurements and automatic calibrations. To view the full instructions for getting an accurate calibration, check out thisDevice Calibration tutorial.
At the end you can see that after calibration myAnalog Discovery 2was much more accurate than before:
For more information about getting started with yourAnalog Discovery 2, make sure to check out theAD2 quick start video series.
