Hi Robin, On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 01:09:43PM +0000, Getz, Robin wrote: > Uwe (and everyone else): > > Analog Devices is in process of launching the "ADALM1000", (M1k) a small USB > based instrument that implements a dual function generator / Measurement > channel over the next month or so. > > http://www.analog.com/en/evaluation/eval-adalm1000/eb.html > > http://wiki.analog.com/university/tools/m1k > > It is going to be released as part of ADI's education/university program, > which provides engineering students and professors with analog design kit > that will enhance engineering students' educational experience by allowing > them to experiment quickly and easily with advanced technologies and build > and test real-world, functional analog design circuits anytime and anywhere. > This "hands- on learning" design approach gives students and professors the > freedom and creativity to expand the scope of course materials and explore > real-time design scenarios right in the classroom. > > http://www.analog.com/university > > Right now, we have our own software stack, but would be interested in > understanding how to work with you and the other sigrok developers, as I > think we have mutual goals. (open source from hardware to firmware to GUI), > end users learning more things about analog.
That's great, we're always interested in supporting more hardware of course, especially so if the device is interesting and the vendor is helpful as well (which both seems to be the case here :) Adding a new device usually means writing a "driver" for libsigrok (which is a GPLv3+ licensed C library), the rest of the support is "automatically" there as for any other supported device (CLI and GUI frontends, Python/C++/Java bindings, protocol decoders, input/output formats, etc. etc.) You can have a look at the current libsigrok API docs if you're interested in the details, or at the source code of other supported devices of course. http://sigrok.org/api/ http://sigrok.org/gitweb/?p=libsigrok.git;a=tree;f=src/hardware > Although it's not described as such, the M1k is a dual channel source > measure Unit (SMU), that does have some AC capabilities, so it really doesn't > fit into the existing devices that are supported in sigrok now. Sourcing an > arbitrary voltage|current on a pin, while measuring the resulting > synchronized/actual voltage/current is sort of a weird combination of > function generator/scope on a single pin. > > We do have our own open source software, a library - libsmu, and own gui - > pixelpulse2. > > https://github.com/signalspec/pixelpulse2 > https://github.com/signalspec/libsmu > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rBX0yXIXY8 (gui in action). Looks good. The libsmu is BSD(-like) licensed which means we could potentially reuse some of that lowlevel code in sigrok if needed (might be easier to write a libsigrok driver from scratch based on the protocol info gathered from your documentation and/or code though, haven't looked at the details there yet). > As soon as a few more units get off the manufacturing line, I can send some > over to anyone interested -- Any thoughts on how to add a SMU (in a generic > sense, and the M1k specifically) to sigrok? Sounds great, I'd be happy to have a shot at writing a basic driver for the device if hardware is available (might apply to other developers as well), please contact us off-list for details. As for how to specifically implement SMU support that'll probably need some thoughts indeed. Cheers, Uwe. -- http://hermann-uwe.de | http://randomprojects.org | http://sigrok.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dive into the World of Parallel Programming. The Go Parallel Website, sponsored by Intel and developed in partnership with Slashdot Media, is your hub for all things parallel software development, from weekly thought leadership blogs to news, videos, case studies, tutorials and more. Take a look and join the conversation now. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ sigrok-devel mailing list sigrok-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sigrok-devel
