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News Release from: Saelig Company | Subject: Wave Generator Xpress
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 May 2008
Waveform generator provides stimuli
options
Wave Generator Xpress is controlled by GUI- based 8PI Control Panel Software in its Arbitrary Digital Waveform Generator mode, compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
Wave Generator Xpress is a USB2.0-connected, high-speed arbitrary digital waveform generator housed in a 55 x 80 x 16mm anodised aluminium case Wave Generator Xpress generates arbitrary digital signals of up to 16 bits and 100Mbyte depth per run, at up to 50Msample/s (11 Mbyte/s sustained)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Wave Generator Xpress is controlled by GUI- based 8PI Control Panel Software in its Arbitrary Digital Waveform Generator mode, compatible with Windows 2000, XP and Vista.
With its multiple graphical and programming (TCL/tk and C/C++) interfaces, there are many options for generating stimuli, from binary or text file to whole algorithms programmed in TCl/tk, C/C++, Visual Basic and others.
Three user options are offered: GUI, TCL and C/C++ API.
C/C++ function calls can be used to control Wave Generator Xpress from Visual Basic, Python or LabView.
Wave Generator Xpress is a convenient and robust personal pattern generator suited to a wide variety of electronic system test and debug tasks, such as ASIC, FPGA, DAC or digital board verification and characterisation, automated stimulus generation, data source emulation, custom serial and parallel protocol exercising.
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