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• FTDI chips Port B is in OPTO isolated mode
• the FPGA Intel MAX 10 is programmed with the demo specific firmware

If the module is in initial delivery condition boot requirements are not meet, so
all steps need to be taken.

Download

Compressed folder, containing all necessary files for the demo - Download-Link

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• FT_Prog (Version 3.3.88.402) - Download-Link
  
  

For programming the FPGA Intel MAX 10: 

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Quartus prime and Arrow-USB-Blaster need to be installed prior to updating the firmware.
In addition, the compressed folder needs to be extracted.

This demo although requires the installation of Visual Analog (Version 1.9.48.1) - Download Link

FTDI Port B OPTO isolated mode

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FPGA demo specific firmware

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Integration with Visual Analog

1. Figure out the correct modules COM port number for the AnalogMAX DAQ1 board
   1. Open the device manager., right click onto windows start menu symbol and select device manager

   2. Open ports and identify the port used by the AnalogMAX DAQ1 as visible in Figure 10.
      

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      Figure 10: Device Manager for COM port identification

      module, the number is here marked with an X

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2. Setup Visual AnalogSetup Visual Analog "External Tools..." custom menu item to launch adcapture.exe with commandline parameters
3. Download "Visual Analog" from here.
Install "Visual Analog"


1. Start "Visual Analog" and open a "Blank canvas". After that, the window should look like Figure 11.
   

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   Figure 11: VisualAnalog started

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2. Open the file "AnalogMAX_DAQ1_Capture.vac" from the downloaded zip-file via "File → Open...". The window should look like Figure 12

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   Figure 12: VisualAnalog AnalogMAX_DAQ1_Capture.vac loaded

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3. Press "Tools → External Tools..." to prepare the usage of the adcapture.exe.
4. Click "Add" in the opened window and insert the name "adcapture" in the "Display Text". Select the file "adcapture.exe" from the downloaded zip-file after using the button "Browse..." for the "File Name" and insert "COM14,115200 1024 c:\temp\capture.txt 7" for the "Arguments". The parameters are the COM port (COM port 14 in our case), the baud rate, the number of samples, the location to store the data and a value to adjust the system. Then, click on "Ok".
   
   
4. Launch adcapture.exe and after completion click run to update the screen
   1. Select the above inserted tool by selecting "Tools → adcapture".

   2. A window shows the activity of the tool "adcapture", similar to Figure 13.
      
      

      
      
      Figure 13: Adcapture.exe output
      

   3. Then, using "F5" or "Canvas → Run" uses the information to create the graph in the previous window, as visible in Figure 14.
      
      

      Figure 14: VisualAnalog data interpretation

VisualAnalog parameter description (COM14,115200 1024 c:\temp\capture.txt 7)

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