Digilent WaveForms - Manual

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WaveForms™ SDK Reference Manual
Revised January 26, 2015
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................. 1
Overview ............................................................................................................................... 2
1 The System .................................................................................................................... 2
1.1 The API.............................................................................................................................. 4
1.2 Calling API Functions ........................................................................................................ 6
2 System ........................................................................................................................... 7
3 Device Enumeration ....................................................................................................... 8
4 Device Control ............................................................................................................. 10
5 Analog In (Oscilloscope) ............................................................................................... 14
5.1 Control ............................................................................................................................ 14
5.2 Configuration .................................................................................................................. 18
5.3 Channels ......................................................................................................................... 21
5.4 Trigger ............................................................................................................................ 24
5.5 Trigger Detector ............................................................................................................. 27
6 Analog Out (Arbitrary Waveform Generator) ................................................................ 34
6.1 Control ............................................................................................................................ 36
6.2 Configuration .................................................................................................................. 37
6.3 States .............................................................................................................................. 47
7 Analog I/O ................................................................................................................... 51
8 Digital I/O .................................................................................................................... 55
9 Digital In (Logic Analyzer) ............................................................................................. 58
9.1 Control ............................................................................................................................ 59
9.2 Configuration .................................................................................................................. 61
9.3 Trigger ............................................................................................................................ 65
9.4 Trigger Detector ............................................................................................................. 67
10 Digital Out (Pattern Generator) .................................................................................... 68
10.1 Control ........................................................................................................................ 70
10.2 Configuration .............................................................................................................. 71
11 Deprecated functions ................................................................................................... 80