Complexity: easyWhat do you need:two CC1310 LaunchPadsa power bank or Battery BoosterPacka Sharp LCD BoosterPack We'll build a mobile kit to test the reception strength of the CC1310 radio. You can walk away from home with one of the LaunchPads ...
In my previous blog post I finished by expressing my hope that I'd be able to automate the steps I manually described for loading arbitrary waveforms into the 33622A Waveform Generator using BenchVue's Test Flow application. After some ...
I've been having loads of fun playing with BenchVue, the Pro Apps for DMMs and Function Generators, and with Keysight's BenchLink Waveform Builder Pro. I have encountered a few hiccups, but things have gone smoothly for the most part. My p...
I have been working on the background steps necessary to perform the complete Road \test of BenchVue and the pro apps I was provided. To recap I plan to use BenchVue and the pro apps for the 34461A34461A multimeter and the 33622A3362...
Last night I played with the pro version of the BenchVue multimeter application, without first reading any of the documentation, 'cause that's what most engineers do, right?Turns out the interface is intuitive enough and peppered with enough pop up h...
Complexity: mediumWhat do you need:a CC1310 LaunchPadCode Composer Studio Wirelsess Sensor Network Node example loadedAn instrument to log low currents This blog digs into the sub-module that manages communication with sensors. A dedicated...
Complexity: mediumWhat do you need:two CC1310 LaunchPadsCode Composer StudioTI RTOSSensor Controller Studio This blog digs into the sub-module that manages communication with sensors. A dedicated part of the IC that takes care that Radio and CPU...
Complexity: mediumWhat do you need:two CC1310 LaunchPadsCode Composer StudioTI RTOSSensor Controller Studio This blog digs into the sub-module that manages communication with sensors. A dedicated part of the IC that takes care that Radio and CPU...
Complexity: mediumWhat do you need:two CC1310 LaunchPads Out of BoxCode Composer StudioTI RTOSSensor Controller Studiour brain This blog digs into the sub-module that manages communication with sensors. A dedicated part of the IC that takes care...
I received an email from OSH Park that my boards are back from fab, so it should only be a few more days to see if my parts fit the footprints I created. Also, I received an email from Altium for 20% off the cost of Circuit Studio. This went to ...
Acting on information from Peter Oakes (thanks) I downloaded the Keysight IO Libraries Suite 17.3 - 976Mbytes, reasonable speed of download here. Then I installed it - you get offered to install the IO stuff, Command something and BenchVue ...
On my electronics bench there are presently four Keysight/Aglient branded test instruments. They are: 33622A Waveform Generator53230A Universal Frequency Counter/Timer34461A 6 1/2 digit MultimeterN9322C 7.0 GHz Spectrum Analyzer All o...
Having read Mark's early experience I thought installing the BenchVue code would be a doddle - the heavy lifting having been done already by someone else. Not quite !! I decided to put it on a computer outside mainstream use because I've ex...
My appreciation goes out to Element 14 and to Keysight for selecting me to participate in the BenchVue RoadTest. I am still in awe at how great a program Road Test is. Really valuable and useful stuff for free in exchange for your honest ...
To some extent gloves are a harder challenge for a capacitive sensor than thick front panels as the sensor can't be calibrated up front for a specific pair of gloves. For my testing I picked 3 different gloves. The first are heavy duty PVC, the k...
The next part of my roadtest with the CapTIvate sensors is to see how they perform with different front panel materials. If you think of the basics a capacitor is two conductors separated by an insulator. If we put in thick insulator with different d...
Time to create our first Radio project. A transmitter. Part 2 and final. We continue with the project we created in part 1. At the end of this blog, we 'll have our transmitter running. And we'll be able to test it. Change our S...
Time to create our first Radio project. A transmitter. We start with the empty project from the previous blog, and use SmartRF Studio to configure our Sender profile. SmartRF Studio We've used SmartRF Studio in the seco...
Fast Track for new projects - The Empty RTOS Project Creation Wizard The TI-RTOS installation comes with 2 kickstarters for new projects. One gives you an empty RTOS shell. The other one pre-loads some drivers and creates 1 example task. W...
As mentioned at the end of part 2, I've installed Code Composer Studio so that I can upload new code to the development board. following the workshop guide the first step is to generate some code from design studio and import it into CCS. This works ...
Debug Time ! www.youtube.com/watch Let's check how you can debug a conversation between two Sub-1 GHz Radios.We'll use the TI-RTOS simplest example, and place some strategic breakpoints.One on the sender side, just before transmission, when...
To use the development kit you need to download and install the "CapTIvate Design Center" GUI CapTIvate_Design_Center 1_20_00_01 - TI.com This allows you to see the outputs from the sensors and design new interfaces. The installa...
MSP CapTIvate MCU Development Kit from TI First impressions of this kit is that it exudes quality. A sturdy cardboard box is lined with high quality foam inserts. Each of the boards is wrapped in an anti-static bag, there are 6 in total. The bo...
I have been blogging on how to make the two seemingly identical LaunchPads distinct, and how to configure Code Composer Studio to recognise them. We've coloured the labels of our sender and receiver LaunchPad. We coloured the bac...
