Tools and Techniques

This is the beginning of a page to reorganize Techniques and to include both software and hardware tools and to perhaps distinguish, design, debuggin and building tools. Just an idea for now not linked into the wiki.

Design and Building

Circuit Schematics

Schematic Capture

Circuit simulation

Common Hand Tools Soldering Iron

CAD

CAM

Micprocessor

Assemblers Compilers Simulators

Test Equipment

Oscilliscopes Logic Anilizers Signal Generators Multimeters Power Meters

Microcontroller Programmers In Circuit Serial Bootloaders

Debugging

InCircuit Debugging

PC Sound Card Based Test Instruments

Oscilliscope

Signal Generator

http://www.slatecreekengineering.com/SoundArb.htm

SoundArb is a free program from David Sherman Engineering Co. that allows you to control a PC sound card like you would a conventional function generator. You can select standard waveforms, load arbitrary waveforms from a text wave table file, control the frequency and amplitude of the waveform, and select from a versatile set of triggering modes. With a stereo sound card, one channel can be used as a "sync" output.

http://www.epanorama.net/links/pc_sound.html scroll down to: Signal generator software

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Signal waveform analyzing tools

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FFT spectrum analyzer programs