ADS8688EVM-PDK Kit Operation
6.4.1
Manual Mode
Manual mode can be activated by clicking on the Manual Channel N button on the left side of the GUI
window and by selecting Data Capture from the drop-down menu, as shown in
. In manual
mode, data are captured for the channel selected by the Channel Name drop-down menu. The sampling
rate and number of samples for the data capture can be entered in the ADC Capture Settings box. The
ADS8688EVM GUI supports a sampling rate from 20 kSPS to 500 kSPS. The sampling rate is adjusted to
the closest value obtained from
.
Sampling Rate (kSPS) = 17000 / [34 + K]
where
•
0
≤
K
≤
816, and K is an integer.
(1)
The GUI supports a capture of 1024 samples to 8388608 samples. For sampling rates less than 100
kSPS, the maximum number of samples are limited to 131072 per capture. The number of samples are
adjusted to the closest power of 2. The data captured are displayed in a graph in the GUI window.
Figure 21. Manual Mode Data Capture
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ADS8688EVM-PDK Evaluation Module
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