Digilent Analog Shield

Key parts on the shield

• ADS8343: 16 bit, 4 channel Analog to Digital converter
• DAC8564: 16 bit, 4 channel Digital to Analog converter
• Variable 7.5V bipolar power supply
• Fixed 5V bipolar power supply
• Solderless Breadboard

Supported Boards

• chipKIT Uno32*
• chipKIT UC32*
• chipKIT Max32*
• chipKIT WF32*
• Arduino Uno

The Analog Shield is a low cost digital signal processing Shield designed to work with the Arduino UNO and chipKIT line of microcontroller boards. It was created in collaboration with Stanford University, the TI University Program and Digilent Inc.

The Analog Shield is designed with TI analog technology that provides up to 4 channels of 16-bit analog signal input and output. Also on board are integrated fixed +/-5V and variable +/- 7.5V power supplies.

• Schematic – PDF
• Reference Manual – Wiki Page PDF
  • The Wiki page may have more up-to-date information than the PDF
• Sell Sheet – Sell Sheet currently unavailable, please see the reference manual for product detail
• Library – zip Github

• Download A collection of Instructables tutorials prepared by Stanford for the Analog Shield. Intended for Arduino™ users.
• Download This library provides optimized functions to quickly read and write analog signals to and from the Analog Shield on the Arduino UNO and several chipKIT boards. The included demos illustrate how to collect and replicate analog signals with varying sample rates.

Arduino

• Direct Digital Synthesis Function Generator add link
• FFT Sectrum Visualizer add link
• Polyphonic Music Player add link
• Lissajou Demo add link

chipKIT

• Direct Digital Synthesis Function Generator add link
• FFT Sectrum Visualizer add link
• Polyphonic Music Player add link
• Lissajou Demo add link

• Digilent Forum