LabTool – with LPC-Link 2 Embedded Artists

DESCRIPTION

RETIRED PRODUCT – We’ve stopped stocking this product or it has been retired by the manufacturer and is no longer for sale. This page remains available for its resources and as a source of potential interest.

LabTool is a versatile and powerful addition to your lab bench! It is an add-on board to the LPC-Link 2 (which is based on the LPC4370 – a 204 MHz Cortex-M4 with an 80 MHz ADC and two extra Cortex-M0 cores). This complete kit of the LabTool and LPC-Link 2 make use of all features on the LPC4370, creating a powerful development tool.

• 11 channel logic analyser (up to 100Msamples per second)
• 2 channel oscilloscope (up to 80 Msamples per second, 6MHz BW)
• 11 channel digital signal generator (up to 80 Msamples per second)
• 2 channel analogue signal generator (40kHz BW)

The feature rich Windows software interface supports:

• One shot and continuous sampling
• Sorting and moving of signals
• SPI, I2C, UART signal interpreters
• Project settings can be saved and restored
• Collected data can be exported
• Four cursors available to help interpret captured data
• Open source software
• Prepared for running under Linux and MAC

FEATURES

• Digital inputs
  • 11 channel logic analyser
  • without trigger: 100 Msps (1-4 ch), 50 Msps (5-8 ch), 20 Msps (9-11 ch)
  • with trigger: 100 Msps (1-2 ch), 80 Msps (3-4 ch), 40 Msps (5-8 ch), 20 Msps (9-11 ch)
  • Falling/rising edge triggers with logical OR between channels
  • 3.3V logic level as default but 2.4-5.5V supported via DIO_VCC
• Analogue inputs
  • 2 channel oscilloscope
  • 60 Msps (1 ch) and 30 Msps (2 ch) sampling (can be increased to 80/40 Msps if no hardware trigger is enabled)
  • +-25V input range, 1 Mohm input impedance, TBD pF input capacitance
  • AC/DC control
  • BNC connector and flexible cables via 26-pos IDC connector
  • 6 MHz BW (3 MHz for 20mV/div range and up to 12 MHz on 0.2V/div and 5V/div range)
• Digital outputs
  • 11 channel digital signal generator
  • 80 Msps
  • 3.3V logic level
• Analogue outputs
  • 2 channel analogue signal generator
  • +-5V, 40 kHz BW
  • Sine, square and triangle waveforms
• Dimensions
83 x 90 mm
• Power
  • 5.0V via mini-B USB connector
• Connectors
  • 26-pos IDC connector for digital and analogue I/O
  • Two BNC connectors
  • Calibration signals, 1.25V/78mV
  • Demo signals
  • Cortex debug connector to on-board LPC812 (2×5 pos)
  • Cortex debug connector from LPC-Link 2 connectors (2×5 pos)
• Other
  • 12 channel demo signal generator (UART, I2C, SPI, counter, PWM) from on-board LPC812.
  • HW provision for I2C logging (sw not implemented)
  • Analogue calibration, can be done by user
  • Open source software

RESOURCES

• LabTool User’s Manual
• Board Schematics (Login required)
• LPC4370 product page (the LPC4370 is a triple core processor, 1xCM4+2xCM0, and have a fast ADC, 80Msample/sec)
• Embedded Artists’ general RoHS 2 declaration

Installer

• For Windows: LabTool Installer v1.1 (19.9Mb) (MD5 checksum: 16de66f731895bdba5408f0bce5ef45d)
• For Raspberry Pi: labtool_raspi_2013-10-30.tgz (1Mb) (MD5 checksum: b06aa3bbba7b037fac0cc9beccec879f)

  Instructions for using the Raspberry Pi archive can be found here

• Binaries for the LPC4370 and LPC812: labtool_binaries_2013-10-30.zip (84Kb) (MD5 checksum: ae35a4fcf7fbf2a75b933e889a27b422)

Software

The software is open source and is available on github

Discussions

There is a mailing list available for discussions about problems or improvements.