Looking for a T&M piece of equipment, close to a pattern generator or arbitrary waveform generator.
Essentially a multiple channels (Let's say 8 - 16 channels) of digital outputs with a graphical interface to design a waveform, set amplitude, frequency, burst length, etc. Bonus if it can formulate data packets (serial, ethernet, etc.).
Basically I want something that can output all of the functions a logic analyzer could measure.
All the function generators I've seen are more limited in features from the digital front, and have only 1-2 channels.
Does this exist? How do people test their equipment? It seems like being able to source reference data for digital equipment would be a common requirement.
In my context, I'd love to be able to emulate a fancy absolute digital encoder signals (including absolute serial data in addition to incremental tracks), or incremental encoders with hall effect signals. This would require a minimum of 9 channels of parallel data. I can of course run a real encoder into the circuit, but this seems... imprecise.
Essentially a multiple channels (Let's say 8 - 16 channels) of digital outputs with a graphical interface to design a waveform, set amplitude, frequency, burst length, etc. Bonus if it can formulate data packets (serial, ethernet, etc.).
Basically I want something that can output all of the functions a logic analyzer could measure.
All the function generators I've seen are more limited in features from the digital front, and have only 1-2 channels.
Does this exist? How do people test their equipment? It seems like being able to source reference data for digital equipment would be a common requirement.
In my context, I'd love to be able to emulate a fancy absolute digital encoder signals (including absolute serial data in addition to incremental tracks), or incremental encoders with hall effect signals. This would require a minimum of 9 channels of parallel data. I can of course run a real encoder into the circuit, but this seems... imprecise.