Installing Waveforms

On Mac OSX
1. Go to digilentinc.com
2. Find Waveforms 2015 > Download Here
The top tab should read: Diligent Documentation > Reference > Software > Waveforms > Waveforms 2015
3. Go to the latest downloads and select the download for Mac OSX
4. Download and then double click to open
5. Drag Waveforms into Applications
6. To support analog discovery install the followng driver:
Double click DigilentFtdiDriver.pkg
7. We need to change the security settings if it can't download.
8. Go to the apple in the top left hand corner of your screen > System Preferences > Security and Privacy > Open Anyway > Continue > Continue > Continue > Agree to terms > Install > Enter password for the computer > Install software
9. Open Applications folder > double click on Waveforms to open
Again, we must change the security and privacy settings.
10. Security Systems > open anyway > open.

 On Linux (Ubuntu)
1. Go to digilentinc.com
2. Find Waveforms 2015 > Download Here
The top tab should read: Diligent Documentation > Reference > Software > Waveforms > Waveforms 2015
3. Go to the latest downloads and select the download 64-bit deb under Linux
4. Next under Supported Operating Systems click Adept 2 in green
5. Under Runtime - Latest Downloads select Linux 64-bit deb
6. After both have downloaded now open the terminal
7. In the terminal navigate to cd Downloads. Here you should see both of the files that you just downloaded which should look something like:
digilent.adept.runtime_2.16.6-amd64.deb
digilent.waveforms_3.5.4_amd64.deb
8. Now run the command sudo dpkg -i digilent.adept.runtime_2.16.6-amd64.deb
9. Next run the command sudo dpkg -i digilent.waveforms_3.5.4_amd64.deb
10. If everything was run properly, you should be able to search waveforms and see the icon

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Below is a helpful link for using the Wave Generator in Waveforms:
https://reference.digilentinc.com/learn/instrumentation/tutorials/ad2-waveform-generator/start


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