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My name is Sam, I am a web developer at Digilent.

Hi Yall,
My name is Robert or Bobby, Which ever you prefer. I'm a junior Electrical Engineering major at the University of Idaho. All of our labs are using Digilent boards such as the Cerebot MX7cK pic32 for my Microcontrollers lab. It's all very exciting and new. I love the challenge being presented to me and it's making my semester great. Thanks for doing what you guys do best!
With Professional and Platonic Love,
Bobby or Robert

Hi all,
My name is Serge, I work for MIPS (now Imagination Technologies) doing simulators for verification. Microcontrollers are my hobby, and I have several pet projects, like: RetroBSD, LiteBSD, QEMU for pic32, pic32sim, pic32prog and ejtagproxy. I use Max32, WF32 and WiFire boards, and some pmods.
Thank you.

Hi, all. My name is Matt and I am a hobbyist and also an electronics technician by trade.
 
I own a Digilent Analog Discovery w/BNC adapter board, and a Nexys2-1200 w/parallel LCD, also from Digilent. I use TINA and Waveforms, and have the Analog Parts kit and Mastech DMM in your product line. I have worked through most of Real Analog, and all of Real Digital, and have both Digital Design books by Haskell, and the FPGA book listed on your website.
 
I have used your products and worked through so many of your materials and recommended books because as I have tried each one, I have found it to be a top notch quality resource. My personal favorite *BY FAR* is Real Analog. I do not know the instructor's name, but kudos to that man for clarity of instruction. I have learned much from him. Give him a raise!
 
I list all this out to give you a bit of background on me before I say this: Please continue making educational materials. Your Analog Discovery product is awesome, but it was Real Analog that elevated me as a technician and budding engineering student and made me want MORE. Real Digital was good, too. There are tons of "entry-level" educational materials on the internet, but they all share a common lack of depth and mathematical rigor. Real Analog was a massive breath of fresh air. As someone who has a casual understanding of calculus, and no idea what a differential equation was when I started Real Analog, I was impressed at the depth of material and simultaneously the ease of learning that the program provided. It made me Google and Youtube things like "Complex Impedance" and "Phasor Diagram" and "Solving Differential Equations", something I had never done before.
 
For the marketing folks here, I would emphasize the value in having educational materials using your products, akin to the Real Analog-Analog Discovery dichotomy. Make a program teaching microcontrollers (with rigor!) using your ChipKit products. Make a digital course using Basys or Nexys products (or either/both!). That's why I got Haskell's books with my Nexys2, and also why I bought Pong P. Chu's book instead of another FPGA book. I had a lab in my hand that the *book used*.
 
If you build it, they will come; and buy the accessories, to boot.
 
P.S. Thanks for everything your company has done. You're awesome, and I recommend you to every amateur, student, hobbyist, ham radio operator, and some professionals that I know.

In case your Electronics Explorer board is not detected by WaveForms application try to do the followings:   1. Check if it is properly supplied with 12V and the Red Power LED is on?     The USB controller is powered by this supply, connecting only the USB cable is not suffice.   2. Check if the Yellow USB LED is on when the USB cable is connected?     Otherwise, try to use another micro USB cable and computer plug.   3. Remove the board supply, wait a minute then connect it back.     Do this, to make sure that all the internal circuits are reset.   4. Check the Windows Device Manager if any new device is listed after you supply the board or connect the USB?     It should appear: Digilent USB Device or Unknown Device.   5. In case you see Digilent USB Device but it is not detected by WaveForms:     restart the computer, reinstall the application including the Adept Runtime section.   6. In case you see Unknown Device, verify the Hardware IDs under Properties, Details tab.     If this is USBVID_04B4&PID_8613... Use this application reprogram the USB EEPROM: DigilentFX2Repair.exe

During device opening internal chips are enabled and configured. This results in consumption increases, specially when the 100 MHz clock (PLL) is started. The needed current increases from 100mA to 500mA. In case the USB can't provide enough current the voltage drops below the minimal required for the device to operate and communication fails.
 
In case you get “Device configuration failed (PLL 1)" or "Communication with the device failed.” error message:
The device needs at least 2W/400mA from USB cable. To satisfy this:
- Try to use different USB cable and computer plug.
- Use the USB plug on the back of the PC, not the one on the front panel.
- Use short cable, do not use long cable or cable extender.
- Use powered USB-hub, avoid un-powered hub.
- Use USB-Y cable to load power from two plugs.
 
Device not detected by WaveForms:
Open Windows Device Manager then connect the device and wait up to one minute for a device to appear:
 - USB Serial Converter, with warning
- Connect the device directly to the computer's USB plug without using external hub.
- Restart the computer.
- Reinstall WaveForms, including the Adept Runtime section.
 - USB Serial Converter, without warning
- Restart the computer.
- Reinstall WaveForms, including the Adept Runtime section.
- Other application might have erased the USB controller EEPROM (FT_Prog, programming cable drivers...)
 Use the "My device is not listed" button in WaveForms application Device Manager to reprogram the EEPROM.
 - Unknown Device
    Check the Hardware IDs under device Properties, Details tab
- USBVID_0403&PID_6014
  The USB driver is not installed.
- Restart the computer.
- Reinstall WaveForms, including the Adept Runtime section.
- USBVID_0000&PID_0000
  Device not identified or malfunction. See "Nothing shows up".
 - Nothing shows up:
- Connect the device directly to the computer's USB plug without using external hub.
- Try to use different USB cable and computer plug.
   The device or its plug might be damaged.

Hi, my name is Gian I'm an hobbist. My Interest cover FPGA. I bought some of your products (basys2 to Nexys4) that I regular use. This forum is a good idea!!

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Welcome to the Digilent Forum! Our goal is to not only create a place where you can get support for our products, but also a community to share your projects. We are just getting started with our forum, so if there is anything you would like to see or if you would like to make any suggestions, please head over to the suggestions forum and let us know. 
 
My name is Sam, I am a web developer at Digilent.

Questions will not be answered here, start a new thread in the Technical Forum
 
Welcome to the Digilent Forum! Our goal is to not only create a place where you can get support for our products, but also a community to share your projects. We are just getting started with our forum, so if there is anything you would like to see or if you would like to make any suggestions, please head over to the suggestions forum and let us know. 
 
My name is Sam, I am a web developer at Digilent.