Project ExplorerΒΆ
Each PowerDesk project posesses two fundamental building blocks: devices and workspace. Project Explorer is a component enabling a user to easily and efficiently interact with these items. To change device state, start and stop real-time data acquisition sessions, interact with device memmory, or perform computation and processing of the received data.
Any device connected to PowerDesk by means of an FTDI chip can appear under Devices item of the Project Explorer. By right clicking on any individual device, the user can alter the device state or manage real-time data ascuisitin sessions.
Each device posseses several analaogue data channels. Each of these channels behaves like a Dynamic Systems Toolkit signal. Right clicking on any channel, it is possible to schedule operations on the underlying data, including computation of spectra, scaling, adding offsets, multiplying several channels, etc.
Below the Devices item, there is another important item labeled Signals and Spectra, which shows current content of the DST Workspace. It holds different signals and spectra obtained by processing device channels, evaluation of custom expressions, and similar.
