Investigation Of The Performance Of Raspberry Pi To Digitize Analog Signal With Respect To 8-Bit And 12-Bit Vertical Resolutions

Norshas Nanawawi, Muhammad Aminrul (2018) Investigation Of The Performance Of Raspberry Pi To Digitize Analog Signal With Respect To 8-Bit And 12-Bit Vertical Resolutions. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Lightning has been a mysterious natural phenomenon since ancient time. Although the phenomenon of lightning has been revealed as the transmission of electrical discharges, there are still many unknown areas inside the occasion of lightning itself. Thus, the studies or researches about lightning are still a hot topic and being carried out until nowadays. A lot of equipment involved during these researches but they are very expensive, turn out to be costly budget to the whole research or studies. For example, Piscoscope is a PC software develop by Pico Technology Inc. with a lot of functionalities such as oscilloscope and digitizer. However, the market pricing for a standard PicoScope package is more than RM 8,000 depending on the models and specifications. A master kit of PicoScope can reach more than RM 10,000 per unit. Therefore, this project is carried out to make a low-cost digitizer by implementing a module (BitScope) onto Raspberry Pi board. Why is this digitizer so important? As we know, the signals from this real world, including lightning signals are in the analog form which cannot be understand by electronics components which communicate in digital form. Therefore, implementing the Raspberry Pi board as the ADC is the great use and help in converting the real-world signals and further processing to extract vital information from the lightning signals.

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