To enable the measurement of analog waveforms outside of the ADCs input voltage range, the measured signal has to pass several signal processing stages. +
The analog hardware prepares the signal for digitalization.
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Figure 1 shows an overview of the front-end stages and is applied to both analog channels of the Signal-Toolkit.
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image::https://es.technikum-wien.at/openlab/openlab_wiki/wikis/img/sig_proc_osci_hardware/sig_proc_osci_hardware_overview.PNG[caption="Figure 1: ",title="Overview of the structural design of the OpenLab oscilloscope front-end",align="center"]
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A detailed description of each stage will be given by the following sub-chapters.
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* https://es.technikum-wien.at/openlab/openlab_wiki/wikis/sig_proc_osci_stage1[Stage 1 Front-End Impedance and Capacitance Matching]
* https://es.technikum-wien.at/openlab/openlab_wiki/wikis/sig_proc_osci_stage2[Stage 2 Offset Compensation and Op-amp Input Stage]