Digilent employee here - you don't need to use the external power supply to use the beefed up programmable power supply on the 2230, so long as the Type C port on your PC can provide a 3 A output.

Other comments. 5250 is Windows only due to underlying NI Virtualbench material winch is Windows only You can connect two identical devices in WaveForms through Dual Mode. But two different devices would need their own separate instance of WaveForms (just re-open the application for a second instance). Regarding connecting to the 2230 in WaveForms, usually if you have WaveForms open in demo mode and then connect the actual device WaveForms will ask if you want to connect to it. Not certain of the exact hardware setup or WF beta being used in this particular instance for me to test though. 128 MS per input type (analog vs digital) might be more accurate. BRAM is faster, but if you want to use the USB 3.2 Gen 1 streaming capability, then you'll definitely want to use the DDR to have nice large chunks of data to stream rather than a bunch of tiny BRAM chunks that will be limited by USB handshaking for every transaction. Nice review otherwise. Touched on the DDR memory that Dave Jones didn't mention iirc.

Good explanation on bandwidth vs sample rates.

How about work on modern Apple Silicon based devices. Also it's a huge problem to run every tools like as MATLAB, NI on these type of machines: there're no any support from Digilent and other for their tools in MATLAB on Apple Silicon machines such as MBP M1/M2 Pro

Also one little comment about digilent tools performance: it's ugly - warmed laptop who can run games and stay cold it's a beautiful example of quality.

You need to get rid of the luggable HP spectrum analyzer on the shelf and get a Signal Hound USB based spectrum analyzer🙂