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Each invariant records what went wrong rather than only the rule: a port hit that lost its node, a hit test at the identity view that asserts nothing, a `Delete` that must not fall through to the selected node, and a column pitch too narrow for a wire's own tread. The warning baseline drops to four.
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<b>Math channels</b>
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A math channel is a signal computed from other signals. You build it as a small graph — source
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nodes, operations, one output — and udpscope then treats the result as an ordinary channel.
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<b>How to reach it</b>
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The math button in the toolbar, or <tt>g</tt>. The pane's <tt>+</tt> adds a channel — a picker
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chooses the op — and opening one shows the graph editor: nodes as boxes, click a box to select it
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and edit its parameters beside the canvas.
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<b>Graph gestures:</b> <b>drag</b> from an output port to an input port to wire them; drag a
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wired input port off its connection to detach it; click a wire and press <tt>Delete</tt> to remove
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it; drag a box to move it. <b>Wheel</b> zooms about the pointer. <b>Drag the background</b> to
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pan. <tt>f</tt> fits all nodes into view; <tt>Ctrl+0</tt> resets the view. <tt>Tidy</tt> in the
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toolbar lays the graph out in topological columns. The orange dot marks the output node; click
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<i>set as output</i> to move it.
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<b>Worth knowing</b>
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• The graph is evaluated as an ordered list, so a node may only read ones <i>above</i> it. A
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wire drawn right to left re-sorts the list silently so the graph stays valid. A cycle is
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unrepresentable: the connection is refused rather than created.
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• A derived channel <i>is</i> a channel. It appears in the signal panel, can be plotted,
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measured, exported, and used as a source for another math channel.
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• The math runs on the <b>stored</b> samples — decimated and averaged — so a cutoff you type in
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Hz means the rate the filter will actually run at. Change the window across a decimation
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boundary and the coefficients are rebuilt for the new rate.
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• A source may only name an <i>acquired</i> channel. The stream's timestamp signal is not one:
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a graph sourced from it validates and then reads NaN for ever, so the dropdown does not
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offer it.
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• The output defaults to the <i>last</i> node, and a node added to a linear graph becomes the
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output. Choosing an earlier node explicitly is respected.
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• Every numeric field starts at its own identity value — gain 1, offset 0 — not at the bottom
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of its range.
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<b>Example</b>
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<tt>[sine] → [gain x2]</tt> gives a channel reading <tt>y=[-2, 2]</tt>. A 100 Hz low pass on the
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same source passes 50 Hz at 0.97 and 2 kHz at 0.002; a 1 kHz band pass with Q=2 passes 200 Hz at
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0.05, 1 kHz at 0.95 and 4 kHz at 0.05. Each derived channel must hold exactly as many samples as
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the shared clock has time slots.
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<b>Why an operation sometimes does nothing</b>. A graph's <i>output</i> is the node whose value
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becomes the channel, and it is drawn as the orange dot. A new graph is built source, then operation,
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and the last node added becomes the output -- but a graph whose output is left on the source is
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valid and simply passes its input through, which is the usual reason a gain or a filter appears to
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have no effect. <i>Set as output</i> moves the dot.
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<b>Apply is insensitive while the graph is incomplete.</b> A line beneath the form says why:
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an input that is not connected, no output chosen, or a <i>channel</i> node naming a signal the
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scope is not acquiring. Only the channels being acquired are offered, because a source that is not
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acquired reads as no data for ever — and a graph that reads NaN is harder to diagnose than one that
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would not save.
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<b>The filters are real filters.</b> A math channel's samples are produced as the stream arrives,
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once per stored slot, so a low pass carries the history a filter needs. A cutoff typed in hertz is
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against the <i>stored</i> rate, which is the wire rate until a wide window makes the buffer decimate
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-- the status line's rate is that number, and the filters are rebuilt whenever it changes.
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