analog-hw-measure

analog-hw-measure is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vibeic/vibe-ic. It costs 47 tokens per session (1,383 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A hardware measurement step that captures real analog signals with an oscilloscope and reads voltages through an FPGA's analog-to-digital converter. It turns those readings into a report that can be compared with circuit simulations.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to capture waveforms, frequencies, duty cycles, amplitudes, and DC voltages from programmed analog hardware. It supports measurements such as LDO output, load regulation, and transient response.
Why use it?
It reveals how the physical circuit behaves, including differences that simulation may miss. This provides measurements for checking whether the block meets its limits.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is python3 programs/scope_waveform_metrics.py <scope_csv> \.

Part of the vibe-ic plugin — 70 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to capture waveforms, frequencies, duty cycles, amplitudes, and DC voltages from programmed analog hardware. It supports measurements such as LDO output, load regulation, and transient response.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vibeic/vibe-ic
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vibeic/vibe-ic/analog-hw-measure

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install vibe-ic, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 70 skills, 8 commands, 8 agents, 2 hooks, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,383 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00047 $0.01383
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00691
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00138

Measured 12d ago against content hash 9aa76eec6462, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analog-hw-measure scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (tests/test_compliance.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

vibe-ic-marketplace/plugins/vibe-ic/skills/analog-hw-measure/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Analog HW Measure

Drives the measurement instruments (oscilloscope + FPGA ADC) to capture real analog block behavior, then parses the results into a structured measurement report comparable to SPICE simulation output.

When to use

  • After analog-hw-testbench-gen has programmed the FPGA
  • When the user says "measure the LDO output", "capture scope waveform"
  • During analog-hw-tuning-loop iterations

Inputs

  1. analog/<block>/spec.json — specs with min/max limits
  2. analog/<block>/hw_test/pin_assignments.qsf — which scope channel maps to which signal
  3. Scope connection info (default: lab at )
  4. FPGA ADC channel mapping

MCP tools used

Tool Purpose
device_scope_capture Capture transient waveform (CSV: time, voltage)
device_scope_periodic_pulse_check Measure frequency, duty cycle, amplitude
eda_fpga_adc_read Read MAX10 ADC for DC voltage (when available)
device_camera_led_diff Capture LED pass/fail indication

Measurement types per block

Block type Key measurements Instrument
LDO Vout DC, load regulation, PSRR, transient response ADC (DC) + Scope (transient)
Oscillator Frequency, duty cycle, jitter, startup time Scope (periodic)
POR Trip voltage, hysteresis, release delay Scope (single-shot ramp)
Bandgap Vref DC, temperature coefficient ADC (DC, sweep temp manually)
Comparator Propagation delay, offset, hysteresis Scope (transient)

Workflow

  1. Verify FPGA is programmed and scope is connected
  2. For each spec in spec.json: a. Configure scope timebase and trigger (via stimulus controller) b. Trigger measurement sequence on FPGA c. Capture data via appropriate MCP tool d. Parse captured data → extract metric e. Compare against spec limits → PASS/FAIL
  3. Aggregate all measurements into report

Waveform parsing

The DC/rise/settling/overshoot/freq/jitter math below is FIXED and deterministic — do NOT re-derive it by hand each run. Once you have a captured scope CSV (time,voltage), invoke the program so the numbers come out identically every time:

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 130 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 9aa76eec6462

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analog-hw-measure is a skill published in the GitHub repository vibeic/vibe-ic (23 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 1,383 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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