| ??? 05/25/07 15:00 Read: times |
#139835 - not only... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Richard Erlacher said:
The only positive thing the PC would bring to the table is the display. Everything else associated with computer-controlled test equipment is a negative. Not quite so. There are other theoretical possibilities when using a PC as a base for a measurement device such as an oscilloscope (and I am not talking here on standalone oscilloscopes with embedded PC, but a desktop PC plus a "box" or a card). With a smart system, you might have scriptability, controlling and post-processing plugins, quick storing and moving around the data, remote control of all thinkable way almost out-of-the-box, remote display. However, the major drawback - lack of the knobs and buttons - besides the other minor nuisances, is a definitive showstopper. I know it is relatively easy to mount a couple of knobs and buttons on the box (with the card form this is of course prohibitively impractical), but apparently, nobody does that... JW |
| Topic | Author | Date |
| [OT] DSO- How it's made ? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| look at ADC spec's. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| in other words, | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Not quite | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| tricks & tricks | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Analog memories... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| that's what the analog 'scope does! | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Some interesting reading from Maxim | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I have no doubt you can | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| use for what | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Expansion slot test equipment | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| there is now a plethora of such with USB | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| crappy GUI | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| I prefer the "feel" of manually controlled gear | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| Can't be done, or just hasn't been done? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| there's no reason it couldn't | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| The PeeCee would get in the way | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| not only... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| a few buttons, dials, and knobs, but not enough | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Critics and suggestions invited - 1GHz sampler | 01/01/70 00:00 |