From: Jan Panteltje on
On a sunny day (Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:36:38 +0100) it happened Fred Bartoli
<myname_with_a_dot_inbetween(a)free.fr> wrote in
<hnoti5$pg$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>:

>Jan Panteltje a �crit :
>> PIC scope test1
>>
>> This is the maximum aquisition speed I can get out of a PIC 18F14K22,
>> 10 kHz sinewave:
>> ftp://panteltje.com/pub/PIC_18F14K22_scope_10kHz_img_1876.jpg
>>
>> Not bad at all, if you realise it is 127 dots for about 5 periods.
>> With 100 uS per period the display width is about 500 uS,
>> that makes 500 uS / 127 = 3.9, say 4 uS per sample, or 250 kHz from the ADC.
>>
>> Trigger is rock solid too :-)
>> Input is line level audio.
>>
>>
>
>You don't need a PIC to do that. That is, unless you want to impress
>customers...
>
>All that's needed is a gold leaf electroscope, a protractor, a switch
>and a stopwatch, or if you want to get fancy a synchronized rotary switch.

Sure, do you watch TV with a Nipkov disk too?
LOL
:-)

>
>--
>Thanks,
>Fred.
>
From: Fred Bartoli on
Jan Panteltje a �crit :
> On a sunny day (Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:36:38 +0100) it happened Fred Bartoli
> <myname_with_a_dot_inbetween(a)free.fr> wrote in
> <hnoti5$pg$1(a)speranza.aioe.org>:
>
>> Jan Panteltje a �crit :
>>> PIC scope test1
>>>
>>> This is the maximum aquisition speed I can get out of a PIC 18F14K22,
>>> 10 kHz sinewave:
>>> ftp://panteltje.com/pub/PIC_18F14K22_scope_10kHz_img_1876.jpg
>>>
>>> Not bad at all, if you realise it is 127 dots for about 5 periods.
>>> With 100 uS per period the display width is about 500 uS,
>>> that makes 500 uS / 127 = 3.9, say 4 uS per sample, or 250 kHz from the ADC.
>>>
>>> Trigger is rock solid too :-)
>>> Input is line level audio.
>>>
>>>
>> You don't need a PIC to do that. That is, unless you want to impress
>> customers...
>>
>> All that's needed is a gold leaf electroscope, a protractor, a switch
>> and a stopwatch, or if you want to get fancy a synchronized rotary switch.
>
> Sure, do you watch TV with a Nipkov disk too?
> LOL
> :-)
>

For what I watch it, I sure could do...

--
Thanks,
Fred.
From: JosephKK on
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:58:00 GMT, Jan Panteltje <pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>On a sunny day (Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:07:19 -0700) it happened John Larkin
><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote in
><724vp5th3fmmpu75u42duilnlf525q6ivl(a)4ax.com>:
>
>>On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 16:48:31 GMT, Jan Panteltje
>><pNaonStpealmtje(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>>PIC scope test1
>>>
>>>This is the maximum aquisition speed I can get out of a PIC 18F14K22,
>>>10 kHz sinewave:
>>> ftp://panteltje.com/pub/PIC_18F14K22_scope_10kHz_img_1876.jpg
>>>
>>>Not bad at all, if you realise it is 127 dots for about 5 periods.
>>>With 100 uS per period the display width is about 500 uS,
>>>that makes 500 uS / 127 = 3.9, say 4 uS per sample, or 250 kHz from the ADC.
>>>
>>>Trigger is rock solid too :-)
>>>Input is line level audio.
>>>
>>
>>Cool. The first PC scope I did was an IBM 1401 with the waveform
>>plotted on a line printer. Home-made ADC.
>>
>>John
>
>Yes, I did fft display on a printer.....
>Like this:
>********** 1000
>******** 1010
>*********** 1020
>*** 1030
>...
>
>I only made a home made ADC for video in 1979,
>it was a board full of TTL and 74121 one shots.
>6 bits, but it worked, nice picture.
>Then somebody walked in and dropped a datasheet for a chip
>on my desk that did the same thing, but then 8 bits, a 'flash' converter.
>Too many comparators needed :-)
>

Sounds about the time the CDP3308(?) came out.