Re: [time-nuts] OT: 10 MHz data capture, help

2009-04-25 Thread Hal Murray
I have a old data device that is spitting out TTL data at 10 MHz. There's just a data line (no clock) but the edges clearly indicate an internal 10 MHz clock. I'd like to do a continuous capture of the bits, for up to tens of minutes, into a PC. That comes to about 1 GB of raw data. I can

Re: [time-nuts] Characterising frequency standards

2009-04-25 Thread Steve Rooke
Hi Magnus, 2009/4/14 Magnus Danielson mag...@rubidium.dyndns.org Say I have a 1Hz input source and my counter measures the period of the first cycle and assigns this to A1. At the end of the first cycle the counter is able to be rest and re-triggered to capture the second cycle and

Re: [time-nuts] OT: 10 MHz data capture, help

2009-04-25 Thread John Miles
It might make sense to layout something on the front section of the board. As long as that section isn't stuffed it won't get in the way. Whatever is likely to be most popular. Does anybody know of an inexpensive FPGA card like that? Tom eventually went with a USBee SX board. The

Re: [time-nuts] OT: 10 MHz data capture, help

2009-04-25 Thread Tom Van Baak
There are two issues with this problem. One is clock recovery. The other is getting a large chunk of data into memory and presumably on to disk. This leads in to a question I've been meaning to ask for a while. I've been looking for a low cost FPGA on PCI board. This might be a wild goose