From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [time-nuts] On some pitfalls of the dual mixer time differencemethod of h... Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 13:53:57 EDT Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Hello Ulrich, Ulrich and Said, > the latest generation of TSC intruments (the TSC5120A for example) uses a > new strategy: they use four ADC's to sample and cross-correlate two > oscillators > completely in software. All the mixing etc is done in the software domain. > That makes for cheap hardware, and works quite well. They had a tutorial > about > this at this years UFFC in Miami. You also get some insight when picking up the manuals from their web. It is a quite different animal in implementation than the old hardware correlatetors are, which has both benefits and drawbacks. It is however a very modern approach indeed. Cheers, Magnus _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list time-nuts@febo.com https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts