Hi!
On 02/22/2011 06:29 PM, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
Well now that you are committed to the project, it's time for the wish list:
1) Make the beast easier to calibrate and keep in calibration.
2) Improve the accuracy.
100) Add cool features like Avar.
The 5370 dates to a period when the idea of software based calibration was a
bit "out of the box". Weather anything can be done purely in code or not -
no idea. You don't have all the hooks and fiddlers that a more modern box
would have. Anything that helped out on items 1 and 2 would make a swap out
worth it.
Avar isn't all that complex and fantastic. It was done ehm... in the
80ties... (TS105A - using the whoppa-tronic 6502 for real-time
calculations for up to 4 tau-values).
One thing which I have found very useful in instruments like HP4195A is
a built-in language. It beats the (still very handy) math processings.
Basic, forth or Lua... as long as it is simple to edit and cook-up
programms/apps/macros/scripts. It doesn't have to be very fast, but
keeping up with PPS for moderate complex stuff and say 10-100 Hz for
quicker stuff would be handy.
Cheers,
Magnus
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