Yes, and it can be quite easy to do. A friend whipped one out in day. Has 16 inputs (used to be 8 inputs) and time stamps any selected edge transition and queues up the time stamp counter/channel values which get written into a bigger RAM buffer queue which gets periodically dumped out via USB. The master counter runs at 100 Mhz (used to be 80 MHz) so the time stamps have 10 ns resolution (all that was needed for his application). The later version also decoded a GPS time stamp input for absolute timing. Alas, again, it was developed for a paying customer so he can't share the exact design... I've been trying to get him to sell a commercial version... it's a really slick and handy device.
-------------------- > My straw man would be a FPGA. The idea is to collect a batch of pulse arrival times and DMA them into memory. When the buffer fills up or a timer expires, it would finish that block and switch to the next one. You could feed a PPS to the FPGA if you want timing linked to the outside world rather than just relative times. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
