Re: AN: Open Instrumentation Project Progress

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 19:10:09 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Peter,


The Open Instrumentation Project (OIP) has been formed to support
open-source software and low cost hardware for electronic
instrumentation.
Currently available instruments include an oscilloscope, waveform
generator
and network analyser. Source code is available at sourceforge/oip.
Information on the hardware is available at www.syscompdesign.com.


Just an idea: What mankind really needs is a simple spectrum analyzer
for EMC pre-compliance work. Nothing fancy, just something that ranges
from 150kHz to 1GHz and can show the ballpark numbers. IOW where people
can see how good their chances are before they head off to that
expensive lab test. This tool would also be useful when they have come
back from the EMC lab with a black eye and must chase those nasty clocks
that pushed them over the cert limits.

It doesn't have to be much, maybe a glorified scanner without a front
panel but with a USB connection and nifty display software.

Yep, seems like a good idea, Joerg
maybe this
http://users4.ev1.net/%7Ewsprowls/ as a starting point.

Warning engineer designed website, may offend many non engineers


martin
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