Re: AN: Open Instrumentation Project Progress

On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:29:07 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello Martin,


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.


That is quite a good approach. Nowadays a USB interface would almost be
a must as most laptops do not offer a parallel port anymore. Also, I'd
probably spend a couple bucks more on the log detector :-)


Warning engineer designed website, may offend many non engineers


It's quite good but bogs down older PCs because it is all placed on one
long page. Better to split it up and use hyperlinks.
Just wondering...

Having a laptop next to a spectrum analyser will corrupt all/many of
it readings, wont it?


martin
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