| jaak |
Sorry I haven't been around much guys, I'm kind of geeking out right now...
I have my hands on a sweet toy. Yes, it does have 500 femptosecond resolution and runs at 40 Gigasamples a second and captures 64 Meg of those samples in one shot. (On more than one channel!)
So it's got my attention this week, I think.... :D
Oh, almost forgot, it sees from DC to 15 GHz in real time, all at once.
I love cool toys!:4: |
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| zebelkhan |
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Originally posted by jaak
Sorry I haven't been around much guys, I'm kind of geeking out right now...
I have my hands on a sweet toy. Yes, it does have 500 femptosecond resolution and runs at 40 Gigasamples a second and captures 64 Meg of those samples in one shot. (On more than one channel!)
So it's got my attention this week, I think.... :D
Oh, almost forgot, it sees from DC to 15 GHz in real time, all at once.
I love cool toys!:4:
As if I understood what you are talking about....:confused: |
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| jaak |
| Actually, I don't have it right now, but that's not the fastest clock edge this thing can measure.... |
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| GripperDon |
A million of a nanosecond WOW! Next is attosecond! and that is short, since A attosecond is one quintillionth (10-18) of a second.
GRIP :2:
P.S. what is it that rises that fast?
Never mind I forgot the "Blond Factor" |
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| jaak |
There's a couple of things driving the need for an instrument like this... The next generation of PCI Express (look for it on your PC in 2-3 years) will run at 5 gigbits per second and high speed telecom signals are also driving demand.
Just think, 16 channels of 5 gigbits a second means your PC will be able to send 80 Gigabits a second to your video card. That should make things a bit snappy!
It's also good if you're measuring a nuclear detonation, but fortunately, I've not had a need for that!
Oh and UWB or Ultra WideBand radio signals....
Had to go look.... It will measure risetimes as small as 19 picoseconds. |
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| GripperDon |
That "It's also good if you're measuring a nuclear detonation" was why I had that Tektronix 0.2 Nanosecond rise time unit that I previously spoke of.
Imagine one laser and X number of optical fibers "all the same length" going to y bunch of detonators filled with light reactive direct secondary detonating compound.
You guys make great stuff and a lot of it before anybody else.
Talk about the VOICE of GOD!
GRIP :D |
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| sid6581 |
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It's also good if you're measuring a nuclear detonation, but fortunately, I've not had a need for that!
Great, we've just been flagged by USA Homeland Security. Way to go jaak :D |
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| jaak |
Yeah, the University of Toronto still has one of those older units that was used for that work... They look at electrical discharges into plasma, if I recall correctly.
Ahh... 4 Ghz, that's kid's stuff now. |
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| jaak |
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Originally posted by sid6581
Great, we've just been flagged by USA Homeland Security. Way to go jaak :D
Oh, so I suppose I shouldn't talk about the Rohde & Schwartz receivers that could pick up the energy from a CRT to allow you to reconstruct the screen image. Right through a brick wall.
Oops. Too late.:rolleyes: |
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| GripperDon |
| That sounds neato, Tell us more. GRIP :D |
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| jaak |
| I can't they're about to confiscate my computer...;) |
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| jaak |
Holy Schamolie, that's ancient...
Try http://www.rsd.de and you can spend quite a while there.... |
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| GripperDon |
| I thought you would like that stuff from MY TIME. GRIP :2: |
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| hfelknor |
Young whippersnappers have no respect.
They think their stuff is the final answer.
Someday people won't believe how slow jaak's stuff was.........how primitive........
Homer |
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| jaak |
You guys are funny.... You think I didn't use that stuff as well? I've been doing this longer than I'd like to admit to!
I used to have an audio sine wave generator from Hewlett Packard that was made when the company was about 8 years old. I still kick myself for giving that away!!!
Interesting facts... HP was already in business when Tektronix started up. HP's first products were audio, so not bleeding edge, but still very good.
Rohde and Schwarz was building RF products before HP even existed. It's truly the pioneer of the large Test and Measurement companies and while every one normally thinks HP for RF products in North America, they've never been as advanced as R&S. The last ten years, R&S sold through Tektronix, which brought more of their product here. It also forced HP to update their spectrum analysers, vector network analysers, get out of the EMI compliance business, build better, er, attempt better cell phone testors, the list goes on...
If you're using a GSM phone (and many of the others), it's very likely it was calibrated on an R&S CMU200. Agilent (the spin off of HP for test and measurement) hates the CMU200, 'cause it's so much better. Customer's call the Agilent 8960, the 89 drifty, as a result!
Good thing it's not T&M equipment that wins wars or we'd all be speaking German.:p |
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| GripperDon |
nein speckin de Deutsch. GRIP :D
Wars are won by the WINNERS!!!!! |
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| GripperDon |
Hewlett-Packard's chairman and chief executive, Carly Fiorina, has been ousted from the company following disagreements with the company's board over strategy.
Mr Robert Wayman, HP's chief financial officer, has been named CEO on a temporary basis. The company said a search for a new CEO was underway.
'While I regret the board and I have differences about how to execute HP's strategy, I respect their decision,' Ms Fiorina said a statement.
Ms Patricia Dunn, vice chairman of Barclays Global Investors and a member of HP's board since 1998, was named non-executive chairman of the board.
Ms Fiorina, 49, has headed HP for the last six years and is one of the highest profile female chief executives in the world. Fiorina came under criticism among investors for pushing through HP's merger with Compaq Computer in 2002. Critics, including family members of HP founders William Hewlett and David Packard, argued that the merger diluted the value of HP's profitable printer and imaging business.
Shares in HP were up 8.24% on the Dow Jones in Wall Street the afternoom. That says it all 8+% in one day. The wicked witch is dead, Long live Dorthy and Toto!
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| jaak |
She's actually referred to as "The Borg Queen". Goes back to when Lew Platt was called "LewPlattus of Borg" echoing the Locutus of Borg from the Star Trek Next Gen series...
Compaq. We are the Borg (HP). We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
It's no coincidence that the laptops HP employees use, connect to "Docking Stations". Today Laptops, tomorrow, implants....
If you look at the current logo long enough, you'll realise, it doesn't say "Invent" under it, it actually says "Invade".
HP
Invade |
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| mgthe3 |
In my past....
HP tried to make an inroad to the mainframe business with the VAX platform....us mainframe guys were worried for a while.....then began to snicker when Hitachi Data Systems started putting out their stuff and VAX began a slow plunge off the cliff.
HP should have stuck to printing and imaging, their printers for the network group environment have to be the best for the buck.
Oh, if ya wanna be sure to be scanned for a while, go to www.pantex.com
LOL
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| jaak |
Apollo, resistance is futile, you will be assimilated.
Remember them? |
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