Hi Peter,
Welcome to the list!
Let me instantly diverge off-topic:
On 15 Mar 2005, at 08:55, Peter Washington wrote:
I think that with the particular mix of people we now seem to have looking at this problem we should have it licked pretty quickly.
On another subject entirely, (which should probably be handled further in some other forum), Ralph and I have been talking about home made Digital Storage Oscilloscopes recently, if either Matt or David would like to join forces with us maybe we could have a bash at actually making something.
Me me me! :-) I was looking at buying one recently... even ebay wasn't cheap :/ I would be interested in this. I'm also probably more interested in building a logic analyser, and it's something I was planning to try out on my Xilinx FPGA board. These devices in particular should be pretty good to trace to a certain depth since the larger ones have a pretty reasonable amount of RAM (or spare FFs).
One of the things I was thinking of doing with the E2.... was to use it as the front-end to a FPGA-based logic analyser backend. Screen size = pretty good.. and of course with a logic analyser the screen's mostly just a GUI so bus speed (16bit) shouldn't be too much of a bottleneck.
But yes I'm interested in your plans for a DSO (they may share a lot of common ground too).. anyone got a wiki to scribble ideas on?
[Maybe I should say my background is in CompEng, so my studies were in hardware/VLSI.. nothing remotely analogue though (don't say 'FET' :P ) so you guys sort that angle.. ;) I have some experience with using FPGAs though (ideal for complex ASIC-needing homebrew projects), if that's useful.]
Cheers,
Matt