| ??? 03/04/06 19:24 Read: times |
#111264 - Oops! Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Hi Richard,
I could suggest any number of things, at this juncture, but, first of all, I'd suggest you tell me a little more about what your experience and ability regarding hardware construction is. Well, I do have experience in fabricating PCBs and circuit designing, so I have the self confidence of turning any idea into a working prototype. These are some of my circuits which are '51 related: (check page bottom), another I'd also want, in light of your ownership of a PC, but not of an oscilloscope, to know how adept you are at programming your PC. To be honest, my Win32 programming is this: Opening VB, and creating a form with a single button: nothing more. I was taught C in the DOS-Borland C++ compiler and I can program anything in C(and DOS, NTVDM), but not exposed to Win32 programming. A little information about your budget would be helpful, too. Budget is not a criteria now, but the time. It takes 24 hours for me to complete any PCB fabrication upto 6"x6", right from schematic, routing, etching, and finishing with soldering and testing. But the problem is, if I start designing any newer circuit, that itself becomes a mini-project, and consumes much time. So time is money now! $20-$40 is affordable. Your idea strikes me well, but once again the time factor is very critical. I am doing final year Bachelor's in Electronics and Communication, and I really do get what you intend. But your idea itself is like a project, and it is really a serious construction! If all this seems too complicated, it probably is, and you should take a different approach. I have extensive experience with this sort of thing, however, and can probably come up with additonal options for you. I have thought of an optional hardware: creating my own analyser. My idea is, having a 8 bit port of microcontroller(MCU) as 8 input pins, read the port, and send it thru the serial. Now the MCU must be fast enough, I do have ATmega8535, which runs at 8MHz @ 8MIPS, or a 'vanilla' 89s52 would be handy. The serial communication takes place only when anyone of the input bits change, so the MCU can concentrage more in port monitoring than in serial sending. The issue is I have to read these signals and convert them into waveform. I could do this easily in my DOS-C, but once again, Windows flavour is sought! To be honest, I wanted a 'quick fix-up' now (which is bad thinking), but I would surely prototype my above idea when time permits. I am sorry if there are any typos here, its 1 a.m. local time. Good night. Cheers, Vignesh |
