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2N3055:

--- Quote from: ebastler on April 05, 2024, 09:21:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: blurpy on April 05, 2024, 06:18:20 pm ---Not sure where it's still being used (other than GPIB), but some people find repairing, restoring or exploring old stuff fun, as well as building new stuff with older technology, like following Ben Eaters videos :)

It didn't cross my mind that the feature would be missing when buying the probes and licenses for using the digital channels.

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If you are into that generation of technology (I am too!), you are fully expected to know all ASCII hex codes by heart.  :P

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WORD!!  :-DD :-DD
Martin72:
This thread is about a demo board, so you use it for demonstration purposes, among other things.
People who are less involved in the ASCII table, i.e. anyone under 40  ;) , might be more likely to understand an ASCII decoding of the Batronix lettering or the joke/countries in parallel decoding.
Hence the request for a corresponding extension to the Siglent scopes, in the appropriate threads.
ebastler:

--- Quote from: Martin72 on April 05, 2024, 09:56:59 pm ---This thread is about a demo board, so you use it for demonstration purposes, among other things.
People who are less involved in the ASCII table, i.e. anyone under 40  ;) , might be more likely to understand an ASCII decoding of the Batronix lettering or the joke/countries in parallel decoding.
Hence the request for a corresponding extension to the Siglent scopes, in the appropriate threads.

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Frankly, that feels a bit backwards to me. Just because Batronix chose to implement a not-so-practical ASCII example for their "parallel data bus" demo, we are now asking Siglent to add a decoder option so we can run the demo nicely?

I would rather ask Batronix to revise the parallel transmission in their demo board. If they add an R/W and an Enable or Chip Select signal, it would be a more realistic demo of things going on on a data bus. I think it would be fine to sacrifice two of the data bits for that, leaving 5*data, CLK, R/W, /CS. Then mix two messages (bit patterns), one in Read access mode, one in Write access mode, interspersed with many other random bytes which have /CS not set.

Pulling out the relevant Read or Write data stream would be a nice challenge, and closer to a real-world data bus scenario. The 5 data bits could encode a running count, a Fibonacci sequence, Baudot letters, whatever. I don't expect Siglent to implement a Baudot display mode for the parallel decoder! ;)
blurpy:

--- Quote from: ebastler on April 06, 2024, 07:12:05 am ---we are now asking Siglent to add a decoder option so we can run the demo nicely?

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Not really though. Siglent has already implemented the decoder for parallel signals. The hard part is getting the binary value from the signal, which works today. After that, you decide how to display the result to the user. Display as the original binary value, or something more humanly readable, like hex or ascii.

And the functionality to convert binary to ascii is already implemented for serial signals. So all the pieces are there already, we are just asking Siglent to add the required glue and menu element so we can use it. A demo board like this is just the first place many will experience this lacking feature, before venturing into real projects.
Electro Fan:

--- Quote from: ebastler on April 05, 2024, 09:21:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: blurpy on April 05, 2024, 06:18:20 pm ---Not sure where it's still being used (other than GPIB), but some people find repairing, restoring or exploring old stuff fun, as well as building new stuff with older technology, like following Ben Eaters videos :)

It didn't cross my mind that the feature would be missing when buying the probes and licenses for using the digital channels.

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If you are into that generation of technology (I am too!), you are fully expected to know all ASCII hex codes by heart.  :P

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01010100  01101000  01111000

(MSB, no start or stop bits, no parity bit, any bps)
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