Signal acquisition system utilizing ultra-wide time range time base
First Claim
1. A display method for a signal acquisition system using an ultra-wide time range digitizer comprising the steps of:
- obtaining first data representative of a signal across a non-linear portion of an ultra-wide time range of said digitizer;
obtaining second data representative of said signal across a linear portion of the ultra-wide time range;
displaying said first data in a non-linearly scaled fashion in a first region of a display; and
displaying said second data in a linearly scaled fashion in a second region of the display,wherein said first and second regions are contiguously related within the display in accordance with the associated relative relationship between said linear and non-linear portions of the ultra-wide time range.
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Abstract
A signal acquisition system using an ultra-wide time range digitizer with variable time interval data sampling and data storage includes signal conditioning and sampling stages, a digitizing stage for generating digital representations of a signal, and a memory for storing the digital representations. Timing circuitry controls sampling and digitizing which may be varied so as to acquire signals on linear, logarithmic, or other time bases. Signal compression may be obtained by digitizing information only when a desired change rate is observed. A display allows acquired signals to be displayed in linear, logarithmic or other manner.
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1. A display method for a signal acquisition system using an ultra-wide time range digitizer comprising the steps of:
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obtaining first data representative of a signal across a non-linear portion of an ultra-wide time range of said digitizer; obtaining second data representative of said signal across a linear portion of the ultra-wide time range; displaying said first data in a non-linearly scaled fashion in a first region of a display; and displaying said second data in a linearly scaled fashion in a second region of the display, wherein said first and second regions are contiguously related within the display in accordance with the associated relative relationship between said linear and non-linear portions of the ultra-wide time range. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A display method for a signal acquisition system using an ultra-wide time range digitizer comprising the steps of:
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displaying a first set of data obtained by the digitizer in a first region; and displaying a second set of data obtained by the digitizer in a second region, wherein said first and second sets of data are portrayed in contiguous relationship to each other along a shared axis, but in accordance with different associated scalings along said shared axis, and wherein the scaling associated with said first set of data along said shared axis is linear, and the scaling associated with said second set of data along said shared axis is logarithmic. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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