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What Oscilloscope Do I Need for the Natami?
Chuck T
USA

Posts 674
16 Dec 2011 04:03


What Oscilloscope do I need for the Natami?

I've read that I need a bandwidth five times the CPU clock and ten times the CPU clock for pulses to look reasonably square.

Thomas Richter
Germany
(MX-Board Owner)
Posts 1425
16 Dec 2011 18:46


Chuck T wrote:

What Oscilloscope do I need for the Natami?
 
  I've read that I need a bandwidth five times the CPU clock and ten times the CPU clock for pulses to look reasonably square.

I hope you won't need any for a Natami. (-:

Bandwidth should at least twice the base frequency. I'm not quite clear whether the CPU is really clocked with the base frequency directly - the 68060 will not accept such high frequencies, but Thomas should know better.

To see a real square wave (and not just the sine, as you would get with sampling at the Nyquist rate), you would require theoretically infinite bandwidth, but I believe you're reasonably off with five to ten times the frequency.

But there are probably more important issues, namely a reliable trigger capability (since signals are all digital) and having a memory scope would be considerably helpful as signals are usually not periodic, but single time (or rather, have a too long period to be useful on a regular analog scope).

At least, this would be my shopping list, maybe others could add.

Needless to say, that's probably beyond my budget, but you asked...

So long,
Thomas



Marcel Verdaasdonk
Netherlands

Posts 3976
16 Dec 2011 19:17


I am not sure the important signals even leave the FPGA when the N68050 is done!

Christophe Prevotaux
Canada

Posts 47
16 Dec 2011 23:42


Maybe you can look at a RIGOL DS4054
this MSO is about 5000$ US. It is the cheapest around.
Still very good quality for the price. Pretty much incredible if you ask me.

Deep Sub Micron
Germany
(MX-Board Owner)
Posts 567
17 Dec 2011 09:41


Marcel Verdaasdonk wrote:

I am not sure the important signals even leave the FPGA when the N68050 is done!

For the signals inside the FPGA SignalTap is the most cost effective way.

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