Yea, I was thinking about that. Haven't determined what to do about it. TI makes some transceiver IC's but I would bet the freq range required may not be in demand enough to produce a chip.
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 10:04 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem will be replicating the network analyzer functions. You have > to sweep from 0 to 250 MHz, look for return loss and cross talk. So there > will have to be some RF involved. > > *From:* Lewis Bergman > *Sent:* Tuesday, December 26, 2017 8:08 PM > *To:* Animal Farm > *Subject:* [AFMUG] Cat5 certifier > > I now have a couple of projects for raspberry pi after my first time > success. > > I was wandering what else might be good. I thought about my 8000 dollar > fluke cable certifier and wonder how much of it's functionality could be > duplicated by a pair of raspberry pi. > > I found a project called netpi which is more of a network tester but had > some neat stuff. I think it would require a couple of ADC and RTC to do a > bunch of the tests that my fluke does off the top of my head just to start > with. I am not sure it is even possible, at least by me, but it seems like > a worthwhile endeavor if it is possible. I am hoping to get some feedback > from the genius pool who know a lot more than I about the low level phy > stuff. > > The goal would be to actually be able to certify a cable, not just pair > map and give distance to fault. I know some python but this would likely > require many tests to run in something like C for speed I would assume. > > Thoughts? >
