On Friday 29 September 2006 12:33, Brian Padalino wrote: > I am really surprised on how you guys are so anti-spreadsheets. > > A lot of the RF engineers where I work like using them when designing > their receive and transmit chains for calculating tolerances and all > sorts of noise figures. > > One even modeled the front end amplifier gain stages for which DAC > values should be used at each input power over our 75 dB of gain so > when I wrote the FPGA module to actually do the AGC we could compare > my simulation results with their ideal gain for any given input.
This sort of thing makes perfect sense for a spreadsheet. Our RF engineer uses them for working out receiver gain distribution and other things. We use the Tcl/Tk program for doing stuff like calculating output power of a transmitter as you look at the scope on its sniff port.. much faster than loading a spreadsheet :) Languages like Tcl are *very* easy to program even for novice coders (like our RF engineer :) and are usually very portable as well. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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