On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 08:16 -0400, Timothy Miller wrote:

> I'm more concerned about noise and oscillations.  I think you're right
> that a simple reflection over less than a centimeter won't be a
> problem for us.  If we can tri-state the transmitter, and the receiver
> has sufficiently high impedence, I don't see why we couldn't connect
> them in pairs to let software select the direction.  Only the
> transmitter needs to be switched off, while we'll just ignore the
> receiver when we're transmitting.
> 
> How do you tri-state an analog signal without distorting it?  Just
> cutting power to the opamp probably isn't enough because of whatever
> will happen to the analog signal when it goes into the output of an
> opamp.

No this isn't a good idea (IMHO), what about a VCA ?

> 
> > > USB wouldn't have enough bandwidth for so many channels at once.
> > > Sure, there's lots of kinds of processing where the data would never
> > > leave the card, but in many cases, you're going to be shipping data
> > > back and forth with the application.  You need high bandwidth for
> > > that, and even PCI might not be quite fast enough if all channels are
> > > uncompressed.
> >
> >
> > ?
> >
> > I make 192kHz x 24bits to be 4608000 bits per second.  Sixty channels of
> > that is 276.48 Mb/s.  All of USB2, 1394 and gigabit ethernet are capable of
> > that.  The trick is probably getting the latency down.
> 
> I see your point.  We're going to have some sort of latency anyhow due
> to the external box, though.

60 channel at  > 100 Mb ...I don't think there are really problems for
latency. we are talking about time ~ 10^-5 s


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