On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 09:17:47PM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
> On 12/31/06, Tim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On 12/31/06, Tim Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Easy to program, easy to use. No GUI needed.
> >
> >Which, of course, doesn't mean someone couldn't write a GUI... just
> >that they'd be writing it to a semi-standardized terminal interface
> >instead of blasting raw serial data over the line.
>
> We could make a human-readable mode, and we could use VT100 codes in
> order to display it nicely. But I don't know how you'd do a good job
> of displaying readable waveforms in a terminal window.
It would have to be in a graphic format. There must be a zillion
formats that can describe a waveform compactly enough to be sent over a slow
serial line. PNG, PDF, EPS, SVG... Most of them are sent as files, so they'd
probably have to be transferred using HTTP, FTP, Kermit, or the like. That
gets us away from the link model of a text terminal, though.
Maybe the simplest way would be to just pack up the stored binary
data so it could be sent as ASCII characters, and let the display PC handle
the conversion to a displayable format. That takes a lot less logic on the
PCI analyzer board, and puts the complicated logic into software where it's
easier to implement.
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