Indeed the *major* problem is doing all that processing. I'm sure there are more bytes involved using ASCII as well (I don't recall the numbers for each format), but that part is lost in the added processing time.
Daun -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Scott Newell Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:00 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Programming of 5370B At 03:46 PM 5/31/2005 , David Kirkby wrote: > >What I did do however (for simplicity) was to read the data in as the >standard ASCII, which is the default output data format of the HP. I did >not use binary. Doesn't the 5370B have to do more calculations to spit out ASCII data than binary? I think by going back to ASCII you've also moved some of the numeric processing from your Sparc over to the little Moto in the 5370B -- newell _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
