It’s been a while since I last wrote, but life is good. Work has been
going very well, today has been fun and now I get to watch the All
Blacks clobber Australia. Could it be better ?
One of my toys at work is a home-made arbitrary function
generator. It is a video card hooked up to some high-speed op-amps and
programmed to minimise the blank periods. So all you have to do to get
the waveform of your choice is write the waveform into memory and out
it comes. You can’t trigger it of course, but I’m still quite proud of
it. A single channel arbitrary function generator costs a hundred
times more and the video card comes with three channels.