great sir rick...thanks for valuable informations throughout the whole week class lessons as well as to the digikey and design news for giving us to find a suitable ways for us to have a PDH Certificates in attending the continuing education for our career development and our job....
i will just take a rest for a moment then going back to the archived classes...good afternoon and happy weekend!
Thanks for your comments and questions. Keep them coming. Send your requests for the Notes to Rich Nass Rich.Nass@UBM.com I am logging out for today, but will be checking this chat Monday and after Monday. Look in this chat for answers to your questions that I cannot answer, which I have sent to vendors and other experts in this field.
Wild -- looking back through the chat stack, I found the comment I posted when I arrived (about fifteen-twenty minutes late?) DUPLICATED at about 40-45 minutes into the stack... with the later timestamp, too.
I don't think I've mentioned it this week -- you might be interested to look at LeapMotion's new device for gestural recognition -- I'm suspecting (on darned little evidence) that they MAY have found a way to commercialize a spin-off of lenseless imaging, such that they're able to extract position data on-the-fly (under 30mSec latency, with a precision of 0.01mm). If you know anyone into virtual reality and heads-up display goggles, those have pretty much ALWAYS suffered from head-movement latency interference with "staying IN the virtual space". And (as I've pointed out to a few people) a device designed to be stationary with high-precision motion and gestural detection can just as easily be used as a spatial "mouse" to detect motion and orientation of goggles. And pretty much anything else. Expect to be seeing more of their stuff.
Having been on both sides of the Purpose Build vs. Software Defined module debate, I appreciate your insight. I have passed on some suggestions to Rich that he may share with you.
Having been involved in SCPI defintion and HP-VEE (HP's defunct version of LabView) usage and defining purpose build instgruments for the cell phone manufacturers, I can appreciate some of the tradeoffs you were trying to make in your presentations.
Anyone finds this information about drivers (MS VB 6.0 etc...) useful? Is the goal of today's lecture to teach us how to write "good" drivers? or is it how to select instruments based on the driver availability? or... my concern is that the information being presented is only correct for a particular ADE (software package) version and that is not announced...
For those of you who requested and received the notes pages, my typo on Rich's Email name is also on the last page of the notes. However, if you received the notes, he must have received your Email. His correct Email is: Rich.Nass@UMB.com
"Not geared to any specific solution" basically means it SHOULD be generic enough to cover MOST solutions. Of course, if you're attempting to do functional verification of something reeeally-current-technology, you MUST double-check the RANGE of adjustable specs for signal sources of ANY kind. Variable (measureable) I/O current, voltages, pulse trains, etc... One source of technical testgear with all KINDS of useful peripherals, tools, etc, is Techtronics...
Thank you Rich, Rick, and all the participants. I will catch uyp with you in tywo week from Rio de Janeiro. I already started praying for a good Internet connection. :o)
To all. I responded to all requests for the week's presentations. If you requested and didn't receive, either I didn't get your email, or it was too big for your email system.
Items you may want to include in your webinar for the future. As part of the subject of software includes not just the ADE/IDE and drivers. It also includes some considerations that need to be considered when evaluating basic approaches to a software defined test (what hardware is being tested, what kind of signals/measurements are needed, what kind of timing is needed, what modularity is needed, what sequencing ordering requirements are needed, etc.)
Also it would be useful to discuss the trade offs between flexibility and critical timing requirements and how that plays into the high level "approach" to creating Software Driven Tests.
"Not geared to any specific solution" basically means it SHOULD be generic enough to cover MOST solutions. Of course, if you're attempting to do functional verification of something reeeally-current-technology, you MUST double-check the RANGE of adjustable specs for signal sources of ANY kind. Variable (measureable) I/O current, voltages, pulse trains, etc... One source of technical testgear with all KINDS of useful peripherals, tools, etc, is Techtronics...
Supposedly available for months -- if you haven't already, you should go back and run through any of the PAST weekly sessions you missed, particularly if the content/context is anything you might find useful (with hindsight, foresight, etc).
Is there any way to capture the audio content to my local system??
Granted, a little less "reading directly from the online tutorial" would be nice in the future -- kinda HATE to be able to "google" the last fifteen words spoken and FIND what is being talked about. Particularly if explicit credit isn't being given to those disparate sources...
To be quite honest, I'm actually kind of enthused about knowing that much of what we heard (and saw in slides) has a LARGE body of explication waiting back there -- means we can snapshot references and go back and "pick the brains" of a huge body of multi-institutional knowledge, drilling down for specific info that we would NEVER have had time for in one of these presentations. A nice, neat, totally wrapped up and all-inclusive 5x35minutes wouldn't even come CLOSE to the ultimate usefulness of what we got this week.
Students DO display a certain "entitlement", don't they? Whereas we professionals have a certain grasp of "this fits over HERE, that fits over THERE" and we don't have to be spoonfed in quite the same way. Again, I've said it before, there is excellent value in having an experienced aggregator who can knowledgeably pick-and-choose through the HUGE amount of online tutorials available.
Slides have NO details -- reviewing them later would tell me nothing. It would be nice if they could be used to review months down the road when we come upon situations where we need to actually use this information. The chances of needing EVERYTHING you teach TODAY is remote -- these classes are always for information to refer back to -- we just need to hear it once to know it exists, but need to be able to find it again later.
As I am sure you know, the best presentations are written by the presenter, who then does not read them. This is great for a smooth radio voice, but can include inaccuracies and discrepancies.
Thanks for taking the time to put these webinars on. I found it to be an excellent way to get a great general overview of what is going on in the world of test these days. My one improvement thought would be to consider an advanced seminar series. My thought on that would be 5 case studies, considering the webinar series spans 5 days. The case studies, amongst other things, would go into more details on applying some of the key items we have learnt this week. Does anyone else think something like this would be useful to them?
Rich - my main complaint is that there were a lot of key details that were not on the slides, mostly sub-points below the bullets on the slides. Too much to write down, and still follow what is being said next (more so if I am trying to make notes on a PDF of the slides).
@luizcosta - agree with you 100%. I was getting really frustrated at times... on the positive side - I did have a chance to learn something (negative experience is also experience). Looking forward for the next lecture set (coming up in a couple of weeks)
EdB-Vt: I think when I go through some of the vendor stuff, everything will be much clearer. Then I'll be able to ask salesmen intelligent questions...
I am with those who felt uneasy about the reading style of lecture. i keep thinking what my students would do in my term evaluation or even during the class.
on the bright side, i conforted my emotional reaction with: at least it is a time to listen to someone reading to me on a subject of interest. a sort of audible recording of the class. :o)
Supposedly available for months -- if you haven't already, you should go back and run through any of the PAST weekly sessions you missed, particularly if the content/context is anything you might find useful (with hindsight, foresight, etc).
Is there any way to capture the audio content to my local system??
Anyone finds this information about drivers (MS VB 6.0 etc...) useful? Is the goal of today's lecture to teach us how to write "good" drivers? or is it how to select instruments based on the driver availability? or... my concern is that the information being presented is only correct for a particular ADE (software package) version and that is not announced...
Rich - my main complaint is that there were a lot of key details that were not on the slides, mostly sub-points below the bullets on the slides. Too much to write down, and still follow what is being said next (more so if I am trying to make notes on a PDF of the slides).
"Not geared to any specific solution" basically means it SHOULD be generic enough to cover MOST solutions. Of course, if you're attempting to do functional verification of something reeeally-current-technology, you MUST double-check the RANGE of adjustable specs for signal sources of ANY kind. Variable (measureable) I/O current, voltages, pulse trains, etc... One source of technical testgear with all KINDS of useful peripherals, tools, etc, is Techtronics...
@caa028 The point I got is that considering the drivers available is part of hardware selection. Don't buy H/W if it doesn't have drivers for your environment of choice.
Another attribute of bad drivers is inefficiency. For example, the drivers that National Instuments provides are very simplistic and not optimized in any way. They're great when you are getting started but are unsuitable for production systems.
Anyone finds this information about drivers (MS VB 6.0 etc...) useful? Is the goal of today's lecture to teach us how to write "good" drivers? or is it how to select instruments based on the driver availability? or... my concern is that the information being presented is only correct for a particular ADE (software package) version and that is not announced...
as you already probably know, LinkedIn pswd have been hacked. too late to change it, but if you use it somewhere else, is not to late to change it there.
@rich Or if you company blocks the live audio streaming on the firewall, then use that as an excuse to work from home that day :) And it's a double win for it being a Friday
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