User talk:Knarfs

Understandig analog signals in sigrok

There are tree main use cases for analog signals in sigrok:

• Fast sample data for scopes
• Input file formats: CSV, Feed Queue, Raw Analog, Saleae and WAV
• Slow sample data for measurement devices like multimeters, power supplies, sound level meters and so on.

A minor use case for analog signals is buffered measurement data for a small number of devices: One multimeter (mooshimeter-dmm), one thermometer (lascar-el-usb) and one (or two) sound level meters (cem-dt-885x and maybe kecheng-kc-330b).

Scopes

All sampling data for scopes is related to a sample rate, so the time stride between the individual sample points can be calculated.

Frames

Most scopes use SR_FRAME for transmitting their buffer (display buffer, sample buffer or similar). Some scopes don't use frames and transmitt a continious stream of sample data (fxla, hantek-xxxx) (?) will this really be continious

Input formats

This input formats use SR_CONF_SAMPLERATE via a SR_DF_META packet to anounce their sample rate: CSV, Raw Analog, Saleae and WAV. This input format doesn't anounce a sample rate: Feed Queue.

Frames

Non of the input formats is using frames.

Measurement devices

Measurement devices normaly (exceptions see below) don't have a sample rate, but even when it doesn't matter for the SR_ANALOG paket for live data. The individual drivers only receive one sample at a time and forward the samples via SR_ANALOG one by one. A sample rate must not be used, because the time stride between each sample can vary depending on various facts, e.g. the cennecting interface (USB, RS232, GPIB, etc.). (!) A timestamp is missing

Frames

When measurement devices transmit samples between a frame, this means that these sample points were received at the same time by the driver (reload pro).

Buffered data

This is a specific use case and rater unclear for me at the moment.

(?) Is the buffer send over and over when in acquisition mode (?) Is this data represened as a "normal" channel