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[starshipraider] azonenberg cd241a7 - Initial layout of AKL-AD4 is done
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[starshipraider] azonenberg 97cf88f - Small tweaks to AKL-AD4 from design review. Ready for fab.
<josuah>
azonenberg: given that I do not find what AKL-AV1 is, I assume it os something of your doing?
<monochroma>
everything AKL- is (Anti-Kernel Labs)
<josuah>
what a good idea!
<josuah>
putting a prefix to its names, so you can know right away where it is from
<josuah>
I am considering running a small board + screen rather than trying to compile everything for OpenBSD
<josuah>
not about scopehal itself, but rather the dependencies, built with Linux/Windows in mind
<josuah>
(small board like a RPi+Linux)
<josuah>
this ends-up much like what some vendors might be starting to do: integrate glscopeclient into their own infrastructure to provide harware with the whole scopehal+dependencies already packaged
<azonenberg>
josuah: yeah the part numbers for all of my probes are AKL-*
<azonenberg>
next letter is either A=active, P=passive
<azonenberg>
next letter is probe input stage architecture (T=transmission line, V=FET amplifier, R = R-C divider, D=differential)
<azonenberg>
then a sequentially assigned model number
<azonenberg>
(which reflects the order in which i started development, not necessarily order of completion/release)
<azonenberg>
So the AD4 is my fourth active differential probe design
<azonenberg>
and the AV1 is my first high impedance FET probe design
<josuah>
such structured references!
<azonenberg>
My larger scale projects usually use code names of some sort (which may or may not end up being kept as the final name when it's done)
<azonenberg>
for example, all of my oscilloscope hardware projects are named after famous EEs, especially those who made major contributions in the T&M field
<azonenberg>
which is mostly blocked because all of the FPGAs I might be using for it are on extremely long term backorder
<azonenberg>
but there is room to do more research on the frontend, which i might work on later this summer once i've knocked out some higher priority stuff
<josuah>
azonenberg: are any of these things documented somewhere per chance? to save you the time of explaining it over and again
<azonenberg>
although i will probably make ZENNECK its own repo once it comes a bit further on, to avoid crowding this one more
<azonenberg>
all of the probes currently live here
<josuah>
star ship raider! \o/
<azonenberg>
there's not much in the way of top level documentation
<azonenberg>
That one is actually not a random codename, it's a reference to the first project in the family, currently shelved
<azonenberg>
which was to be a 32 bit 500 Mbps capable digital I/O and logic analyzer / protocol analyzer type gizmo
<azonenberg>
the name was {mode of transportation}{thief} + future
<azonenberg>
as a pun on the infamously slow bus pirate
<josuah>
wwhich is the opposite (slow) of what you seem to be used to tinker with (fast!)
<azonenberg>
i may still get back to it, but it's on indefinite hold because i have several lifetimes of projects to work on and not enough time or minions
<azonenberg>
yeah. That project is now named CLARKE, after the first female EE professor in the USA
<josuah>
hehe, there are minions hired by other companies for working on hardware support for scope-hal iirc
<azonenberg>
And still exists but has not been actively worked on for a couple of years. At the time i didn't have a good scope or VNA, so it was hard to properly characterize the i/o buffers
<azonenberg>
Yes, i'm aware. I'm coordinating a bunch of that work but actively seeking more minions
<azonenberg>
So far the AKL-PT5 is the most complete probe project. I need to take a bunch of photos for the user manual, write more text content for the manual, and deal with supply chain issues (as always)
<azonenberg>
but i'm hoping to be ready for a full launch in the not too distant future
<josuah>
I'll be a bit too busy with a small projects of mine to get me on-rail (small, but still struggling to get there) to volunteer as a minion for now
<josuah>
not that I am not tempted, it is always nice to interact and discuss