[time-nuts] TAPR TIC Upgrade?

Bruce Griffiths bruce.griffiths at xtra.co.nz
Thu Aug 15 02:20:17 UTC 2019


Probably only worth the effort if one were considering a higher resolution device intended to surpass that of the venerable HP5370A/B or equivalent.
Doable with off the TDC shelf parts but is there any demand?

Bruce
> On 15 August 2019 at 11:18 John Ackermann N8UR <jra at febo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> In theory, making a new TICC that ran on an RPi could provide
> significantly more measurements per second, and more convenient I/O, but
> wouldn't affect the quality of the results.
> 
> I've thought a bit about an RPi-based TICC, but it's a significant
> redesign effort for limited gains.
> 
> John
> ----
> 
> On 8/14/19 3:18 PM, Forrest Christian (List Account) wrote:
> > The TICC uses an Arduino mega clone, not a Raspberry Pi.
> > 
> > My understanding is that most of the magic happens on the shield board not
> > in the processor - the processor is just there to capture the data from the
> > shield and format and report it via the serial port.
> > 
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 12:10 PM Perry Sandeen via time-nuts <
> > time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Yo Bubba Dudes!,
> >> I've just purchased a TAPR TIC module.  Now the new Raspberry Pi Model B
> >> has just been released.
> >> So my question is would there be any worthwhile advantage to replacing the
> >> TAPR unit with the new Model 4B?
> >> Regards,
> >> Perrier
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