[time-nuts] Programming of 5370B

[Daun Yeagley]

Indeed the *major* problem is doing all that processing.  I'm sure there are
more bytes involved using ASCII as well (I don't recall the numbers for each
format), but that part is lost in the added processing time.

Daun

-----Original Message-----
From: time-nuts-bounces at febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com]On
Behalf Of Scott Newell
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 5:00 PM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Programming of 5370B


At 03:46 PM 5/31/2005 , David Kirkby wrote:
>
>What I did do however (for simplicity) was to read the data in as the
>standard ASCII, which is the default output data format of the HP. I did
>not use binary.

Doesn't the 5370B have to do more calculations to spit out ASCII data than
binary?  I think by going back to ASCII you've also moved some of the
numeric processing from your Sparc over to the little Moto in the 5370B

--
newell


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