IP-Grant valued at over $1Million - to the Electrical Engineering/Computer science Department of your University. 一百萬美元的智慧財產權送給貴校EECS系--- US Universities have not responded, apparently their only interest is donation of grant-money from industry. – (This offer is hereby retracted) ----- Chinese translation by Dr.Ting Chen Hanson
This is not your customary Industry Grant, where the University is being paid to create a technical solution which then belongs to the Industry. What I am offering you here is the Intellectual Property (IP) itself for which a patent and 5 engineering man-years were needed to complete the design. All basic problems have been solved, except for those falling under Murphy's Law. A condition of my Grant is that the benefits must first go to all engineering students Worldwide (2.5 Million). However, credits (Prestige and profits) will go to your University. Read "Does the Fire Burn and the Wonder still Exist?" 這個計劃不是一般的工業資助項目，一個公司資助大學幫助它解決它自已的技術問題。我的計劃是智慧財產權本身，它需要申請一個專利和五個工程師工作一年可以完成。所有的基本問題都已解決，只有枝節的工程細節需要完成。我唯一的要求是這項成品要用合理的低價供應全世界的工程學生。所有的榮譽都由貴校接受。請參閱拙作Does the Fire Burn and the Wonder still Exist?
The IP is for the
"Most Important Tool for Electrical Engineering", the Flagship
of the T&M industry, the Gigahertz Bandwidth oscilloscope or DSO. The
industry sells these tools for $30,000 to $75,000 dollars, but this
design can, and should be, provided to engineering students for less than $300,
while still making a profit for your University, estimated at $20 Million
annually. My goal is to see these 1 and 6 Gigahertz bandwidth DSOs (With your University's-Name
on the enclosure) in the hands of the majority of engineering students
world-wide, the same way that nearly all students today are using a program
based on Berkeley's University SPICE. (Version 3A.7)
此項智慧財產權是關於超高速的數位儲存示波器，這是電機工程師最重要的工貝也是儀器公司的主力產品。目前這些產品的價格在$30000-$75000美元，但是本計劃的產品，可以用$300美元的低價供應工程學生，並可為貴校帶來每年約二千萬美元的收益。我的目標是全世界每一位工程學生手上都有一台1-6 GHZ的數位示波器，就好像所有的電機工程師都使用柏克萊加大發展的SPICE程式分析電路一樣
Bill Schweber, Executive Editor of EDN magazine
writes: "The number of graduating engineering students has been
dropping steadily over the past decade," And I believe it's high time
to "stoke the fire" to let there be "Wonder" again. ---
Hopefully, Engineering departments will create better motivations for
engineering students in the future. ----------------------------------- EDN期刊編者Bill Schweber曾說：”近十年來工學院的學生畢業人數逐年都在下降。”我認為這正是時候挑動星火，傳繼科技奇蹟的機曾，工程科系也應該努力創造鼓勵末來工程師研究創新的意願
Why did a University and not the EDA
industry develop SPICE? Why can this revolutionary DSO not be designed and
marketed by the T&M industry? I have no explanation for the SPICE question,
but the DSO question has a definite answer, which is based on the research and
discoveries of Harvard Professor Clayton M. Christensen. (See his book The Innovator's Dilemma).
為什麼SPICE是加州大學發展出來的，而不是由EDA的公司發展出來？為什麼這種革命性的示波器不是由儀器公司發展出來？我不知道SPICE的問題在那兒，但是我知道超高速的數位儲存示波器的問題。哈佛大學的Clayton M. Christensen教授在他的The Innovator's Dilemma一書中講得十分清楚。
With this DSO we are dealing with a Disruptive
Technology as defined by Christensen, which can never be introduced
by the established industry. (Disruptive only for the industry, but an Enabling
Technology for our profession) Christensen writes: Never in history have
the leading companies in an industry led a disruptive revolution. They
typically have not just ignored the potential disruption, they have actively
worked to discredit and oppose them.
超高速的數位儲存示波器是一種Christensen教授所說的斷代技術Disruptive Technology，斷代技術是不可能在現存的公司內發展出來的。Christensen教授說：”歷史上我們從來沒有見到工業界的龍頭公司帶頭發展斷代技術。它們不但忽視斷代技術，它們更是積極地反對及抵制斷代技術”
My Web-site http://www.msmisp.com/FUTURETEST describes these new Software Defined Instruments
and has been on the Internet now for close to three years, but only two of the
established T&M companies have shown any interest. Both had the intention
to use my DSO design inside application specific Instruments selling for
$10,000 to $20,000. --- I turned them down, because I want to see it used as
general purpose DSO, specifically designed for University laboratories, and
selling for the very low prices that all PC peripherals are marketed today,
(four times component cost). If, at a later time, the DSO IP is being
transferred to a T&M Company for the general market, a low cost version for
students and schools should be sustained. T&M Companies are not working
with a markup above cost of 30%, but have a requirement of over 300%.
我的網站http://www.msmisp.com/FUTURETEST詳細說明了這些軟體儀器的原理和製造法，可是三年多來只有兩家儀器公司表示有興趣。這兩家公司都只願意將這種示波器的設計應用在特殊的儀器下，價位在$10000-$20000之間。我拒絕他們，因為我要製造通用型的示波器，特別是在大學實驗室使用價格在一般PC週邊裝置的範圍內，售價是零件價格四倍。假如這種設計以後轉讓給儀器公司，就必需製造一種為學校和學生用的廉價普及版。一般儀器公司的定價都以生產價加300%的利潤來估算的，不是生產價加30%。
Besides my naïve idea of benefiting the engineering students and our profession in general, what academic engineering concepts can be explored with these designs?
1.) Widening the concept of Software Defined Radio to a more general
principle of Software Defined Mixed-signal Systems, because this is
apparently the only way in which SoC for analog can become a reality. --- (See Advanced Mixed-signal,
and my own papers on this subject.)
2.) The above is a new concept of Fault Tolerant
design, which now also targets the tolerances of the manufacturing stage.
3.) Pushing the bandwidth of this new DSO concept beyond present instrument
limits of 50Gigahertz to 200Gigahertz or even higher. (Requires IndiumPhosphide
(InP) comparator chips, which are already being sampled. See performance)
4.) Defining a new language, or modifying existing hardware description
languages to optimize the design process for these new structures. (See Equivalency)
5.) Integrating the DSO software with SPICE and other EDA type programs.
(See my paper "Instruments for your Work-station in 2005", 7of 9)
除了幫助工程學生和一般工程師之外，超高速的數位儲存示波器的設計還可以在工程學術上發展以下屠各種新觀念及新技術：
1.) 擴展軟體收音機SoftwareDefinedRadio的觀念到更廣泛的軟體混合訊號系統DefinedMixedsignalSystems的觀念，這顯然是類比線路單晶系統唯一可行的方案。請參考AdvancedMixed-signal一文及拙作Futuretest
2.) 以上觀念也涉及容錯設計FaultTolerantdesign，它也可以用來發展在生產過程中容錯的機制
3.) -擴張示波器的頻率範圍到50-200 GHZ或更高。這就需要高速的磷化銦比較器IndiumPhosphide(InP) comparatorchips，這些晶片已進入生產。請參考performance一文。
4.) 發展一種新的電腦語言，或是修改現有的語言來最有效地設計這些新的線路結構。請參考Equivalency一文
5.) 綜合示波器軟體，SPICE程式及其他EDA的工貝程式。請參考拙作”2005年的電腦化儀器”，7of 9
Regards, Harry Winter -------- (hwinter@msmisp.com or Phone: (740) 587 0226)
祝你健康
溫海利敬上
--------又及：如有意見，敬請不吝賜教：電子郵件hwinter@msmisp.com 或電話(740) 587 0226)
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Comparison of highest performance industry
offer and this new PC-Card DSO design.
比較這個PC卡示波器和其他儀器公司最高級示波器的性能
leading edge January 20, 2000 EDN, Dan
Strassberg [excerpts only]
50-GHz-bandwidth, sequential-sampling DSOs test
10-Gbps network components
50-GHz寬頻順序取樣示波器測試10-Gpps網路元件
原載EDN期刊一月20日，作者 Dan Strassberg
Of ALL DIGITAL
SCOPES, only sequential equivalent-time-sampling instruments offer bandwidths
as high as 50 GHz. This capability makes such scopes the instruments of choice
in applications of rapidly growing importance---electro-optics, for example.
在各種數位示波器中，只有順序取樣sequential equivalent-time-sampling示波器可以達到50GHz的高速。這個特性使得此型示波器成為測試最近迅速成長的光電元件最受歡迎的儀器。
Yet, because these scopes
work only with repetitive waveforms and take just one sample during each
input-signal iteration, they lack the quick response of lower
bandwidth, real-time -and random-sampling instruments. This characteristic
limits Sequential-sampling scopes largely to applications that need
extraordinary bandwidth. -------- To address the requirements of
engineers, who develop components for networks that transmit data at speeds as
high as10Gbps, Tektronix has introduced a family of sequential-sampling scopes.
(TDS8000 and CDS8000) --- Each scope accommodates four sampling modules. Five
modules provide a variety of electrical interfaces. Three more optical-sampling
modules support the OC-12/STM4, OC-48/STM16, OC-192/STM64, Gigabit Ethernet,
and Fibre Channel standards. ... The TDS-8000 cost $19,000. Prices for
electrical-sampling modules (15GHz) begin at $10,500 each; prices for
optical-sampling modules begin at $17,000 each. -- www.tektronix.com.
但是這種示波器只能單在波形重覆的情形下，因為它掃描一次只能最樣一次，所以不能像低頻實時隨機取樣示波器一般地對迅速改變的信號及時反應。這個限制使得順序取樣示波器只能用在實在需要超高頻的應用中—如同輸送10 Gbps資料網路系統中的元件。Tektronix最近推出TDS8000
和CDS8000系列的順序取樣示波器。每台示波器都附有4組取樣模組，5組不同的電訊界面，以及3組光學取樣模組支援OC-12/STM4, OC-48/STM16, OC-192/STM64, Gigabit
Ethernet,及 Fibre Channel 等標準。TDS-8000定價$19,000，取樣模組 (15GHz)
起價是每組$10,500；光學取樣模起價是每組$17,000。詳情請電Tektronix Inc, 1-800-426-2200或上網查詢
A NEW T&M FLAGSHIP PERSONAL INSTRUMENTS, H.Winter
新設計個人測試儀器，設計者溫海利
At
a $30,000 starting price, the above might be the "bleeding
edge" instead. But here is a PC-Card DSO, which has very similar
performance and can be marketed for $400 in a 6-GHz, and for less than $800 in
a 50 GHz version. And while this Card-Scope uses the same sequential-sampling
concept, a new DIS method (Dual Incremental Sampling) takes many samples
per repetition just as random-sampling does, but it is even faster responding. This
characteristic makes this Card DSO a general-purpose scope for all frequency
ranges. Another advantage of the DIS method is that a digitizing
resolution of up to 12 bits is obtained directly, not by averaging many traces,
as it is done with conventional scopes. (See Specification)
上述的示波器起價是$30000美元，是所謂的”流血邊緣bleeding edge”的昂貴儀器。我設計的PC卡數位示波器有相同的功能，速度高達6 GHz，而價格只有$400美元。50 GHz的版本也只有$800美元。這種PC卡示波器使用相同的順序取樣的方法，可是利用雙重增值取樣DIS (Dual
Incremental Sampling)的技術可以像隨機取樣的方法一樣在同一迴路中採取許多樣品，而且速度很快。這個特性使得PC卡示波器成為 在所有頻率範圍中者可以使用的通用型示波器。它的數位取樣精度是12位元，不必像常用示波器需要萬許多樣品來計算平均值。請參考Specification一文。
The present 6-GHz design uses
only readily available (commodity) ICs, but with the new IndiumPhosphide (InP)
chips bandwidth can go beyond 50-GHz, while the power consumption still remains
within the constrains of the PCMCIA format. The cost of only one of the
Tektronix TDS8000 would buy 30 of the PC-Card DSOs. But of course, there needs
to be a standard PC, which will also perform the many post-acquisition task
listed as features for the TDS8000. - There is only one "small"
problem, no T&M company will market it!
6 GHz版中只使用普通的矽晶片，但是要到達50
GHz時就必需使用銦化磷晶片，同時此PC卡示波器的耗電量不超過PCMCIA卡片的規定。買一台Tektronix TDS8000的價錢可以買30台PC卡示波器。當然，你還需要一台PC，但是PC可以做許多TDS8000有的後續隕料分析的工作。唯一的問題是沒有大儀器公司願意投資解決這個”小問題”。
(Close to actual size近於實際大小)
And here is a
picture of the same DSO circuits with USB 1.1 Interface (As provided in most
digital cameras) in a ready-made inexpensive enclosure. The two alkaline
batteries are only needed for applications with the new USB OTG enabled PDAs,
for all other applications the 900 mW of power is provided by the USB link.
上面是數位示波器加上USB1.1界面和便宜外殼的照片。USB界面廣用於數位照相機中。左邊顯示的兩個鹼性電池只在PDA使用新規格的USB OTG時方才需要，其他時候所要的900 mW能源都可以從USB接頭取得。
Please see also the copy of an article by Jack Gifford, CEO, President of Maxim Inc.: (The print-out is well readable.) -------------------------------------------請參考下列 Maxim 公司總裁Jack Gifford有關”美國的優勢在於他的工程技術”的論文U.S. Leadership Relies on Engineering http://www.msmisp.com/futuretest/maxim.htm But also the latest talk by Barret, CEO of Intel: http://www.msmisp.com/futuretest/Barret-Intel.htm And the latest development on ; http://www.msmisp.com/futuretest/US-Leadership.htm
And the editorial “A Gift of Hobby Eletronics Inspires Future Engineers” by Mark Davis
探針連線使用Thin-coax導線，直接連在PC卡上。探針連線的SMB接頭可以接到探針頭，或者插入測試線路 
The End of U.S. World Leadership in Technology.
See http://www.msmisp.com/futuretest/US-Leadership.htm
Because Universities are not likely to respond to this proposal; which would “motivate” many more of our “young” to become creative engineers, the words by Jack Gifford, CEO Maxim Inc, and Craig Barrett, CEO Intel.htm will become our reality. It was Prof. Ben G. Streetman, dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and member of the National Academy of Engineering, who summed it up into just one sentence. He said: (“Every year, we’re educating about half the number of engineers that the country needs and importing the rest.)
------ That’s a prescription for going out of business as a country.” ------
As one famous American once said: For evil to persist [and bad times to come]: It only takes a few good men to do nothing!
At this time I have found only two other (retired) engineers to help me develop at least a 200 MHz version of this DSO concept. To make the product very affordable to students it will be based on the $79 GameBoy by Nintendo, which has a high quality color display. The objective is to keep the total cost of the complete package to less than $200 and to develop and distribute (market) this DSO to students only with a “non-Profit Organization” named EE-Logos.org.
Here are pictures to give an idea of the physical size involved. (The background is an 8”x10” schematic of the DSO.) And only the three miniature probes are missing.
AND SEE THIS PICTURE PLEASE --- The Land that lost its Oportunity