摘要:
The described test and measurement instrument includes a processor for generating a bitmap image (412) from an input test signal, a user interface for identifying a portion (420) of the bitmap image, and a second image generator structured to generate a second image (432) from the identified portion of the bitmap image. The second image may be a zoomed image from the original bitmap, and the images may be time-corrected before being displayed.
摘要:
The invention relates to a measuring device for suppressing an interfering signal, comprising a mixer (102), an analog-to-digital converter (104), a normalizing unit (105), and a replacing unit (107). The mixer (102) is designed to mix a first signal (111) with a first LO signal (117) and to mix a second signal (112) with a second LO signal (118). The analog-to-digital converter (104) is designed to digitize the first mixed signal (113) to form a first measurement signal (115) and to digitize the second mixed signal (114) to form a second measurement signal (116). The normalizing unit (105) is designed to shift the frequency range of at least the first measurement signal (115) and/or the second measurement signal (116) in such a way that the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal have a common center frequency. The replacing unit (107) is designed to combine the first measurement signal (115) and the second measurement signal (116) while removing interfering signal peak-value ranges that correspond to the interfering signal to form a total measurement signal (108).
摘要:
A "density trace" (730) is formed by measuring the density of each column of a frequency domain bitmap (720) above a user-specified "amplitude threshold" (725). The density of each column equals the sum of the densities of all of the pixels in the column that are above the amplitude threshold divided by the sum of the densities of all of the pixels in the column. A density trace (730) provides a convenient way to define and represent the occupancy for a large number of columns, and also allows density data to be quickly transmitted from one instrument or computer to another. In some embodiments, a density trace is incorporated into a trigger detector (700) of a test and measurement instrument and used to generate a trigger signal. The trigger detector compares the density trace (730) to a user-specified "density threshold" (735) and generates the trigger signal when the value of any point of the density trace violates the density threshold.
摘要:
A method of compressing values of a waveform of a monitored electrical power signal. The method includes of acquiring data representative of periods of the waveform (202), decomposing the waveform of the power signal into a plurality of components, over a plurality of periods of the waveform (sequence steps 204, 206, 208, 210, 212, 214) compressing the values of at least some of the components over a plurality of periods (216), individually. And storing these values and extents (218).
摘要:
Electric arc monitoring is effected by exploiting the discovery that electric arcs are fractal phenomena in that all essential information that signifies "arc" is contained in each fractal subset. These fractal subsets are logarithmically distributed over the arc spectrum. Monitoring of arcs is most advantageously effected on a fractal subset (16) of low logarithmic order where the amplitude is higher pursuant to the 1/f characteristic of electric arcs, where cross-induction among neighboring circuits is lower, and where travel between the arc (12) and the arc signature pickup (23) is longer than at the high frequencies customary for electric arc detection. Fractal subset transformation (17) reduces the danger of false alarms. Arc signature portions may be processed in out of phase paths (242, 342) or treated as modulated carriers (42) for monitoring. Aircraft may be equipped with spark monitoring systems (80) that record (82-86) occurence of dangerous sparking at different locations (92-96) aboard the aircraft (81).
摘要:
Electric arc monitoring is effected by exploiting the discovery that electric arcs are fractal phenomena in that all essential information that signifies 'arc' is contained in each fractal subset. These fractal subsets are logarithmically distributed over the arc spectrum. Monitoring of arcs is most advantageously effected on a fractal subset (16) of low logarithmic order where the amplitude is higher pursuant to the 1/f characteristic of electric arcs, where cross-induction among neighboring circuits is lower, and where travel between the arc (12) and the arc signature pickup (23) is longer than at the high frequencies customary for electric arc detection. Fractal subset transformation (17) reduces the danger of false alarms. Arc signature portions may be processed in out of phase paths (242, 342) or treated as modulated carriers (42) for monitoring. Aircraft may be equipped with spark monitoring systems (80) that record (82-86) occurence of dangerous sparking at different locations (92-96) aboard the aircraft (81).
摘要:
An input section (100) outputs a digital signal representing a characteristic value corresponding to a measurement range of an input signal. The digital signal is then stored in a memory (1). A display (2) displays the digital signal stored in the memory (1) as an image which is developed along one of the two-dimensional coordinates axes and represents the predetermined characteristic value. A zone setting section (6) outputs zone width data for setting, as a marker zone, a portion including a desired range of the one axis for the image displayed on the display (2). A zone display controller (5) causes the display (2) to display the marker zone, in accordance with the zone width data. A detector (3) reads out the digital signal within the desired range of the one axis, from the memory, in accordance with the zone width data, and detects the specific characteristic value in the readout digital signal. A display (4) controller causes a display (2) to display detected specific characteristic value data.