Turn Your Pocket PC into a Test Instrument
-- Test & Measurement World, 12/15/2005 8:47:00 AM
Virtins Technology, which publishes software that uses a PC sound card as the heart of several software instruments, has released a similar program for the Pocket PC. Virtins Pocket Instrument uses the sound chip in a Pocket PC to turn the handheld computer into an oscilloscope, a spectrum analyzer, or a signal generator.
The oscilloscope has a selectable sampling frequency of up to 96 kHz, a sampling bit resolution of 8 or 16 bits, and one or two channels.All specs depend on the capabilities of the Pocket PC's sound device.
The spectrum analyzer lets you view amplitude spectrum and phase spectrum. The signal generator supports multitone generation where you can combine up to 32 tones in each channel. It also supports arbitrary waveform generation through a user-defined waveform library.
Prices: Pocket Instrument software, including all three modules--$49.95. Oscilloscope module--$24.95. Signal generator module--$24.95. Spectrum analyzer module (including oscilloscope module)--$39.95.
