00:44 <d1b2> <j4cbo> hey @azonenberg , (not scopehal-related but) how usable/maintained is gp4par these days? I’ve got a project that is well in to “gosh I’d rather do this as RTL than a schematic” territory, and I was originally thinking ice40lp384 but the larger greenpaks should suffice

00:49 <azonenberg> j4cbo: It supports the 46620, 46621, and 46140 only. I haven't touched the code in probably three years

00:50 <azonenberg> It probably still works

00:51 <azonenberg> I was working on it right as the ice40 etc stuff started to become mainstream

00:52 <azonenberg> and everyone jumped ship for icestorm/trellis

00:52 <azonenberg> so there was no community to maintain it

00:52 <azonenberg> i also had to leave the project myself because of working on my house

00:52 <azonenberg> so the combination of the two resulted in it pretty much becoming abandonware

00:53 <azonenberg> i could get back to it if i had a good reason but it didn't seem worth it because glscopeclient is much more of a generally useful project

00:53 <azonenberg> so that's where i've been putting my time

00:54 <d1b2> <j4cbo> nod

00:55 <d1b2> <j4cbo> alright, I’ll keep plugging away at this schematic and see where I get

00:55 <d1b2> <j4cbo> makes sense, ice40 is a lot less niche

01:40 <azonenberg> hmmm, seems 6000 series offsets are derpy if you are using an attenuating probe

01:45 <azonenberg> So i'm not fully debugged there

02:14 <azonenberg> also seems like i have some waveforms building up in the queue somewhere if you do single trigger

02:14 <azonenberg> gotta figure out whats going on there

14:39 <bvernoux> some news for Rigol MSO5k Firmware upgrade

14:39 <bvernoux> R&D requested to extend the due day of the new firmware from Mid-May to the end of July to ensure a robust delivery.

14:39 <bvernoux> so we shall wait until end of July

14:40 <bvernoux> I hope that will be a good things with significant performance improvements for SCPI command/data exchanged with GbE ...

15:16 <noopwafel> this is a very Rigol Firmware story

15:16 <azonenberg> lol

15:17 <azonenberg> Meanwhile, I'm still trying to get MSO triggering on pico 6000 series to work

15:17 <azonenberg> i'm talking to Martyn from their tech support team

15:17 <azonenberg> it's not working in the picoscope 6 software either

15:17 <azonenberg> so i think it might be a driver bug or something

15:17 <azonenberg> mso channels display waveforms just fine

15:17 <azonenberg> As long as i trigger on an analog channel

15:20 <bvernoux> azonenberg, ha interesting even with Pico 6 GUI it does not work ?

15:20 <bvernoux> I do not remember if I have tested that on my Pico3000 ...

15:20 <bvernoux> IIRC yes but long time ago with a basic trigger

15:23 <azonenberg> Correct, it doesnt work on the gui either

15:30 <bvernoux> it is crazy to find that only now

15:30 <bvernoux> as the Pico6000 are available since lot of time

15:30 <bvernoux> and such feature seems to have never worked or maybe it is a regression ?

15:40 <azonenberg> Don't know yet. They're looking into it

15:51 <bvernoux> yes interesting

18:18 <azonenberg> If anybody's interested in one of my old scopes, https://www.ebay.com/itm/224457161683?hash=item3442b07bd3:g:yIcAAOSwBztgmU-x

18:18 <azonenberg> I traded this in to lecroy a while ago and it looks like they just listed it for sale

19:22 <xzcvczx> #define a while ago?

19:32 <azonenberg> xzcvczx: around when i got the SDA

19:32 <azonenberg> february or so

19:33 <azonenberg> guess it took them a little while to get around to listing it

19:38 <xzcvczx> oh wow that was a fair bit of time

19:38 <xzcvczx> wonder if they just have a number being traded recently or maybe just reduced staff

19:41 <azonenberg> reduced staff for sure

19:41 <azonenberg> They laid off several folks early on during covid

19:41 <azonenberg> i knew one of them

19:42 <azonenberg> the folks who are left in service are focusing on meeting needs of customer repairs etc

19:42 <azonenberg> refurbs take second priority and are squeezed in as time permits

19:43 <azonenberg> Also a lot of people are working remote

19:44 <xzcvczx> yeah i was also meaning that in reduced staff

19:44 <xzcvczx> as rather annoying to ship 20k scopes all around the city i imagine

19:44 <xzcvczx> $20k

19:45 <azonenberg> yeah all of their repair work is done out of their one facility in chestnut ridge

21:04 <azonenberg> o_O the AD9166 looks like a really fun chip to build some instrumentation around

21:05 <azonenberg> JESD204B -> single ended 50 ohm RF output, fully integrated vector signal generator

21:05 <azonenberg> up to 9 GHz bandwidth

21:05 <azonenberg> with around 2 GHz of instantaneous complex bandwidth

22:58 <azonenberg> Just ordered a prototype of a 3D printed hinge/variable spacing assembly that I'm interested in using for the AKL-AD3 active differential probe

22:59 <azonenberg> No components, just an experimental mechanical device

22:59 <azonenberg> should have it some time next week

23:01 <azonenberg> I'll probably make some adjustments and do a few iterations before i try printing something that can actually take a PCB