how to output tm 08 on cro screen

bertus

Joined Apr 5, 2008
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Hello,

Do you mean an oscilloscope with cro?
Then you can use the XY mode.
You have an X position, Y position and Z for the intensity.

Greetings,
Bertus
 

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Varsha

Joined Nov 17, 2008
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yup.. a cro screen which we use in labs to observe signals frm electronic circuits...sit how to output this particular sequence?? TM 08..how can you do it..you have to interface microcontroller with dac??
 

bertus

Joined Apr 5, 2008
22,270
Hello,

You have to store the text in "dot matrix" inside the memory of the micro.
Then you have to make two loop-counters, one for X and one for Y position.
The values of the counters must be put on a port of the micro.
On each port of the micro there must be a DAC, the outputs from the DAC's go to the X and Y of the cro.
The text must be read in an registre line for line.
Each line must be shifted out at the same time of the counters.
This output is you Z signal, the brightnes control of the cro (most times a connection on the back of the cro).

Greetings,
Bertus

PS I am not yet working with microcontrollers.
I have made this kind of things 30 years ago with TTL counters and a ramchip.
 
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Papabravo

Joined Feb 24, 2006
21,159
I thought dots were used when the display has a raster scan. With an XY display like the DEC 338 you use vectors to make the characters. Vectors also work on engraving tables.
 
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