Patents Represented by Attorney Boulden C. Griffith
  • Patent number: 5122996
    Abstract: A method and apparatus performs time-interval to voltage conversion immediately and continuously allowing timing variations to be viewed and correlated with other voltage signals displayed on an oscilloscope. A calibration output assists in calibrating the vertical gain and offset of the oscilloscope. An automatic setup software routine finds suitable resolution and offset settings. The method includes the steps of selecting the type of time-interval to be measured, scaling the counting of a clock signal appropriately, offsetting the counting means as desired, counting the number of clock signals that occur during every selected time-interval, limiting the counted results to a preselected range, and converting the counted results to an analog voltage for display by an oscilloscope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1992
    Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Stanley K. Sasaki, Clark P. Foley, Michael A. Gauland