Affordable scope family now includes four-channel and 40-MHz models
LeCroy Corp has announced the expansion of its affordable WaveAce oscilloscope line to include four-channel models with bandwidths of 60, 100, 200, and 300 MHz and is adding a two-channel, 40-MHz-bandwidth model. The four-channel models provide waveform memory of 10,000 points/channel or 20,000 points/channel when you interleave pairs of channels. They acquire as many as 2G samples/sec/channel with interleaving. The 40-MHz model acquires 4000 points/channel and as many as 500M samples/sec/channel. All models offer color displays, extensive measurement capabilities, and advanced triggerin...>>>

The metadata problem: Characterizing digital video for storage, future access, and sale
The Oxford English Dictionary—more generally known as the OED—has a nearly useless definition for metadata: it’s “data about data.” Yet metadata is a critically important aspect of non-textual binary media files, particularly video says Dr. Scott Linfoot, a Principle Lecturer at De Montfort University in Leicester, UK and Projects Director at Fiteris, a software developer of tools for automated metadata insertion (AMI) into video. Consider these statistics from Linfoot’s presentation... >>>