18 Jan
2007
18 Jan
'07
9:41 p.m.
Patrick Finnegan wrote:
It would be more likely that you would
need to go the other
direction. If newer test equipment is using optical technology, you
would need to have a device that probes electronically and then
translates the signals into optical ones for the new test equipment.
Like one of those high-tech LEDs (or maybe a laser diode). :)
I have a feeling that getting a circuit like that calibrated properly
would be a bit of a bitch. 8-)
Peace... Sridhar
If we somehow
develop technology that uses light instead of
electrons to run computing I would think the tools of the new
generation will not be able to be used on the older obsolete tech.
Why
couldn't you then use some sort of photosensor to turn the
light pulses into an electronic signal?