Anyone using a Welec W20xxA DSO?

No, but I completely lost you at the first sentence... The Welec has

16 ADCs to make 4 channels. They probably use the FPGA's internal PLL to make 4 phase shifted clocks (very common in an FPGA).

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I don't think there's a literal translation. Maybe "being spiteful". It's when something bad happens to another person or organization (whom or which you may not like in the first place) and then you are somewhat happy that it happened to him. Very common in "See, told ya so" situations ;-)

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They have 16 ADCs in there? Wow! Now I slowly begin to understand the circumstances behind the bankruptcy ;-)

Phase-shifted clocks via FPGA can be ok for a scope but not if things have to be super-precise. In my apps they usually have to so we auto-tune the clocks to within tens of picoseconds from each other which also mollifies aperture delay tolerances. Then, the offset needs to be auto-cal'd out and if you want to be extra good also any gain tolerances. Not doing this can screw up the FFT to some extent.

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dict.leo.org says: malicious joy.

Yes, that would be quite correct but it's a two-word description, not a noun.

BTW, in American the word "Schadenfreude" is used just like it is written in German. A lot of times in newspaper articles where it is expected that the average reader simply knows what it means.

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Indeed. For GHz sampling you can only tolerate a few ps jitter. I doubt the PLLs in the FPGAs are that good.

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Thats probably because English doesn't allow to stick two words together to form a new word.

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I was going to put a very clever paragraph into my newspost with counterexamples that everyone could download, but rather than overdo it I guess I'll let brevity trump cleverness.

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It does, but only after a few decades of pondering. Example: Data sheet became datasheet.

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YMMD

...often with hyphenated-words in the interim.

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But the "wordlist" doesn't list 'wordlist'! ;-)

Cheers! Rich

But my netlist always renders a complete list of nets :-)

And that word ain't even on there ...

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