Hi:From p. 7 of the datasheet of Agilent's new 81150 series pulse gens.:"You can change the timing parameters (delay, frequency, transitiontime, width, duty cycle) without dropouts or glitches. This patented,industry-leading feature means..."Here's a video:So this means all you waveform generator designers who ever made agenerator which didn't do what I show below, must pay Agilent for theirpatent on not having glitch bugs or risk getting sued.You see, when I bought a new Agilent 33522A function generator about 1.5years ago, I expected I could dial in new pulse widths like on my mucholder Tek AFG3022 without glitches like this:In the above, the 33522A was told via the front panel knob to incrementthe 10s place of the pulse width from 100ns to 110ns, while driving anLED with a bank of 4 parallel TC4422A MOSFET drivers with supply voltageof about 15-18V. This circuit can put up to 15A into typical 1mm*1mmLEDs, which don't complain as long as the pulse width is about

.Dude, inventions solve problems. The glitch bugs are problems that theAgilent invention solves. You are free to solve the glitch bug inwhatever alternative way occurs to you, that doesn't infringe on theAgilent (or any other) patent.

Since when is not having a bug patentable?

Jun 08, 2012 141 Replies

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Michael A. Terrell 13 years ago

Well, you must be a lot older than me! ;-)

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josephkk 13 years ago

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Shhhh!

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