[VIDEO] Fluke 9010A Troublshooter emulator in software

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[VIDEO] Fluke 9010A Troublshooter emulator in software

Renesas is having a contest that I won an entry into so it gave me an excuse to dust off the mothballs not only on my FlukeEm emulator:
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but start working on a USB adapter for the pods.
The thing literally came to life moments ago and I have to prepare a lengthy video for the contest entry but here's some eye candy for all you test equipment junkies.
:)

 
Awesome! If you ended up making those boards to interface the pods with USB, I bet you'd have some buyers. :)
 
Can you dumb this down a little and tell me exactly what I'm looking at here?
 
Go ahead and put me on the pre order list please.
 
Yeah I would be down for this program. If we can figure out a way to get rid of the POD's as well that would be amazing.:D

maan i really want a fluke - a modern replacement for the pods to interface to the actual hardware like the pod would be fantastic to!
as would editing programs with off the shelf tool like notepad, notepad++!
 
Forgive me for asking this. How can I run your 1.0.0 code on my computer?
 
I'd be interested in purchasing one of these too, though I think pod elimiation would be the holy grail since they're expensive and in some cases difficult to find.

Excellent work.

Karl.
 
I enjoyed your YouTube repair videos. Thanks for sharing those.

Regarding FlukeEm...

The screenshot on onecircuit.com shows v2.2. You've done a lot more work since "1.0.0" on SourceForge? Also, why the choice not to include a compiled Windows executable in the distribution package?

Very interesting looking emulator, although (no offense intended here) if one could connect a modern PC to a Z80/6502/68000 pinout (via a "pod" or similar connection)... the only advantage to having a Fluke 9010 Emulator is would be for those already familiar with the 9010 interface and operation. I'd think a much more powerful, informative, self-explanitory, and versatile interface could be created for a modern computer's native GUI.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to belittle your great work. There are, of course, other valuable benefits to emulating it; such as better documenting it for those repairing one in the future (similar to how the mame source helps arcade game diagnosis). Also appears to include the (E)PROM data from the Fluke unit, proving a source for those who may need it. I'm just sayin', if I could connect my laptop to a PCB to probe/test memory etc, I think I'd rather have a modern designed-for-PC interface rather than a 9010A.
 
If there's a pre-order list most definitely put me on it. I already have a 9010a and a bunch of pods but I can see cases where I might want to run 2 of them.

Plus it's really cool :)
 
I enjoyed your YouTube repair videos. Thanks for sharing those.

Regarding FlukeEm...

The screenshot on onecircuit.com shows v2.2. You've done a lot more work since "1.0.0" on SourceForge? Also, why the choice not to include a compiled Windows executable in the distribution package?

Very interesting looking emulator, although (no offense intended here) if one could connect a modern PC to a Z80/6502/68000 pinout (via a "pod" or similar connection)... the only advantage to having a Fluke 9010 Emulator is would be for those already familiar with the 9010 interface and operation. I'd think a much more powerful, informative, self-explanitory, and versatile interface could be created for a modern computer's native GUI.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to belittle your great work. There are, of course, other valuable benefits to emulating it; such as better documenting it for those repairing one in the future (similar to how the mame source helps arcade game diagnosis). Also appears to include the (E)PROM data from the Fluke unit, proving a source for those who may need it. I'm just sayin', if I could connect my laptop to a PCB to probe/test memory etc, I think I'd rather have a modern designed-for-PC interface rather than a 9010A.

Yeah there's several approaches one could take here. You could for example figure out the protocol between the Fluke and the POD and then just scrap the Fluke and develop a custom GUI to interface the POD directly. You could also go a step further and nix the Fluke + POD altogether and come up with a totally custom solution.

I think the reason I chose this route was:
1) Never emulated something before and thought it would be fun to try
2) Had a bunch of existing Fluke scripts (as do others) and hate having to have a separate system to develop,compile and send them to the fluke.
 
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