R&S Codenames - Page 1
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author: jjoonathan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 07:28:26 pm
content: I was poking around some of the XML files on my Rohde & Schwarz RTO oscilloscope and I found a list of frontend components / attributes with some interesting entries.Does anyone know what Kuma, Ooma, and Majuro are? Codenames for ASICs? German words that Google Translate doesn't want to tell me about?Code:<Hardware partNumber="1304.6160.24" sn="------" partChangeIndex="07.08" name="FE" partName="Frontend" externConnected="false"><ProgrammableParts><ProgrammablePart name="FEC" version="16.0.16.0"/></ProgrammableParts><Properties><Property name="Kuma version" value="3"/><Property name="Majuro version" value="2"/><Property name="USB vendor ID" value="1060"/><Property name="USB product ID" value="9495"/><Property name="USB device ID" value="2"/><Property name="ADC count" value="4"/><Property name="ADC 1 temp offset" value="-41"/><Property name="ADC 1 temp shutdown" value="120"/><Property name="ADC 1 temp warning" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 1 temp offset" value="-36"/><Property name="Buffer 1 temp shutdown" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 1 temp warning" value="100"/><Property name="Ooma 1 version" value="32"/><Property name="ADC 2 temp offset" value="-41"/><Property name="ADC 2 temp shutdown" value="120"/><Property name="ADC 2 temp warning" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 2 temp offset" value="-36"/><Property name="Buffer 2 temp shutdown" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 2 temp warning" value="100"/><Property name="Ooma 2 version" value="32"/><Property name="ADC 3 temp offset" value="-41"/><Property name="ADC 3 temp shutdown" value="120"/><Property name="ADC 3 temp warning" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 3 temp offset" value="-36"/><Property name="Buffer 3 temp shutdown" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 3 temp warning" value="100"/><Property name="Ooma 3 version" value="32"/><Property name="ADC 4 temp offset" value="-41"/><Property name="ADC 4 temp shutdown" value="120"/><Property name="ADC 4 temp warning" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 4 temp offset" value="-36"/><Property name="Buffer 4 temp shutdown" value="110"/><Property name="Buffer 4 temp warning" value="100"/><Property name="Ooma 4 version" value="32"/></Properties></Hardware>

author: nctnico
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 30, 2019, 07:59:56 pm
content: It could be ASIC or FPGA design names. The Commodore Amiga also had these funny names for the ASICs. Though that was in the era when computers came with complete schematics in the manual.

author: jjoonathan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 09, 2019, 08:17:24 pm
content: Yep, sure enough, OOMA was the ADC:Any leads on Kuma or Majuro?

author: TRN
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: February 08, 2021, 12:05:05 pm
content: Majuro2 is a Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA), and is used in the analog front-end of the RTM2000 oscilloscopes

author: ElectronMan
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: February 08, 2021, 04:00:43 pm
content: Quote from: jjoonathan on August 30, 2019, 07:28:26 pmFrom what I can tell by looking at firmware it looks like Majuro and Kuma are different "Front End Controllers." They could be sub-components of the controller too, but I see them being associated with the Front End Controlller.

author: jjoonathan
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: February 08, 2021, 05:28:38 pm
content: That could be. The RTO1024 VGA is on a hybrid labeled "ONOTOA v3.0" but that might refer to the hybrid itself.