[88Racing]

If only you guys could see the potential of hand held storage devices instead of seperate hardware components. Then you would have some money I. The bank.
I have been looking into the Rev Lite for the iPod touch. It's pretty cool data logging app. You can use it for a plain simple dynomometer or pay some $ and use it for datalogging.

[88Racing]

By hand helds I meant PDA's such as Palm and ipod touch.
Honda motorcycle division has been using the palm for years for scan tools. 2 years ago they came out with tuning software for them and even a live interface data logging program that can to some degree auto tune the motocycle after the map has been installed while on the dyno or driving it down the road.

[JackandJanet]

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Originally Posted by longshot270

Thats what I figured but business is business. How about shades of grey? I wonder that since you can change the contrast for the whole screen if you could change individual pixels. It would probably be pretty complicated to set up a program on the gryphon IF it's possible(since they might be 'multiplexed' as wikipedia puts it).

MULTIPLEXED? I thought a multiplex was a movie theater with many screens. I'm feeling .

In electronics, a multiplexer is a device that gets signal/data feeds from many different sources. It also gets an address feed that tells it which one of those signal/data feeds to pass along to the next device.

A very simple real world example would be a washing machine with only two washing temperature settings - hot and cold. If you push the "hot" address button, you get only the hot water input. Pushing the cold address button gives you the other input. The destination for each input is the same, the laundry tub. (I just can't get away from teaching, can I?)

I'm going to have to see what wikipedia is saying about this, because it doesn't sound like any multiplexer I've ever seen.

- Jack

[Longshot270]

Jack, I think both you and wikipedia are saying the same thing just in different ways.

Direct copy/paste of the paragraph from wikipedia

When a large number of pixels are needed in a display, it is not technically possible to drive each directly since then each pixel would require independent electrodes. Instead, the display is multiplexed. In a multiplexed display, electrodes on one side of the display are grouped and wired together (typically in columns), and each group gets its own voltage source. On the other side, the electrodes are also grouped (typically in rows), with each group getting a voltage sink. The groups are designed so each pixel has a unique, unshared combination of source and sink. The electronics, or the software driving the electronics then turns on sinks in sequence, and drives sources for the pixels of each sink.

I've found that wikipedia isn't usually wrong just not quite right most of the time. I never use them as my primary source for information, even in the few cases I do look something up there.

[Power Hungry]

Unfortunately, the current display uses a driver (in this case a hardware driver) to control the pixels only in an on/off fashion. There are other displays that can offer shading (16 levels, 256 levels, etc.) but this one doesn't and there's no way to make it happen from a software standpoint.

Color displays are significantly more complex, requiring more sophisticated software and hardware drivers to handle the layering and colors.

To answer your questions, yes we are going to be customizing the CS and CTS. No, we are not going to upgrade the older Evo/Gryphon boards simply because it's not possible.