I'm an electrical Engineer, with a specialty in designing radio's.
There are a couple of dozen equations that I use fairly frequently, and
I've programmed them into PEQEM rather than use Excel because of the
numeric solver and multiple equation solver that's built into the 50G.
Asciiflow (
http://www.asciiflow.com/ ) is a useful website/drawing tool
that will create ASCII drawing for documentation. While it's not as nice
looking at a GROB, it's a lot faster to put together, and text is all
that PEQEM supports.
Since I like typing on a large keyboard as well, I use a SD card to hold
text files, and translate them on the calculator from ASCII format to
directories and variables. I've also developed a couple of utility
programs to assist with this, and I'll document them here. I use
AsciiBin (
http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=3648) to go from a text
string on the stack to HP50g executable objects. I've renamed
ASCIIBIN.49 to UZ on my calculator, just to make things easier to type.
First, the PEQUM Equation Directory. This is a cut down version of the
one I use, as that one is ~ 20k of ASCII. I use the @ as a comment
delimiter, and try to format equations so that they are readable. This
text file resides in the root directory of the SD Card.
PEQUM is located here
http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=6306 , and is
a pretty handy equation library routine.
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%%HP: T(3)A(D)F(.);
@ Collected directory of equations for PEQUM.
@ PEQUM:
@ Equations are stored in a directory
@ {Equations}.
@ Constants can enter directly
@ variable$ is a text note Can attach to variables or directories
@ Can also support subdirectories.
@
http://www.asciiflow.com/ is a useful website for creating some
DIR
@ Start of Directory
@******************
RXPerformance$
"Directory of Receiver Performance
Equations"
RXPerformance
DIR
@+++++++++
IP3.eq$
"All powers in dBm
OIP3: Output IP3
Pout: Single Tone Output Power
Pspur: Spurious 3rd order Tone
From RFCafe web site. "
IP3.eq 'OIP3=3/2*Pout-1/2*Pspur'
@+++++++++
IIP3.eq 'IIP3=(2.*PD+PA+G-IMD3)/2.'
IIP3.eq$
"Input IP3
IIP3:Input IP3
PD: Input Power
PA:
G: Gain
IMD3: IMD3 Power"
@+++++++++
RXSense.eq 'RXSense=BBSNR+10.*LOG(1.38E-23*(T+273.15)*BW*1000.*(NFRx))'
RXSense.eq$
"Receiver Sensitivity
RXSense: Receiver Sensitivity,
BBSNR: Baseband SNR at Sensitivity
T: Temperature, C
BW: System BW
NFRx: Receiver Noise Figure"
@+++++++++
FriisV.eq 'Ftot=Fm+(Fmp1-1)/gm^2*(1/(Rim/(Romm1+Rim))^2)*(1/(Romm1/Rom))'
FriisV.eq$
"From Gu, Eq. 4.2.20
Fm: Noise Factor, Stage m
Fmp1: Noise Factor, Stage m+1
gm: Stage Voltage Gain
Rim: Input R Stage m
Romm1: Output R, Stage m-1
Rom: Output R, Stage m"
@+++++++++
IR.eq 'IR=10*LOG((1+2*(1+A)*COS(P)+(1+A)^2)/(1-(2*(1+A)*COS(P)+(1+A)^2)))'
IR.eq$
"IR: Image Reject
A: Amplitude Mismatch, Linear
P: Phase Mismatch"
@+++++++++
IRINP.eq 'IRINP=10*LOG(Fc2kT0*LN(f2/f1)+10^(NFth/10)*(f2-f1))+-170.97'
IRINP.eq$
"IRINP: Input Referred Noise Power
Fc2KTO: 1/f Noise Corner
f1: Start Frequency
f2: Stop Frequency
NFth: Stage noise Figure"
@+++++++++
LNAFOM.eq 'FOM=(ALOG(G/10)*ALOG(IIP3/10)*f)/((ALOG(NF/10)-1)*P)'
LNAFOM.eq$
"LNA FOM
FOM: FOM
G: Gain(dB)
IIP3: Input IP3(dB)
NF: Noise Figure(dB)
P: DC Power (mW)
f: Center Freq (GHz)
From Yao et al: Algorithmic Design of CMOS LNA's and Pa's for 60 Ghz Radio
"
@+++++++++
END
END
'EQUATION'
PGDIR
'EQUATION'
STO
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In practice, I recall this text file from the SD Card to the stack, and
then run UZ on it, to translate it to a directory. I can then "EVAL"
this, and the object on the stack will purge the old 'EQUATION'
directory and store the new one into the same one. Below is the program
that I use (from the home directory) to pull EQ02.txt and a Notes file.
The Notes File is a simple text file that I display using VV, which is
the text display part from (
http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=7213).
When I update either text file on the SD card, I run this utility, which
I've named rclSD, to pull from the SD card and install on the
calculator.
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Recall from the SD Card. Stored in my home directory.
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%%HP: T(3)A(D)F(.);
@ Utility to recall directory objects from the SD card
@ and put them into the {HOME DEV} sub directory. Each one of these
@ directory objects will purgedir of the previous version and then
@ store itself into that named variable.
\<<
PATH @ Put the Path on the Stack
{HOME} EVAL @ Move to Home
:3:"EQ02.txt" RCL UZ EVAL @ Get Equations directory
:3:"HP50GNotes.txt" RCL UZ EVAL @ Get Notes file
EVAL @ Now I'm done, EVAL the path to get back
SORTD
\>>
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Notes on the 50G
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%%HP: T(3)A(D)F(.);
\<<
\<< "Notes on HP50G Usage
LIBS - Returns list of installed
libaries to stack
50g display size 131x80
Updating the two equation libraries
that I have on the 50g:
PEQUM:
Equations are stored in a
directory {Equations}. RPL code
bkupeqn copies the equation to
the SD card, after running uz
on it. File name is eq.txt.
Once this is on a computer,
use EQ01.txt as the human
readable version to edit
and cleanup and then use
uz to recover the directory
object.
"
VV DROP \>>
'NOTES'
PURGE
'NOTES'
STO
\>>