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Commits on Feb 19, 2020

  1. Fixed a few typos

    azonenberg committed Feb 19, 2020
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@@ -619,10 +619,10 @@ \subsection{Estimating Waveform Memory Usage}
sample. Thus, a 1M point analog waveform takes approximately 20 MB of RAM per channel, or 80 MB per capture on a
four-channel oscilloscope with all channels enabled.

On the larger side, A 10M point four channel capture would use 800 MB and a 64M point deep-memory capture would use 5
On the larger side, a 10M point four channel capture would use 800 MB and a 64M point deep-memory capture would use 5
GB. The default 100-waveform history setting is thus wildly inappropriate for such deep captures! A future software
release may support spilling waveform data to a temporary directory on disk, permitting effectively unlimited history
depth givens sufficient disk space.
depth given sufficient disk space.

Digital waveforms use one byte per sample for the actual measurement, so 17 MB per channel for a 1M point waveform.