add-on CPU load meters

From: Bryan Pope <bpope_at_wordstock.com>
Date: Thu Dec 27 10:59:56 2001

>
> I found that. More than once. That's for an LED bargraph. I'm
> looking for a circuit that operates an old-fashioned galvanometer-
> style panel meter with a needle that swings from side-to-side.
>
> I can invent my own - a simple ladder D-to-A to produce a variable
> voltage out of the parallel port. I was hoping to save the math
> and use resistor values that someone else has calculated, but after
> two days of searching, I guess I _will_ have to go do it myself.
>

What about this: http://www.xess.com/ho03000.html

I can't look at it to verify right now (using Lynx _at_ work and no PDF
viewer) The one I think you would want is the VGA driver. I believe it
uses the TTL output of a FPGA to four resistors to output an analog signal.

Bryan
Received on Thu Dec 27 2001 - 10:59:56 GMT

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