To
provide a rough overview about the complexity of the projects we will
assign
a 1 to 10 open source transistors (the logo of
www.openhardware.de):
Measurement Projects are made from analog and digital stuff: so we will use nearly everything - in high quality if necessary -
One project may be a frequency counter
using a fpga for all the digital counting stuff, a high quality
external reference
(e.g. a 10Mhz oscillator in an temperature
controlled cabinet), a microcontroller e.g. from the 8051 family to
read the registers in the fpga,
doing some user interaction and
some controlling tasks. High speed comparators should be used as
frontend to get an adjustable triggerlevel.
Also other fine things
like prescalers can be imagined...
This is only an idea to give you a feeling about the kind of projects that are here in the future. (This Project would be rated with 8 transistors depending on the degree of sophistication.)