[time-nuts] Unix software to generate nice looking *DEV plots

Tom Van Baak tvb at LeapSecond.com
Thu Mar 17 08:39:20 EDT 2016


Attila,

See adev4 (linear tau) and adev5 (logarithmic tau) in my www.leapsecond.com/tools/ directory. Windows .exe is there, as well as .c for unix.
I use these for all my command line or scripted ADEV work.
Results have been checked against NBS data sets, Stable32, Plotter, and Timelab.

The logarithmic version is especially nice for plotting as it allows the "many tau" method, where there is a fixed number of tau calculations per decade, instead of the usual 1-2-4-8 or 1-2-5 or 1-N (which takes forever) methods.

/tvb

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Attila Kinali" <attila at kinali.ch>
To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2016 3:29 AM
Subject: [time-nuts] Unix software to generate nice looking *DEV plots


> Moin,
> 
> I'm looking for some non-GUI software to generate the different *DEV
> plots we generally use to asses oscillators with. Timelab is nice,
> but if you are evaluating two dozen measurements using different
> parameters, it becomes very tedious to generate the plots. Not
> to talk about the problem that the plots are not really reproducable,
> which is a very important property, when publishing results.
> 
> I could for sure write myself wrappers around gnuplot/ploticus/mathplotlib/..
> to generate the *DEV plots, but I'm not keen on reinventing the wheel.
> 
> Thus I'd like to ask whether someone has any hints on what to use.
> 
> Attila Kinali
> 
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