New flagship fashions by Spectrum Instrumentation mix 10 GS/s sampling, 12-bit decision, 4.7 GHz bandwidth and 12.8 GB/s knowledge streaming
Spectrum Instrumentation has prolonged the M5i flagship collection of high-speed PCIe Digitizers, including two new fashions with ultrawide bandwidths that go as much as 4.7 GHz for -3 dB attenuation and even 5 GHz for -5 dB attenuation. The fashions M5i.3360 and M5i.3367 present one and two channels respectively. Every card is able to sampling at charges as much as 10 GS/s, with 12-bit vertical decision, particularly designed to ship essentially the most correct acquisition and evaluation of alerts within the GHz vary. The excessive bandwidth, mixed with quick sampling, permits alerts to be analysed for frequency content material anyplace from DC to the Nyquist restrict (half the pattern fee, or as much as 5 GHz), making them ultimate for working with extraordinarily quick alerts in laser techniques, semiconductor testing, spectroscopy, reflectometry and all kinds of RF purposes.
Oliver Rovini, Chief Technical Officer, mentioned “At 4.7 GHz, these new digitizer playing cards supply our highest bandwidth functionality thus far. Extra bandwidth means much less sign attenuation at greater frequencies. It additionally makes it attainable to detect and measure quicker pulses and sign edge speeds. As such, bandwidth is important for any engineer or scientist that desires to measure and characterize excessive frequency digital alerts. Our flagship digitizer line that’s primarily based on 12-bit ADC expertise, now has seven completely different fashions with sampling charges from 3.2 to 10 GS/s and bandwidths from 1 to 4.7 GHz. The vary lets our prospects select the efficiency degree that completely suits their particular necessities.”
On-board reminiscence and market-leading streaming pace
To deal with a range of enter alerts, the uncooked acquisition efficiency is complimented by versatile front-end circuitry with programmable full-scale ranges, from ±200 mV to ±2.5 V, and enter offset. Acquisitions may be saved in a beneficiant 4 GB (2 GSamples) of on-board reminiscence (16 GB or 8 GSamples optionally available) and transferred over the PCIe bus on the quickest speeds attainable. All playing cards of the M5i collection use 16-lane, Gen 3, PCIe expertise, which permits the acquired knowledge to be streamed at a staggering 12.8 GB/s. The on-board reminiscence can be utilized as a ring-buffer, working very similar to a traditional oscilloscope, or as a FIFO-buffer for steady knowledge streaming. The information can be despatched to PC reminiscence for storage or on to CPUs and CUDA-based GPUs for custom-made sign processing and evaluation.
Recording modes and set off modes
Acquisitions may be made in each single-shot or multiple-waveform recording modes. A number of-waveform recording permits the seize of quite a few occasions, even at very excessive set off charges. Typical edge triggering, which incorporates set off time stamping, is enhanced by quite a lot of subtle set off modes that assist with the seize of essentially the most elusive occasions. These embody Window, Re-Arm, Delay and Software program triggers, in addition to the flexibility to make use of the playing cards inputs (channel, set off and digital traces) to arrange particular set off circumstances primarily based on Boolean logic.
Drivers and software program
Excellent for automated testing techniques, the playing cards include all of the instruments mandatory to make use of them in a PC working both a Home windows or Linux working system. A software program improvement equipment (SDK) allows the playing cards to be programmed with in the present day’s hottest languages, resembling C, C++, C#, Delphi, VB.NET, J#, Python, Julia, Java, LabVIEW, and MATLAB. The SDK accommodates all of the required driver libraries in addition to quite a few programming examples. Alternatively, for customers who don’t need to write their very own code, the corporate affords SBench 6 Skilled. SBench 6 is a robust measurement GUI for full card management, with show, evaluation, storage, and documentation capabilities. It additionally contains processing strategies resembling FFT’s, for frequency area evaluation, and knowledge interpolation for improved timing measurements.
5 years guarantee
The brand new M5i.3360-x16 and M5i.3367-x16 playing cards carry a 5-year product guarantee, with free software program and firmware updates, in addition to buyer assist straight from the engineering group for the lifetime of the product. All of the digitizer playing cards can be found now with supply being 4-6 weeks after the receipt of an order.
