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News Release from: Alazar Technologies | Subject: ATS460-128M
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 16 January 2006
PCI digitiser remembers to save energy
The ATS460-128M is a new deep-memory 14bit 125Msample/s PCI waveform digitiser.
The latest addition to the range of high-performance low-cost PC based instruments from AlazarTech is the ATS460-128M, a new deep-memory member of its family of 14bit 125Msample/s PCI waveform digitisers Acquisition memory onboard the ATS460-128M can optionally be converted to dual port memory for applications in which acquisition cannot be stopped during data transfer to PC memory
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ATS460 family of 14bit PCI waveform digitisers is capable of sampling two simultaneous analogue inputs at rates up to 125Msample/s on each channel.
To the best of our knowledge, this dual port memory feature is not found on any other waveform digitiser available on the market.
ATS460-128M provides two simultaneous analogue inputs that can each be sampled at rates up to 125Msample/s (one ADC per channel).
Each channel has its own 128Msample of onboard acquisition memory buffer.
The unit occupies only one half-length PCI slot and consumes less than 14W of power - differentiating itself from other high-speed digitisers on the market.
"Customers involved in RF signal analysis asked us for deep onboard acquisition memory", stated Muneeb Khalid, President of AlazarTech.
"Our engineers responded by developing the ATS460-128M that increases the acquisition memory, but still keeps all the integration-friendly features that customers have come to expect from AlazarTech".
ATS460-128M PCI digitisers use FPGA-based digital electronics for control and data processing.
AlazarTech's proprietary HyperDisP display technology allows the full 128Msample long record to be displayed on a computer screen in a matter of seconds - an improvement of many orders of magnitude compared with the competition.
The onboard FPGA can also be customised for OEMs.
Customisation can include simple control functions, such as extra triggers or trigger enables, simple mathematical functions, such as averaging, and even complex DSP functions such as FIR filters, demodulation and FFT.
OEMs can integrate the ATS460-128M PCI digitisers into their own systems very easily using the Windows XP/2000/98SE compatible ATS-SDK software development kit.
This SDK includes sample programs written in C/C++ and VisualBasic.
A high performance LabView VI, called ATS-VI, is also available.
A Linux driver, ATS-Linux, is also available and supports kernel version up to 2.6.
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