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News Release from: Agilent Technologies Europe | Subject: U1071A Acqiris
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 21 February 2008
More options for high-speed PCI
digitiser
Designed in a short PCI-card format, the Acquiris 8bit digitiser can be used in all standard PCI bus slots, whether long or short.
Agilent Technologies has added two new options to its compact low-power (less than 15W) high-speed Acqiris 8bit PCI digitiser to give users more options depending on specific application and budget requirements The U1071A-002 model option is an entirely new version of the PCI digitiser product introduced in 2007
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Sep 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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At the slowest acquisition rate of 100sample/s, the card provides up to four weeks of continuous data acquisition.
Two additional memory options are available: 256Msample and 64Msample, which are compatible with the original 1GHz version and the new 500MHz version of the digitiser.
Specific uses of the Agilent U1071A include time-of-flight measurements for ranging and inspection applications such as lidar and ultrasound, as well as production testing of semiconductor components and systems including hard disk drive testing.
Designed in a short PCI-card format, the digitiser can be used in all standard PCI bus slots, whether long or short.
By combining data-convertor ASIC technology with a high level of component integration, the board, without memory options, consumes less than 15W.
The 1GHz version of the digitiser incorporates a unique option for simultaneous acquisition and readout (U1071A-SAR).
This digital data-handling mode significantly improves measurement throughput.
By separating the onboard memory into multiple buffers, data is acquired into one buffer while previously acquired data can be read out through the 32bit/66MHz PCI interface.
In applications where the total datarate of the acquisition is below the PCI data bandwidth, the U1071A with SAR mode can continuously acquire, missing zero events.
The Agilent U1071A was the first PCI product to feature the proprietary, high-bandwidth auto-synchronisation bus system that distributes both the clock and trigger signals among all the digitisers that participate in the system.
This enables the synchronisation of multiple digitisers when more than two data-acquisition channels are required.
Any digitiser channel within the system can then be used to accept a trigger for acquisition across the whole system.
Software drivers for Windows, Linux, LabView and VxWorks enable the U1071A to easily integrate into existing measurement systems as well as to be exchanged, replaced or upgraded to the latest high-speed Acqiris digitiser with minimal software adjustments.
In addition, application code examples are included for Matlab, C++, VisualBasic, LabView and LabWindows.
The Agilent U1071A Acqiris 8bit high-speed PCI digitiser is available now.
Pricing starts at US $5300.
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