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News Release from: Acqiris USA
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 14 March 2005
Website reveals secrets of acquisition
ASICs
Specification information on the proprietary ASICs that power the latest generation of high-power data conversion instruments from Acqiris is now available for review on the company's website.
Acqiris has revealed that specification information on its proprietary ASICs, which help provide unmatched performance in the market, is now available for review on the company's website Klaas Vogel, Director of Sales for Acqiris USA, noted: "By providing information on our proprietary ASICs, Acqiris hopes to raise awareness of the importance of applying dedicated technologies in data conversion to minimise device size and power consumption, improve measurement fidelity, and increase data throughput"
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Aug 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Richard Soden, Acqiris' Product Manager, added: "This technology enables the assembly of more acquisition channels in a smaller space, providing reduced power consumption, generating less heat, and increasing reliability".
"In addition, acquired signals more accurately represent the original source signals, both in time and in amplitude, and data can be stored or processed as quickly as it is acquired".
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Acqiris' website now includes links to documentation on its proprietary technology and the individual chips used to optimise commercial ADC performance.
Specifications for the XLFidelity, JetSpeed and JetSpeed II ADC chipsets used to achieve the unprecedented 10bit 8Gsample/s sampling rates available in the latest generation of products, are now included on the site.
The Acqiris XLFidelity ADC chipset provides signal conditioning, amplification and interleaving functions essential to achieve high-speed data acquisition at gigasample-per-second rates.
The JetSpeed and JetSpeed II ADC chipsets not only provide vital clock and synchronisation signals, but also capture and memorise acquired data with maximum data throughput.
The new 10bit DC282 digitiser, Acqiris' latest CompactPCI digitiser, combines both the XLFidelity and JetSpeed II ADC chipsets with the Atmel TS83102G0B ADC to achieve an unprecedented 8Gsample/s sampling rate, with an analogue bandwidth of up to 3GHz.
Similarly, the DC271 CompactPCI digitiser, combining the XLFidelity and JetSpeed chipsets for 8bit sampling rates of up to 4Gsample/s with a 1GHz analogue bandwidth, while consuming only 40W.
Also available is information on individual ASIC devices, such as the MAC100, part of the JetSpeed chipset, that provides data throughput to external memory or customised logic, such as an FPGA.
The high-performance AC240 signal analyser, which employs the XLFidelity and JetSpeed ADC chipsets, including two MAC100 devices, offers two synchronous channels, each with a 1Gsample/s sampling rate.
For single-channel applications, these can be interleaved, doubling the maximum sampling rate up to 2Gsample/s, and improving overall timing resolution.
To perform onboard processing, the platform integrates the MAC100 devices with a Virtex II Pro 70 FPGA, capable of executing multiplications in less than 5ns, offering more than 74,000 logic cells, and nearly 7Mbit of on-chip processing memory.
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