Waveform generators gain virtual front panel

The 60xx and 61xx series arbitrary waveform generators from fast PC instrumentation specialist Spectrum cover a wide variety of applications.

The 60xx and 61xx series arbitrary waveform generators from fast PC instrumentation specialist Spectrum cover a wide variety of applications.

Thanks to their universal easy-to-use driver interface the cards can be loaded with self programmed signals within a very short time of programming work.

Now, to offer even easier and faster access to the arbitrary waveform generators Spectrum is now delivering these cards with the SPEasyGenerator virtual function generator.

The software is also available for existing customers free of charge and can be downloaded directly from the Internet.

The user interface is designed with the look and feel of common stand-alone generators.

A simple mouse-click changes signal shape, frequency, offset, amplitude or filter settings.

SPEasyGenerator is based on LabWindows/CVI and is available as a complex LabWindows/CVI example with complete source code.

With this sources SPEasyGenerator is not only a good solution for a first hardware test or for laboratory use but it can also be the base for own programming work.

As the software is designed modular and contains the three parts user interface, hardware access and signal generation it's easy for the user to add own functionality or own signal shapes.

SPEasyGenerator supports all Spectrum 60xx and 61xx series arbitrary waveform generators.

The generators come with up to four channels and sampling rates of 20, 60 or 125Msample/s.

The 10 different versions can be ordered as PCI, CompactPCI 3U or 6U and PXI version.

The up to four channels can drive 3V levels into a 50ohm load with programmable offset and amplitude.

A huge onboard memory of up to 512Mbyte is available for all kinds of user programmed signal shapes.

And the cards have a wide range of options, such as the facility to add two synchronous digital outputs with each analogue channels without consuming additional memory.

Using the star-hub option designers can build up systems with up to 64 synchronous high-speed output channels.

This option can also be used in combination with one of the huge range of data acquisition cards from Spectrum to form a mixed-mode system.

This option natively supports the synchronisation of cards with different sampling rates.

For example, an MI.6022 waveform generator and an MI.4032 data acquisition card together form a four-channel 14bit 50Msample/s stimulus-response system or a four-channel 14bit 50Msample/s data recorder with playback functionality.

In addition to the SPEasyGenerator software the cards are delivered with drivers for Windows and Linux and examples for C/C++, Delphi and Visual Basic.

Software interfaces for third-part measurement products like Labview, VEE, DasyLab or Matlab are also available.

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