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News Release from: Strategic Test | Subject: UltraFast UF2030
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 February 2003
Speedy oscilloscope board has deep
buffers
The UltraFast UF2030 is a full-length PCI board that has two analogue input channels and a maximum sampling rate of 200Msample/s.
The UltraFast UF2030 is a full-length PCI board that has two analogue input channels and a maximum sampling rate of 200Msample/s To enable long signals to be captured even at maximum rates, the UF2030 is supplied with 16Msample of onboard memory that can be expanded to 512Msample without requiring additional PCI slots
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The UF.7021 is a full-length PCI board with 64 digital input or output channels that can simultaneously capture and replay signals at a maximum sample rate of 125Mbit/s.
A four-channel version is also available.
Each analogue input channel contains a separate 8bit A/D convertor to guarantee simultaneous sampling and has seven software selected input ranges from +/-200mV to +/-10V.
The input impedance can be set to 50ohm or 1Mohm.
Typical applications for the UF2030 include: disk drive testing, cellular communications, RF receivers, imaging, nondestructive testing, ultrasonic testing, laser Doppler Anemometry, High End video, CCD testing, vibration analysis, laser diode characterisation and impact testing.
The board includes connectors for external triggering and clock signals, these also permit up to 16 boards with 64 channels to be configured as a fully synchronised system.
Specifications include better than 45dB SNR, -58.5dB THD, -62.5dB SFDR and a bandwidth greater than 90MHz.
With its PCIbus master capabilities the UF2021 is able to transfer data at 100Mbyte/s from the onboard signal memory to the host PC RAM allowing tests to be performed up to 100 times faster than traditional GPIB oscilloscopes.
For applications that require a high-speed series of waveforms to be recorded, the multiple recording option will stack each captured waveform into memory before automatically re-arming the trigger.
Measurement repetition frequencies to 10kHz can be achieved.
Other applications require a technique to only record interesting segments of the measured signal so that the onboard memory can be conserved for useful data.
The Gated Sampling option allows an external TTL signal to control the sampling clock.
It is also possible to control external equipment from the UF2030.
The extra I/O option consists of a small daughterboard module that provides 24 digital I/O and four analogue output channels.
Software supplied with the UF2030 include drivers for Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, NT, 98 and Linux, together with the SBench 5.2 oscilloscope and signal analysis program.
As cost options, drivers for LabView, Matlab, DasyLab and VEE can be supplied.
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