Product category:
Board-Level Instruments
News Release from: Strategic Test | Subject: BaseXIO
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 29 May 2007
Option puts more digital lines on
instruments
Low-cost option for UltraFast oscilloscope and arbitrary wafeform generator cards adds eight asynchronous TTL channels to each PCI card.
BaseXIO is a new low-cost option for the UltraFast series of oscilloscope and arbitrary wafeform generator (AWG) cards that adds eight asynchronous TTL channels to each PCI card An additional PC connector panel is provided, but OEMs that integrate the UltraFast card within a larger system can route the digital cables internally for maximum convenience
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jul 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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The BaseXIO channels are completely independent of the high-speed function of the oscilloscope or AWG card.
They can be used to control external equipment, acquire test signals or read/write status information.
Some channels also offer special trigger and reference clock functions.
The eight BaseXIO connectors are mounted directly on the UF2 PCI carrier board and are equipped with MMCX connectors.
They are attached internally via coax cable and with right-angle MMCX connectors to a PCI connector plate with eight SMB connectors.
Each group of four channels can be set as an input or output.
Two of the channels can be used as additional TTL trigger inputs and combined in AND/OR functions with the card's standard external trigger input.
One application of this is to create a trigger gate to generate a trigger for video signals when the gate rises at the start of a frame.
If the timestamp function of the UF2 card is used, it is possible to acquire the BaseXIO channels synchronously at the trigger events together with the timestamps.
The synchronous acquisition with the timestamps is independent of the BaseXIO configuration.
The price of the BaseXIO option is US $590.
Strategic Test also offers a similar option called Extra I/O for its range of PXI and CompactPCI instrument cards.
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