Spectrum introduces high-precision digitisers

The complete series consists of six different versions ranging from 100MS/s to 400MS/s with one or two synchronous channels available as PCI/PCI-X and PCI Express version.

The M3i.41xx series is suitable for a large range of application areas, especially high-energy physics, research and development, radar, spectroscopy and laser applications.

The highly configurable A/D amplifier stage consists of a 50 ohm terminated path with a bandwidth of 200MHz and a second, high impedance path with a bandwidth >100MHz.

Each channel has a programmable AC/DC coupling and a selectable low pass filter to optimise noise figures.

The card comes as a standard with 128 MSample and can be equipped with up to 2 GSample of on-board memory to cope with the large amounts of data.

Using the full memory option it is possible to acquire more than five seconds of data with 400MS/s.

The M3i.41xx is delivered with Windows 2000/XP/XP64/Vista/Vista64 and Linux 32/64 bit drivers, a set of programming examples and a basic version of the new SBench 6 software that has been optimised for handling GBytes of acquired data.

The driver supports all M3i cards, as well as all M2i cards allowing to easy upgrade hardware for existing applications.

A set of standard programming examples is provided to illustrate the boards main signal capture functions.

Extensive support includes Visual C++, Borland C++, Gnu C++, Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, J# and Delphi code.