Spectrum launches digital data acquisition cards

All cards consist of one 14 bit analogue channel and 16 digital channels together with programmable counters.

The products are based on the M2i.40xx series and offer six input ranges between +/-200mV and +/-10V for the analogue channel and sampling rates of 20 and 50MS/s with a resolution of 14 bit.

Data is written into the 128MS large onboard memory, which can be extended up to 2GS.

In addition to the analogue data, it is possible to acquire 16 digital channels.

Digital data can be acquired directly in parallel or using an encoder input.

Both modes can also be combined by software command.

With these features it is possible to acquire azimuth and elevation angle of a Radar antenna, together with the analogue data.

The angle information can be acquired continuously and synchronously with the analogue data or using a special marker mode as a single angle information together with each data segment.

Using these modes together with the fast continuous FIFO transfer, the programmable trigger delay and the short dead time between segments, the card may be adopted to nearly every possible application need.

The card is delivered with drivers for Windows 2000, XP and Vista as well as Linux Kernel 2.4 and 2.6.

On all operating systems the 32 and 64 bit versions are supported.