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News Release from: Strategic Test | Subject: Oscilloscope and AWG
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 28 May 2007
Oscilloscope and AWG to control external
equipment
Strategic Test has announced the BaseXIO option which allows their oscilloscope and AWG cards to control external equipment, and option adds 8 asynchronous TTL channels.
Strategic Test has announced the BaseXIO option for the company's series of UltraFast oscilloscope and Arbitrary Wafeform Generator (AWG) cards The low-cost option adds eight asynchronous TTL channels to the PCI card
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 1 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Strategic Test has introduced a dual time base option for its range of UltraFast Oscilloscope/Digitizer PCI cards which allows sample rates to be changed from slow to fast following a trigger event.
While an additional PC connector panel is provided, OEM's that integrate the UltraFast card within a larger system can route the digital cables internally for maximum convenience.
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 Time Stamp 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.
A training presentation of the UF2 BaseXIO option is available on-line.
The price of the BaseXIO option is $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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