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News Release from: TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments) | Subject: GaGe CompuScope 14100C
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 04 April 2003
CompactPCI digitiser offers 14-bit
resolution
The GaGe CompuScope 14100C from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments), is a 6U form factor CompactPCI digitiser card that can sample analogue signals at speeds of up to 100 MS/s (megasamples per second).
The GaGe CompuScope 14100C, now available exclusively in the UK from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments), is a 6U form factor CompactPCI digitiser card that can sample analogue signals at speeds of up to 100 MS/s (megasamples per second) with 14-bit resolution and store the data in the on-board memory The CompuScope 14100C uses two monolithic sub-ranging A/D convertors, each running at 50 MS/s, to provide a dual-channel simultaneous sampling rate of 50 MS/s
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 14 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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In the single-channel mode the two ADCs are clocked in a 'ping-pong' mode to achieve up to 100 MS/s sampling.
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The on-board auto-calibration circuitry allows the two channels to be matched in order to reduce the image signal.
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In order to isolate the high-frequency analogue circuitry from CompactPCI bus-related digital electronics, a two-board 'piggyback' configuration is used.
This scheme allows maximum separation of analogue and digital grounds, thereby providing high immunity to digital noise.
The CompuScope 14100C is available with a memory depth of one megasample (14-bit samples).
This memory can be used as a circular buffer for storage of pre- and post-trigger data.
In the single-channel mode, the maximum number of sample points is equal to the memory depth of the CompuScope 14100C model being used, whereas in the dual-channel mode the maximum number of sample points is half the memory depth.
The data stored in the CompuScope 14100C memory can be transferred to the system's RAM for post-processing, display or storage to hard disk without any interface bus.
The high-speed, 32 bit, bus-mastering interface to the CompactPCI bus allows the data from the on-board memory of the CompuScope 14100C to be transferred to system RAM or to any other CompactPCI destination at sustained rates of up to 80 Mbyte/s under single-tasking operating systems.
Under Windows, this rate depends on the architecture of the user application.
Under controlled conditions, it is still possible to achieve 80 Mbyte/s transfer speed to the system RAM.
The CompuScope 14100C is fully capable of becoming a CompactPCI bus master in order to transfer data at the maximum rate of 80 Mbyte/s.
A CompactPCI bus master is a card which can take control of the bus and transfer data to any CompactPCI target device such as system RAM or a SDP card without any involvement from the CPU.
The CompuScope 14100C features state-of-the-art analogue triggering.
An analogue comparator provides triggering from either one of the input channels, from an external signal or from software.
In addition to the trigger source, trigger level and slope are also selectable by software, making the trigger system similar to that of traditional oscilloscopes.
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