The Gould Ultima 500 from Gould Nicolet Technologies claims to combine the power of a digital storage oscilloscope and flexibility of a PC in one compact unit
Combining the acquisition power of a high performance 4-channel DSO with the flexibility and features of a PC, Ultima 500's unique capability simplifies data handling by moving effortlessly from capture to report in one compact unit.
Users will also find Ultima 500's portability especially useful for those applications where, up until now, a separate digital storage oscilloscope and a PC have typically been required.
A unique dual mode interface combines the look and feel of both a DSO and PC in a single integrated operating system.
All controls are equally accessible using traditional front panel controls and through mouse and keyboard.
No need for users to learn different operating methods.
Ease of use is further simplified using Ultima's on-board menu editor which enables simple user customisation of the user interface, limiting menu selections to the minimum required for any given application.
The Ultima series provides an unparalleled range of real-time analysis capabilities including FFT, differentiation, integration, graphing, histogram, phase correction and maths functions.
User defined real-time measurements can be developed using the on-board formula editor. The wide range of configurable measurements will track sections of waveforms and measure them in real-time.
Ease of operation is enhanced by dual level page selection enabling easy access to basic DSO functions in one page and providing setup and control of the more powerful analysis capabilities in the other page, assisted by preview windows.
Up to eight display windows can be viewed simultaneously enabling main and zoom traces or user defined math traces to be viewed independently and scaled to user defined units.
Ultima supports a sophisticated range of display capabilities including YT, XY, persistence, envelope and TruTrace capability which enables important signal aberrations to be identified and examined in detail.
Offering 500MHz bandwidth and up to 2GS/sec sample rate with 1Mbyte memory per channel, Ultima 500 is fully supported with an extensive package of trigger tools to qualify the incoming signal for amplitude, time, pulse, gating and TV.
A wide dynamic range in transient mode, with 12-bit resolution up to 2MS/sec, is also included.
Featuring a Pentium class computer, and large 10.4 inch SVGA (800 x 640) colour display, Ultima 500 easily transforms into a fully configurable Windows PC.
Direct data interchange is quickly made to Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel), as well as to other popular analysis and report generation packages.
Ultima 500 includes a large and flexible data store with an internal 8.4Gbyte hard disk and removable 1.44 or 120 Mbyte floppy alternatives.
The addition of internal PCI cards allows modem data transfer, GPIB control, GPS/IRIG timing or additional storage devices.
Familiar Windows operation offers real user benefits by providing the power of connectivity with high speed ethernet for networking, USB ports for mouse and keyboard, IrDA wireless connections to printers and other devices, standard serial and parallel ports and video monitor output.
All this flexibility plus the Ultima 500's programmers library and DataSentry for system customisation and automatic archival, fax or emailing makes the Ultima 500 the ultimate measurement workstation.
