High-performance 12-bit digitiser can reach sampling speeds of up to 400MS/s, and claims the deepest on-board memory available on the market today: up to 4gigabytes (2gigasamples)
Gage Applied Technologies has introduced a new high-performance 12-bit digitiser.
The new CompuScope 12400 (CS12400) can reach sampling speeds of up to 400MS/s, and claims the deepest on-board memory available on the market today: up to 4gigabytes (2gigasamples).
The fast sampling rate enables the capture of high-speed signals with ultra-high timing precision, while the high resolution allows signals with very high dynamic range to be captured.
This combination of speed and resolution are said to be ideal for implementation in a wide range of applications such as radar/lidar system design and test, spectroscopy, communications, ultrasonic non-destructive testing, manufacturing test, as well as signal intelligence and high-performance imaging.
Gage's new finite impulse response (FIR) filtering and signal-averaging field-programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies are also optionally available for the new CS12400 digitiser.
The FIR filtering technology allows users to filter digitised data in real time with a completely flexible and user-customisable FIR filter.
Filtering of analogue voltage signals is a powerful method for removing unwanted signal features (like noise) and emphasising particular features of interest in a signal.
Data is transparently filtered, with no processing required by the host PC's CPU.
Signal averaging is a powerful method of improving the fidelity of noisy repetitive signals.
Using signal averaging, small signals can be extracted from a background of high-amplitude noise, which may even be larger than the actual signal itself.
The CS12400 will take advantage of these new on-board application-specific FPGA technologies offered by GaGe, as well as any new ones that will soon become available.
As with other GaGe products, the CS12400 is available with up to 2x10^9 samples of on-board acquisition memory.
Deep acquisition memory is useful for applications that require sampling of a long record at a high sampling rate.
Examples include radar signal analysis, disk drive testing and signal intelligence.
Multiple cards can be configured in master/slave configurations to create a high channel-count system without compromising the acquisition memory depth or sampling rate.
All members of Gage's CompuScope family, including the new CS12400, are fully compatible with GageScope oscilloscope software, which allows users to acquire and analyse signals without writing a single line of programming code.
GaGe also offers software development kits (SDKs) in C/C++, Matlab and Labview for users that want to create their own custom applications.
Gage Applied Technologies products are marketed exclusively in the UK by TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments).
