2025/2026 Digitizers | Transient Recorders | Arbitrary Waveform Generators | Digital Waveform Acquisition Cards for PCI Express, PXI Express and LXI / Ethernet

Dear Valued Customers and Partners, This year marks a significant milestone for us – 35 years of delivering high-performance electronic test and measurement solutions. What began as a local engineering support team has evolved into a global provider of innovative PC-based digitizer and generator products, designed to meet the most demanding analog and digital acquisition and generation applications. At Spectrum Instrumentation, we continue to embrace the rapid advancements in PC technology. Our solutions enable faster automated measurements by leveraging the latest CPUs, GPUs, software languages,...

We also offer a broad selection of options including digital I/O solutions, scalable streaming and multi-channel systems, with up to 128 channels, and dedicated software tools. Our SBench 6 Professional software provides a powerful graphical interface for control, visualization, analysis, and documentation. For high-speed data transfer directly to GPUs, our SCAPP package offers a streamlined, low-cost solution. We hope you find this catalogue both informative and inspiring. Whether you're a long-time partner or new to our products, we’re here to support your innovation and help you move forward....

2009 In the year 2009, the M3i series was introduced, starting with a 500 MS/s digitizer and followed by a digitizer card reaching 1 GS/s speed a year later. Meanwhile, the cards of the MI and M2i series were successfully sold around the world, being used in many companies, universities and for many OEM products. All three series formed a range of 320 different products! 2011 Spectrum delivered 140 digitizer cards to CERN. Since then, they are used to control the Beam Dumping System of the LHC, the largest particle accelerator in the world. 1996 Spectrum created its first 12 bit digitizer card...

Also, the larger version of the digitizerNETBOX was introduced: Containing up to 6 Spectrum cards, this stand-alone unit offers up to 48 synchronous channels in one 19" chassis with total remote control via Ethernet/LXI. 2017 Since the beginning, all Spectrum products are completely designed, built and tested in Germany showing an extremely low failure rate, so Spectrum increased the warranty for its products from 2 years to an industry-leading 5 years. Also, in this year, the "Spectrum Systementwicklung Microelectronic GmbH" changed its name to the internationally much more understandable "Spectrum...

Spectrum's Philosophy Designed to Last At Spectrum, we believe in long-term partnerships. If it is necessary to end a product line due to obsolete parts, we help with the transition to successor products. Furthermore, all products that have been released since 2000 are available for existing customers as long as we get the parts on the market. Support, updates, repairs and calibration is part of the long life cycle. Modularity Brings Flexibility Spectrum has a unique design philosophy. By using a modular design, platform boards are populated with different analog and digital daughter-boards as...

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Communications 14 and 16 Bit Resolution Time and Frequency Domain Analysis Advanced Display Modes Spectrum Instrumentation products are powerful and universal PC-based instruments that can be used in nearly any application that needs an interface between the electrical analog world and PC-based data analysis, calculation, display and storage. The scalability of the products covers anything from single channel OEM medical or ultrasound devices to multi-channel transmission and reception communication design. Intelligent designed synchronization structures allow to scale-up even to hundreds of...

LIDAR Advanced Acquisition and Readout Modes Block Averaging Low-Noise, High SNR Medical Science (OCT) High Sampling Rates and Resolution Fast Trigger and Read-Out Rates External Clock Nanotechnology Low-Noise High Dynamic Range Acquisition Precision Signal Generation High Gain Amplification Laser 6.4 GS/s Sampling Rates and High Bandwidth Fast Trigger and Read-Out Rates On-Board Block Statistics (Peak Detection) Quantum Science Versatile Signal Generation High Speed Data Streaming SCAPP GPU Support ATE – Automatic Test Equipment LXI and PXIe Modules Acquisition and Generation LabVIEW, MATLAB...

PCIe Platform PCI Express is the standard platform for all current PC-based systems and also for the future. Today’s state-of-the-art motherboards normally have a couple of PCI Express slots but only one or two PCI/PCI-X slots. The PCI Express bus is a point to point connection allowing full speed for every single slot. The Express bus is freely scaling and is available with 1 lane (x1), 4 lanes (x4), 8 lanes (x8) and 16 lanes (x16). For mechanical compatibility connectors may have more lanes than are connected to the motherboard. PCIe x16 Gen3 Interface Up to 13.9 GB/s streaming SMA connectors...

PXIe Platform Option Synchronization Star-Hub Digital Option The Star-Hub is an additional module allowing the phase stable synchronization of up to 16 boards (M2p series) or up to 8 boards (M5i series, M4i series). Independent of the number of boards there is no phase delay between all channels. The piggyback module distributes clock, trigger and control lines to all connected cards and can be ordered in two different mounting positions: as extension module, extending the carrier board without adding the need for an additional slot space; or as top mount module, keeping the board length the...