Spectrum Catalog 2024
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2024 Digitizers | Transient Recorders | Arbitrary Waveform Generators | Digital Waveform Acquisition Cards for PCI Express, PXI Express and LXI / Ethernet

free of charge, directly from our website, for the life of your product. The SDK is constantly evolving with enhancements and new working examples. If you feel a useful example may be missing, just let us know and we will see how we can help. New programming examples have also been included in our SCAPP package. SCAPP is the tool that allows the ultrafast data transfer directly between our cards and CUDA based GPU’s. There’s support for programming in both C and Python, along with examples that users can adapt and build on for Digital Down Conversion (DDC), FFT’s, Filtering and more. We...

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...

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...

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...

PCIe Platform PXIe 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. Option Synchronization Star-Hub Digital Option...

SBench 6 – Powerful Data Acquisition and Analysis Software SBench 6 – The digitizerNETBOX / generatorNETBOX can be used with Spectrum’s powerful software SBench 6 – a Professional license for the software is already installed in the box. SBench 6 supports all of the standard features of the instrument (see page 38 for more details). The digitizerNETBOX / generatorNETBOX is a remote solution that is connected by Ethernet using the LXI standard. The device can be used as bench-top instrument directly connected to a laptop or desktop PC or as 19" instrument connected to the company LAN and...

Digital Pulse Generator Available for our entire product line of 137 different Digitizers and 55 AWGs, the new DPG (Digital Pulse Generator) option adds four independent digital sources for generating pulses and pulse streams. This new capability is ideal for a wide variety of automated test and measurement applications. For example, the DPG option can produce the stimulus and trigger signals needed for machine or experiment control in systems deploying AI, robotics and mechatronics, for closed-loop testing, or even when assessing electronic circuits, components and sensors. With the DPG...

A digitizer is an electronic acquisition device that acquires analog waveforms, processes them through analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and sends the digitized sample to a buffer, which allows them to be saved before being processed by a computer. Today’s modular digitizers share a common historical architecture augmented by new high speed serial interface standards such a PCI Express (PCIe) and PXI Express (PXIe). Digitizers Memory Trig Transient Capture / Ring Buffer Mode The standard mode of the digitizer is the ring buffer mode. In this mode data is written into the buffer until a...

This piggy-back module synchronizes up to 8 cards 50 Ω front-end with 4 input ranges of the M5i.33xx-family. The piggy-back module uses Input Input Input Input Coupling Impedance Ranges Offset: matched and shielded coax cabling and is available Programmable input offset ±100 % 1 to 8 GSample memory per channel 4 multi-purpose I/O lines (synchronous digital inputs) NEW COOLING CONCEPT Independently from the PC, two powerful fans are transporting the heat of the card out of the PC housing through holes in the front plates. DC 50 Ω ±200 mV, ±500 mV, ±1 V, ±2.5 V ±100 % of input range,...

Two to 24 channel LXI/Ethernet versions 50 Ω high bandwidth front-end with 4 input ranges between ±200 mV and ±2.5 V Coupling Impedance Ranges (Standard) Ranges (Option) Offset: Low voltage option: ±40 mV to ±500 mV SNR (10 MHz signal) Programmable input offset ±200 % 1 to 4 GSample memory per channel Firmware options Block Average and Block Statistics This piggy-back module synchronizes up to 8 cards of the M4i.22xx-family. Top mount (TM) version with 2 slots width or Extension (EX) version with 1 slots width and RMS Noise Trigger Modes Acquisition Modes External Trigger Re-Arming Time...