14-Bit PCI
Digitizer Now Offers Deep 128 MegaSamples
Dual Port Acquisition Memory
Montreal, Canada (January 12, 2006) - AlazarTech,
a manufacturer of high
performance, low cost PC Based Instruments,
today announced the release of
ATS460-128M, a new, deep memory member
of its family of 14 bit, 125 MS/s PCI
waveform digitizers.Acquisition memory on
board the ATS460-128M can optionally be
converted to Dual Port Memory for
applications in which acquisition cannot be
stopped during data transfer to PC memory.
To the best of our knowledge, this dual port
memory feature is not found on any other
waveform digitizer available on the market.
ATS460-128M provides two simultaneous analog
inputs that can each be sampled at rates up to 125 MS/s
(one ADC per
channel). Each channel has its own 128
Megasamples of on-board acquisition memory
buffer. The unit occupies only one
half-length PCI slot and consumes less than
14 Watts of power - differentiating itself
from other high-speed digitizers on the
market.
"Customers involved in RF signal analysis
asked us for deep on-board acquisition
memory" stated Muneeb Khalid, President of
AlazarTech. "Our engineers responded
by developing the ATS460-128M that increases
the acquisition memory, but still keeps all
the integration-friendly features that
customers have come to expect from
AlazarTech".
ATS460-128M PCI digitizers use FPGA-based
digital electronics for control and data
processing. AlazarTech's proprietary
HyperDisP display technology allows
the full 128 Megasample long record to be
displayed on a computer screen in a matter
of seconds - an improvement of many orders
of magnitude compared to the competition.
The on-board FPGA can also be customized
for OEMs. Customization can include
simple control functions, such as extra
triggers or trigger enables, simple
mathematical functions, such as averaging,
and even complex DSP functions such as FIR
filters, demodulation and FFT.
OEMs can integrate the ATS460-128M PCI
digitizers into their own systems very
easily using Windows XP/2000/98SE compatible
ATS-SDK Software Development Kit. This
SDK includes sample programs written in
C/C++ and VisualBASIC. A high
performance LabVIEW VI, called ATS-VI, is
also available. A Linux driver, ATS-Linux,
is also available and supports kernel
version up to 2.6.
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