Acquisition memory on board the ATS860 can optionally be converted to Dual Port Memory for applications in which acquisition cannot be stopped during data transfer to PC memory.  This dual port memory feature is not found on any other waveform digitizer available on the market.

ATS860 provides two simultaneous analog inputs that can each be sampled at rates up to 250 MS/s (one ADC per channel).  Each channel can have up to 256 Megabytes of on-board acquisition memory buffer.  The unit occupies only one half-length PCI slot.

"While there are many 250 MHz digitizers available on the market, almost all of them are too expensive and too bulky to be embedded into ultrasonic test equipment" stated Muneeb Khalid, President of AlazarTech.  "Our OEM customers challenged us to break the $2000 price barrier and we did it by utilizing novel design techniques and by building upon our existing unique technology".

ATS860 PCI digitizers use FPGA-based digital electronics for control and data processing.  AlazarTech's proprietary HyperDisP display technology allows the full 256 Megabyte 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 ATS860 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.