Strategic Test Announces Digitizer Cards for PCI Express

By DE Editors

4-channel, 50 MSps 14-bit Waveform Digitizer PCI Express cards.

Strategic Test Corp. (Woburn, MA)  announced two new 50MSps 14-bit digitizer cards for PCI Express. The UF2e-4032 ($7399) has 4 analog inputs and the UF2e-4031 ($4899) has 2 input channels. Unique features include the options for dual-timebase sampling, synchronous digital inputs, asynchronous digital I/O and the possibility to synchronize hundreds of channels.

Key specifications include 128 mega samples memory — expandable to 2 giga samples; continuous streaming to host PC is greater than 120Msps; effective number of bits is greater than 11.4 bits; signal-to-Noise Ratio is greater than 70.5dB; total Harmonic Distortion is less than -73.0dB; the standard -3dB bandwidth is greater than 25MHz.

Each channel has its own 50MHz ADC for true simultaneous sampling, together with six voltage ranges from ±200mV to ±10V, a programmable offset of 200 percent and input impedances of 50 Ohm or 1 MOhm, allowing each channel to be individually configured for the signal source.

Like all UltraFast boards, the UF2e-403x scope cards can be customized with hardware options to best match the application. Drivers and programming examples for Microsoft Windows Vista, XP64, XP and Linux (RedHat, Fedora, SuSe, Sarge) are supplied with the card, as well as the SBench 5.3 oscilloscope program. SDK’s for MATLAB, LabVIEW, Agilent-VEE, DASYLab, and LabWindows/CVI are available as options.

For details, contact Strategic Test.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.