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News Release from: TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments) | Subject: Gage CompuScope 14100
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 20 September 2001
PCI Bus oscilloscope card offers 14-bit
resolution
The Gage CompuScope 14100 single slot PCI bus card is capable of performing 14-bit analogue/digital conversion at rates of up to 100 MS/s in single-channel and 50 MS/s in dual-channel mode
The new unit, now available in the UK from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments, features an impressive 50MHz analogue bandwidth with over 70dB dynamic range and 63dB signal/noise ratio This combination of dynamic range and sampling speed makes the 14100 a world market leader
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 5 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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One billion samples of on-board memory allows very long data recording sessions for applications including DSL testing, wireless signals and antenna research.
This memory is much greater than that of a traditional DSO, where the deepest memories tend to be 64 million samples.
The CompuScope 14100 takes full advantage of the fast data throughput offered by the PCI bus.
Using bus mastering, data can be transferred from the on-board memory to the PC's memory at rates of up to 100 Mbyte/s.
This is typically 100 times faster than is possible using the ISA or VXI bus and more than 1000 times faster than GPIB rates.
This fast data throughput allows use in applications such as radar, ultrasonic or imaging applications that require trigger frequencies in excess of 10kHz.
Combined with the powerful GageScope for Windows software, the CompuScope 14100 enables users to operate the card as an oscilloscope without writing any programming code.
It allows users to view, manipulate, store, analyse and print data and to convert it to an ASCII format for use in spreadsheets and mathematical software packages.
With the software, the CompuScope 14100 can act as a digital oscilloscope, a wide dynamic range FFT analyser, a transient recorder with time and date-stamp capabilities or a waveform analyser.
The SuperRes feature of GageScope for Windows also allows the effective resolution of the CompuScope 14100 to be extended well beyond 24 bits at slower sample rates.
Software development kits are available for C/C++, MATLAB and LabVIEW, with support for Windows 95/98, Windows NT and Windows 2000.
A Linux driver and sample program are also available.
The CompuScope 14100 is priced from £5996 (plus VAT).
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