National Instruments has expanded its digitiser product line with the introduction of three new digitisers/PC-based oscilloscopes. The 500 MHz NI PXI-5153 and NI PCI-5153 and the 1 GHz NI PCI-5154 modules round out the NI 515x series, following the introduction of the NI PXI-5154 in July last year. With the NI 515x series, engineers can take advantage of a complete line of high-speed digitisers – with 300 MHz, 500 MHz and 1 GHz bandwidths – for demanding automated test and streaming applications where high-bandwidth measurements are required.
All three new products feature up to 256 MB of onboard memory per channel, providing accurate measurements by sustaining up to 2 GSps realtime sampling rates over extended data capture windows. Engineers can use these digitisers to address a wide range of measurement needs in the consumer electronics, semiconductor, aerospace and defence, and life sciences industries.
NI 515x digitisers feature three characteristics that make them optimised for automated test – tight synchronisation between channels, ease of integration with other instrumentation and high data throughput. Using T-Clock technology, which synchronises multiple instruments, engineers can integrate NI 515x digitisers with a variety of NI hardware, including arbitrary waveform generators and digital waveform generators/analysers, to customise and build a complete, automated mixed-signal test system. Engineers also can synchronise multiple digitisers to build systems with up to 34 channels in a single PXI chassis, all simultaneously sampling at 1 GSps and synchronised to picosecond-level accuracy between modules.
The PXI platform, upon which NI high-speed digitisers are built, provides measurement throughput up to 10 times faster than alternative instrument architectures because of the high-bandwidth and low-latency PCI bus. The digitisers’ high bandwidth, fast data throughput and tight multimodule synchronisation are particularly beneficial for applications including mass spectrometry, radar, signal intelligence, non-destructive test and high-channel-count physics experimentation.
Engineers can combine the new digitisers with NI LabVIEW SignalExpress interactive measurement software to quickly acquire data, perform measurements and view and analyse data in Microsoft Excel or NI DIAdem test management software. Additionally, the new digitisers work with all National Instruments software including the NI LabVIEW graphical system design platform and the NI LabWindows/CVI ANSI C development environment as well as other development environments such as ANSI C, Microsoft C++ and Visual Basic.
For more information contact National Instruments, 0800 203 199, [email protected], www.ni.com/southafrica
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