Strategic Test Debuts UF2e-7005 125 MHz 1 to 16 channel Digital Bit Stream PCIe card

“While a number of high-speed digital input and output boards are available, these typically provide 16 or 32 fixed channels and as a consequence map the entire available card memory to these channels,” commented Bob Giblett, President of Strategic Test. “For applications that require recording or playback on fewer channels, this effectively wastes expensive card memory or requires more memory to be purchased in order to achieve a specific recording or playback duration.”

The UF2e-7005 is equipped with 64 MBytes memory as standard, but can be expanded to 4 GBytes. This enables signals to be recorded or generated for periods of up to 16 seconds on 16 channels at 125 MHz and to 262 seconds when using just one channel.

For many applications, it will not be necessary to purchase additional memory as the signal data can be streamed to or from the host PC. As the PCI Express x1 bus has a maximum continuous transfer rate of 120 MBytes/s this means 8 bits or less can be streamed at just less than the maximum clock rate, while 4, 2 or 1 channels can be streamed at the maximum rate. Due to the serial bus nature of PCIe, every card can operate at this rate, unlike the 66 MHz / 33 Mhz PCI bus where the bandwidth is shared between multiple cards or attached motherboard devices.

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