High-speed digitiser samples up to 2GS/s
Agilent Technologies has extended its next generation of high-speed digitisers supporting custom on-board signal processing capability with the U5309A 8-bit PCIe digitiser sampling up to 2GS/s. The digitiser and the U5340A FPGA development kit were announced six months ago to address the needs of OEM applications such as mass spectrometry time-of-flight, lidar ranging, pulsed radar and ultrasonic imaging.
The digitiser features two channels with an analogue bandwidth from DC to 500MHz, a large DDR3 memory for long acquisition time, and a very high data throughput with its PCIe 2.0 eight-lane interface. In addition, it includes a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA, which allows users to load custom real-time signal processing algorithms created with the development kit software.
The new PCIe high-speed digitiser focus is also on interoperability, reusability and upgradability. The software driver provided supports multiple programmable interfaces for easy integration of the data converter into existing environments. The versatility provided by the common architecture is further enhanced by the custom on-board signal processing. Companies and research institutions can implement their own algorithm as they develop technologies for high-end applications