Test & Measurement
High Speed Digital I/O Boards for PCI Express
Strategic Test has announced the industry’s fastest Digital Input/Output boards for PCI Express.
With up to 32 channels, recording or replay rates to 125 MHz and the possibility to synchronize up to 127 boards, including Digitizers and Arbitrary Waveform Generators, large mixed-mode Automated Test Systems for electronic sub-assemblies and digital semiconductor components can be created.
TherThe digital I/O channels can be software selected for input or output in 16 channel increments. The UF2e-7020 and UF2e-7021 are also able to record and replay simultaneously. All inputs and outputs are TTL compatible.
External clock and trigger connectors are provided. A wide variety of bit and pattern trigger conditions can be set.
The standard boards are supplied with 64 MegaBytes of onboard memory. This can be expanded to 4 GigaBytes for the longest recording and replay times, even at the maximum clock rates. At slower clock rates data can be streamed to or from the host PC.
A unique feature is that the board can be equipped with a second user-selected quartz crystal oscillator for applications that require a highly accurate specific output rate.
Prices start at $3,390. All UltraFast boards are supplied with the free SBench software that allows users to record or replay digital waveforms without programming. SBench is available for both Windows and Linux.