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NI's PCI Oscilloscopes Extend Speed and Channel Density while Lowering Test Cost

28th March 2007

NI-Emerson

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National Instruments has announced PCI versions of two popular high-speed and high-density digitisers/oscilloscopes, extending the company’s high-speed PCI offering to 2 GS/s and low-cost PCI offering to £330 or €475 per channel. The National Instruments PCI-5152 general-purpose digitiser converts a desktop PC into a full-featured oscilloscope. It offers a 2 GS/s real-time sampling rate on one channel or a 1 GS/s real-time sampling rate on two simultaneous channels. For repetitive signals, the module features an equivalent-time sampling (ETS) mode to sample at up to 20 GS/s. The board features 300 MHz bandwidth and ranges from 100 mV to 10 V with 50 Ω and 1 MΩ software-selectable input impedance. Engineers can customise the NI PCI-5152 digitiser through software to perform user-defined measurements in application areas including semiconductor chip characterisation, ultrasonic nondestructive test (NDT), optical coherence tomography (OCT) and mass spectroscopy.

Starting at just £330 or €475 per channel, the National Instruments PCI-5015 eight-channel, 60 MS/s, 12-bit data acquisition board increases system channel density while lowering test costs. With picosecond-level synchronisation accuracy among multiple modules, the device is ideal for building high-channel-count systems in application areas such as linear and phased-array ultrasonic NDT.

The NI-SCOPE driver, which is common to all NI digitisers, features more than 50 built-in measurement and analysis functions for time and frequency domain applications. Engineers can integrate the new digitisers with a variety of NI hardware including other digitisers, signal generators, high-speed digital I/O and multifunction data acquisition devices to create custom measurement solutions. The PCI-5152 and PCI-5105 digitisers also work with all National Instruments software including National Instruments LabVIEW, National InstrumentsLabWindows/CVI and NI TestStand as well as other common development environments such as C++, C# and .NET.