Test & Measurement
Dual-Channel PCIe Digitiser Samples Up to 3.2GS/s
Agilent Technologies has introduced the U5303A, a compact dual-channel PCIe digitiser with 12-bit resolution, sampling up to 3.2GS/s, and on-board real-time processing. It delivers analogue fidelity, high effective number of bits and very low noise. The new digitiser features DC-to-1.8GHz bandwidth, 9.1 ENOB at 100MHz, 58dB signal-to-noise ratio and very high data-transfer rates from an eight-lane PCIe 2.0 interface.
The It gives users the ability to integrate advanced real-time signal processing within the embedded Xilinx Virtex-6 field-programmable gate array. This is made possible by the Agilent FPGA development kit for high-speed digitisers. This software kit provides interfaces that leverage the full density and speed of the FPGA while ensuring the digitiser’s outstanding level of performance at multi-gigasamples per second.
The new digitiser extends Agilent’s portfolio of PCIe-based products and high-speed digitizer cards, which also includes solutions in the AXIe and PXIe formats. To ease integration of the module into a PC, the U5303A also includes a comprehensive set of drivers.