digitizerNETBOX – Ethernet/LXI digitizer solution

All easy instruments are complete instruments with extensive features and wide software support. All inputs are equipped with BNC connectors, therefore no special adapter cables are required.

The digitizerNETBOX is a four-, eight or sixteen-channel 16-bit digitizer with synchronous sampling rates from 200 kS/s to 60 MS/s. The data is stored in an internal 1 GB (512 MSample) large data memory and can be read via Ethernet. The analog inputs offer a variety of settings: each input can be referenced to ground (single-ended) or can be operated in differential mode (true differential). Additionally up to 8 different input ranges, programmable signal offset and switchable termination can be defined by the user.

In addition, the digitizerNETBOX offers various recording modes with an extremely comprehensive trigger engine: the 2 external trigger sources and each input channel trigger can be combined with AND and OR conjunction. As a channel trigger one can select as example: Edge, level, window, spike or pulse width. Supported recording modes are single shot, streaming, segmented (Multiple Recording), gated (Gated Sampling) or the combination of segmented and slow chart recorder operation (ABA mode).

The digitizerNETBOX is connected via GBit Ethernet either directly to a host computer (e.g. laptop or workstation) or anywhere on the corporate network. With this data can be remotely taken directly at the place where they occur. For industrial 19” standard rack mounting a 19” option is available.

A common application is the collection of data in mobile operation. For this the DigitizerNETBOX can be ordered with a DC power supply and can be directed via a laptop or 12V industrial PC.

SBench 6 supports all usage modes and settings of the hardware with comfortable setup dialogues. The software is able to run the cards in oscilloscope mode as well as long time transient recording mode (streaming mode). A special feature of SBench 6 is the segmented view that allows to display segment based signals together with signals of a second timebase (ABA mode) as well as highly precise timestamps. Besides this SBench 6 has a lot of build-in features for comfortable data anaysis and documentation like FFT analysis, XY display, a function interpreter, several integrated analysis functions, export into ASCII, Wave, MATLAB, comment functions for signals and display details as well as a comfortable printout function.

The digitizerNETBOX follows LXI Core 2011 Specifications and can therefore be completely transparent addressed by an IVI driver. The Spectrum IVI driver supports the IVI classes Scope and Digitizer.

Customers who want to program by themselves can use the proven SPCM driver for Windows and Linux which are included in the delivery. A set of standard programming examples is provided to illustrate the boards main signal capture functions. Extensive support includes Visual C++, Borland C++, Gnu C++, Visual Basic, VB.NET, C#, J#, Delphi and Python code.

A 2-year manufacturer warranty is standard for all Spectrum hardware products. Drivers, software and firmware updates are available free of charge as well as the support given directly by the developer engineers themselves.