04/02/2007 -- eeProductCenter -- Austin, Texas—National Instruments announced PCI versions of two high-speed, high-density digitizers/oscilloscopes, extending the company's high-speed PCI offering to 2 GS/s (PCI-5152) and low-cost PCI offering (PCI-5015) to $500 per channel.
The PCI-5152 general-purpose digitizer 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 and 1 M software-selectable input impedance. Engineers can customize the NI PCI-5152 digitizer through software to perform user-defined measurements in application areas including semiconductor chip characterization, ultrasonic nondestructive test (NDT), optical coherence tomography (OCT) and mass spectroscopy.
Starting at just $500 per channel, the PCI-5015 eight-channel, 60 MS/s, 12-bit data acquisition board increases system channel density while lowering test costs. With picosecond-level synchronization accuracy among multiple modules, the device is suitable for building high-channel-count systems in application areas such as linear and phased-array ultrasonic NDT.
Pricing: PCI-5152 digitizer priced from $4,999; PCI-5105 digitizer priced from $3,999.
Availability: Now
Datasheets: PCI-5152 and PCI-5105.
National Instruments, 1 (888) 280-7645, www.ni.com
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