Until now, customers requiring an eight-channel data acquisition system had to order a three-slot cPCI chassis, including two digitizer modules and an interface card to the computer.

Today they can select the single-slot, eight-channel U5309A PCIe digitizer, which has multiple advantages in cost, reliability and performance-as well as the tremendous size reduction into a single slot card. The installation is as simple as a direct plug into the computer PCIe slot, immediately providing eight channels of simultaneous acquisition.

"This eight-channel product should interest universities and research institutes looking for a cost-effective, high-density, very reliable and high-performance high-speed digitizer," said Agilent's Jean-Luc Lehmann, product manager, Embedded OEM.

"New applications will certainly benefit from this product, leveraging its high-channel density-particularly for OEM customers, where small footprint is an important factor."

The eight channels at 1GS/s version increases the offering of the U5309A product recently launched with its two-channel version. Channels can be interleaved to reach a 2 GS/s sampling rate. Applications will also benefit from the high data throughput provided by the Gen2 eight-lane PCIe bus and the possibility to implement real-time signal processing algorithms into the on-board FPGA.

Features:

－ Pulsed radar

－ Analytical time-of-flight

－ Laser ranging / Emission monitoring

－ Ultrasonic imaging

－ 8-bit resolution and a DC to 500 MHz frequency range, up to 2 GB DDR3 on-board memory and acquisition control using a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA

－ 2 channels up to 2 GS/s or 8 channels up to 1 GS/s

－ Support for loading custom real-time processing