Spectrum Instrumentation announced additions to its M2p.65 xx Series of PCIe arbitrary waveform generators that can create waves with amplitude swings of up to ±12 V into 1 MOhms or ±6 V into 50 Ohms.
These PCIe arbitrary waveform generators have been fitted with additional amplification and larger cooling plates. This makes the cards a little wider, so that they occupy two PCIe slots, but they are still just 168 mm in length. The small size allows them to fit into almost any PC, turning it into a powerful and flexible waveform generator.
The M2p.65xx series AWGs use the latest 16-bit digital-to-analog converters and feature a fast PCIe x4 interface with up to 700 MByte/s streaming speed. Users can select output speed rates of either 40 MS/s (M2p.654x series) or 125 MS/s (M2p.657x series) and models with one, two or four channels per card.
Each channel features its own DAC and output stage. Multi-channel cards share a common clock and trigger to ensure full synchronization and the output stages incorporate four switchable filter paths to help optimize signal quality. The flexible output stages combine with the high resolution 16-bit DACs to enable the generation of signals with very low distortion, exceptional dynamic range and a high signal-to-noise ratio.
The cards are fully programmable and drivers are provided, free of charge, to support the most popular languages (such as C++, VB.NET, C#, J#, Delphi, Java or Python code) as well as third party software tools like LabVIEW and MATLAB. Alternatively, users can simply run Spectrum’s own software, SBench 6 Professional.
Spectrum Systementwicklung Microelectronic GmbH
Ahrensfelder Weg 13-17
22927 Grosshansdorf
Germany
Tel: +49 (0)4102 6956-0
Fax: +49 (0)4102 6956-66
