Ultraview Corporation, a leader in fast data acquisition boards, today has announced an ultra-fast PCIe data acquisition board series allowing uninterrupted acquisition of two concurrent 3 GSPS 8-bitA/D channels. The board's unique combination of speed, reconfigurable processing, and very deep on-board memory enable new data acquisition capabilities in SIGINT, surveillance, missile testing, RADAR and other defense, scientific, and medical applications. When installed in any x16 PCIe slot, the AD8-3000 can acquire data at an aggregate rate up to 6 GB/sec, optionally process it in the on-board Virtex-5 FPGA, buffer it in the 8GB onboard DDR-II RAM, and continuously stream the data via 1.4GB/sec PCIe x8 DMA transfers to host system RAM, for immediate use, graphical display, or storage to disk. A selective recording feature allows acquisition to be dynamically stopped and started in response to a TTL input, increasing effective memory depth by storing only the needed data, for RADAR, burst communication, pulsed-spectroscopy and other applications.
Designed for high speed, low-jitter, operation in critical OEM applications, the AD8-3000 allows either straight data acquisition, requiring no user development, or in-line FPGA dataflow processing using the on-board Xilinx Virtex-5 (XC5VLX50T or optionally any 1136-pin Virtex-5 up to XC5VLX155T ).
For use as a standard data acquisition board the supplied user software and device driver allow users to acquire and view data with only a few minutes required to setup the board. Drivers, user software, and example user source code are supplied for both 64-bit Linux and 32-bit Windows Vista/XP . Graphical waveform display software, and routines to store data to disk are included with all boards, in C-language source and ready-to-run executable form.
The AD8-3000's host-uploadable firmware feature lets users reconfigure the on-board FPGA through the host system's PCIe bus, without a programming cable. This allows users to quickly, and even remotely, modify the board's supplied standard data acquisition VHDL firmware to perform advanced application-specific hardware signal processing, including filtering, sub-band tuning, averaging, spectroscopy, SDR and image processing. This modular VHDL firmware source is available toOEMusers.
For OEM applications, user/Ultraview-designed front-end mezzanines may be attached to the board, including higher resolution A/D and D/A converters, filters, amplifiers, and mixers. Ultraview President Dr. Joel Libove added, "The AD8-3000 is designed to address requirements for the highest performance data acquisition systems. It is an effective standalone system-on-a- board that will also be used as a component in systems configured by other manufacturers. Ultraview willOEMthe product to manufacturers who may use the on board FPGA capabilities and optional OEM front-end mezzanines to customize for specific applications."
Multiple, concurrently triggered,AD8-3000 boards may be ganged, to acquire multiple channels in lock step. For example, with four AD8-3000x2-8GBs and an AD8-SPLIT4 clock/trigger splitter, 8 A/D channels can be acquired concurrently at 3GSPS each, for a 24GSPS aggregate rate, with 4GB of acquisition depth on each channel. The 8GB dedicated RAM on each AD8-3000 allows ultra-fast single shot capture without requirements on host system bus throughput.
The AD8-3000 supports external clocks of 500MHz-1500MHz (sampling rates of 1 to 3GSPS), and also has a 2GSPS internal clock (other frequencies available).
Pricing in quantity of 2-9 boards is $9895 for AD8-3000x1-4GB (1-channel board with 4GB RAM) and $11,695 for AD8-3000x2-4GB (2-channel board with 4GB RAM). The AD8-3000x2 (2-channel board with8GBRAMis $12,195).
Ultraview, founded in 1987, manufactures a wide range of high performance OEM and COTS 8, 12, 14 and16-bit PCIe and PCI data acquisition boards, PCIe and PCI bus liveinsertion extender boards and analysis tools. These products are used in a wide variety of applications in defense, communications, scientific and OEM manufacturing and testing.
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