Introducing the CompuScope 8500
— At 500 MSPS, it's the Fastest A/D Board for PCI Bus
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500 MSPS sample rate for one-shot signals
PCI bus interface, including Bus Mastering
8 bit vertical resolution
Up to 2 Megasamples of on-board memory
Stream A/D data to PC Memory at 100 MB/s
Programmable input gain and coupling
Internal or external trigger capability
Drivers for DOS, QNX, Win 3.1, Win 95 and Win NT
Oscilloscope-like analog front-end
No GPIB or IEEE-488 bus required
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CompuScope 8500
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Montreal, Canada ( January 6, 1999) -
Gage Applied Sciences Inc., the leading manufacturer of high quality, high speed data acquisition systems, introduces the CompuScope 8500, the world's fastest A/D board for the PCI bus. CompuScope 8500 is a PCI bus compatible, 8 bit A/D card capable of performing at sampling rates up to 500 MSPS (Million Samples Per Second).
Key features of the CompuScope 8500 / PCI include:
- 500 MSPS sample rate for one-shot signals
- PCI bus interface, including Bus Mastering
- 8 bit vertical resolution
- Up to 2 Megasamples of on-board memory
- Stream A/D data to PC Memory at 100 MB/s
- Programmable input gain and coupling
- Internal or external trigger capability
- Drivers for DOS, QNX, Win 3.1, Win 95 and Win NT
- Oscilloscope-like analog front-end
- No GPIB or IEEE-488 bus required
Gage uses highly reliable, Flash A/D chips to do the 500 MHz sampling. The result is that a very high Signal To Noise Ratio (SNR) of 45 dB is achieved along with a DC to 250 MHz bandwidth on a repeatable basis.
At the 500 MHz sampling rate, CompuScope 8500 stores the digitized data in on-board memory. Memory buffers of up to 2 Million samples are available.
CompuScope 8500 takes full advantage of the fast data throughput offered by the PCI bus. Using Bus Mastering, data can be transferred from the on-board memory to the PC's memory at rates up to 100 MB/s - more than 100 times the ISA bus throughput!
For sampling rates lower than 100 MSPS, CompuScope 8500 is also capable of writing the A/D data directly to the PC's DRAM, instead of storing it in the on-board memory. This allows for memory buffers as deep as 1 GigaByte!
An on-board, high speed FIFO allows the CompuScope 8500 to keep on streaming data to PC memory, even during the bus latencies, i.e. the time during which the PCI bus is disengaged from the CompuScope card.
CompuScope 8500 comes with FREE award-winning GageScope software which enables users to operate the card like an oscilloscope without writing a single line of programming code. It also allows users to store, analyze and print their data and to convert it to an ASCII format for export to spreadsheets and mathematical software packages.
Gage provides software drivers in all popular operating systems, such as MSDOS, DOS 4G, QNX, Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT. These drivers can be used to control all the features of the CompuScope 8500 / PCI.
All popular compilers are supported by these drivers: these include Borland C, Microsoft C, Watcom C, Quick BASIC, Visual BASIC, Visual C++, Borland C++, Delphi and many more.
Drivers are also available for use with LabVIEW, LabWindows CVI and HP VEE programming environments for customers who are more comfortable with visual programming.
Other CompuScope products include CompuScope 8012A (12 bit, 100 MSPS A/D card for ISA bus), CompuScope 8012 / PCI (12 bit, 80 MSPS A/D card for PCI bus), and 8 bit A/D boards such as CompuScope 2125 (8 bit, 250 MSPS A/D card , with optional 2 GSPS equivalent time sampling), CompuScope 250 (100 MSPS A/D with memory buffers up to 8 MB), CompuScope 225 (50 MSPS sampling with memory buffers up to 8 MB), and CompuScope LITE (40 MSPS sampling for an incredibly low price).
Typical applications of the CompuScope 8500 include Disk Drive Testing, Cellular communications, RF Receivers, Radar, Lidar, Imaging, Non-destructive testing, Ultrasonic testing, Laser Doppler Anemometry, High end video, CCD testing, vibration analysis, laser diode characterization, impact testing etc.
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For Further Information
For further information, contact Nicole Faubert at +1-514-633-7007, extension 3034, or via e-mail at: marketing @ gage-applied.
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