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Q. Are there ways to optimize the use of the on-board memory of the CompuScope card so that I can acquire more of the data that I'm actually interested in?

A. Yes, there are two main ways of optimizing the CompuScope's on-board memory. Multiple Record, a standard feature on many CompuScope models (optional on others), allows the CompuScope card to capture data on successive triggers and stack it in the on-board memory. Once the CompuScope card has finished capturing a Multiple Record segment, the trigger circuitry is automatically re-armed within 4 sample clock cycles to start looking for the next trigger. No software intervention is required.

Multiple Recording can be highly beneficial when only certain portions of the incoming signal are of interest and data capture during the dead time between successive portions is not useful--in applications such as radar pulses, ultrasound data, lightning pulses, imaging signals and explosion data.

The other method is known as Gated Digitization--an optional feature available on most CompuScope models.

Gated Digitization allows you to control the storage of A/D data with an external signal, so that data is stored in the CompuScope's on-board memory only when the external TTL GATE input is set to HIGH. In this way, you can stack successive data captures in the CompuScope's memory and acquire only the data of interest.

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