Transientrecorders, Waveform Digitizer, Analog-To-Digital-Converter

Transientenrecorder, Waveform Digitizer, sometimes simply called Analog-To-Digital-Converter - are all the same name for the same solution. The names may differ with different scientific communities and different application fields. We prefer Waveform Digitizer.

Waveform Digitzers operate in principle like a storeage oscilloscope. They provide the possibility to record signalbehaviour over a predefined time. 

Application fields are e.g. research and development, laboratory equipment, medical equipment, spectroscopy, Radar, Laser Acoustics etc.

The PCI-card M2i-series is a new generation of waveform digitizers with 8 bit  to 16 bit resolution with a wide range of sampling rates from 200 kS/s up to 200 MS/s. The standard on board memory of 16 MB can be expanded up to 4 GB. As a result of the substantial on-board memory even fast signals may be recorded for long time with a high precision and a continuous data transfer up to 115 MBytes/s via PCI.

The connection link between the user and the hardware is an easy-to-use software SBench (WINDOWS and LINUX). Several drivers for graphical and text-based programming are available for LabVIEW, Agilent VEE or DASYLab.

The M2i card family offers a wide range of options that enlarge the application range where the boards can be used : ring buffer mode, FIFO mode,  multiple recording, gated sampling, timstamps, ABA mode (dual time base), Base XIO (enhanced trigger), Star-Hub (up to 16 boards can be combined and synchronized),  external clock I/O, reference clock, special clock option (extra quartz oscillator), external trigger I/O, analog trigger, pattern trigger enhanced trigger modes, spike trigger (slope)