2-channel, 125 MS/s 8-bit Arbitrary Waveform Generator

Woburn , MA USA – December 4, 2007. Strategic Test, one of the world’s leading suppliers of PC-based instrument boards, has announced the UF2e-6110 two-channel 125 MS/s 8-bit Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) PCI Express card.

With synchronous multi-channel capability, the AWG card is well suited for creating complex waveforms in applications that include I&Q signal generation, RADAR system development, communications testing, laser positioning, and HDTV signal generation.

Each channel has its own 8-bit Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) to ensure synchronous output and a choice of three reconstruction filters (5 th and 4 th order Butterworth lowpass) giving bandwidths of 25 MHz, 5 MHz or 500 kHz. A no-filter option is also software-selectable.

Typical dynamic specifications include signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of better than 60.9 dB, total harmonic distortion (THD) of less than 69.1 dB and spurious-free dynamic range ( SFDR) greater than 71.9 dB.

The board is supplied with 64 mega samples of signal memory as standard, but can be expanded to 4 giga samples through a proprietary onboard DIMM module.

As with all UltraFast AWG boards, the signals can be downloaded to on-board memory, output one time, or continuously until stopped, or continuously streamed gap-free from the host PC RAM or hard disks.

The following options are available allowing the user to customize the instrument:

• Onboard memory: 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048 or 4096 MegaSamples
• Multiple Replay (memory segmentation)
• Gated Replay (output clock controlled by external TTL signal)
• Star Hub (synchronization of up to 5 or 16 boards, or 5 to 16 PC’s. Can be used with Digitizer and Digital I/O boards to create mixed mode systems)
• BaseXIO (adds 8 asynchronous digital I/O lines)
• Amplifier board (increases output range from ±3 V to ±10 V)

Strategic Test also provides the industry’s most comprehensive software support with the following Software Development Kit’s available:

• Windows Vista and XP64, XP, 2000, NT and 98
• Linux drivers for RedHat, Suse, Fedora and Debian
• MATLAB
• LabVIEW
• Agilent-VEE
• LabWindows/CVI
• DASYLab

All UltraFast boards are supplied with the free-of-charge SBench software that allows users to generate and output waveforms without programming. SBench is available for both Windows and Linux.

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About Strategic Test

Strategic Test is a world leading supplier of PC instrument boards and has offices in the USA and Europe. Clients include global electronics, semiconductor, defense, telecommunications and medical instrument companies, government funded research labs and universities on five continents.

The first high-speed measurement board for PC’s was designed in 1989. Today the product range consists of more than 200 Oscilloscope/ Digitizer, Arbitrary Waveform Generator, high-speed Digital I/O and Digital Pattern Generator boards in the industry standard PCI Express, PCI, 3U PXI and 6U CompactPCI formats.

Each product can be individually configured from a choice of more than eight hardware options design to address the needs of specific applications.