Introduction
U5303A User's Manual
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Introduction
Overview
The Acqiris U5303A is a fast 12-bit PCIe signal acquisition card with programmable on-board
processing, making it ideal for biotechnology, semiconductors, and physics. The U5303A is
particularly suited for OEM applications with its fast PCI Express 2.0 eight lanes connection.
The U5303A occupies a single full-length PCIe slot of the host PC. It features sample rates of
500 MS/s, 1 GS/s, 1.6 GS/s or 2 GS/s per channel (depending on the option), and up to 4 GS/s in
interleaved mode, along with an analog bandwidth of up to 2 GHz and DDR3 acquisition memory
options up to 4 GB. The U5303A includes a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA allowing implementation of custom
real-time processing algorithms.
At the heart of the U5303A is a data processing unit (DPU) based on the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA. This
DPU is responsible for controlling the module functionality, data flow and real-time signal processing.
This powerful feature allows data reduction and storage to be carried out at the ADC card level,
minimizing transfer volumes and speeding-up analysis.
