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User Manual: Family of 8-bit Digitizers

ZM020010I Rev.A

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GILENT

CQIRIS

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ANUAL

AMILY OF

BIT

IGITIZERS

For Use with DP and DC Series Digitizers

Models covered:

DP105 / DP106 / DP110

DP111 / DP210 / DP211 / DP212

DP214 / DP235 / DP240

DP1400

DC110 / DC135 / DC140

DC211 / DC211A / DC240 / DC241 / DC241A

DC265 / DC270 / DC271 / DC271A / DC271AR

Summary of Contents for Acqiris DC110

Page 1: ... AGILENT ACQIRIS USER MANUAL FAMILY OF 8 BIT DIGITIZERS For Use with DP and DC Series Digitizers Models covered DP105 DP106 DP110 DP111 DP210 DP211 DP212 DP214 DP235 DP240 DP1400 DC110 DC135 DC140 DC211 DC211A DC240 DC241 DC241A DC265 DC270 DC271 DC271A DC271AR ...

Page 2: ... companies Any versions of this manual which are supplied with a purchased product will be replaced at your request with the latest revision in electronic format At Agilent Technologies we appreciate and encourage customer input If you have a suggestion related to the content of this manual or the presentation of information please contact your local Acqiris representative or Acqiris Technical Sup...

Page 3: ...2 3 1 Kernel Mode Driver Compilation 22 2 3 2 Special cases 23 2 3 3 Environment variables for the Firmware 23 2 4 Installing the Hardware 23 2 5 After Restarting 24 2 5 1 Windows 2000 24 2 5 2 Windows XP 24 2 6 LabVIEW RT 26 2 7 Installing the IVI COM C Driver 27 2 8 Distribution for Windows 2000 XP and Linux 27 3 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 28 3 1 Overview 28 3 2 Channel Input 29 3 2 1 Coupling 29 3 2 2...

Page 4: ... Acquisition Mode 45 4 2 8 Timebase and Memory 46 4 2 9 Using digitizers of different models simultaneously 46 4 2 10 Segmented Memory 47 4 2 11 Display Features Zoom and Persistence 47 4 3 Top Line Menu of AcqirisLive 48 4 4 Setup 48 4 5 Store Autostore and Conversion of Waveforms 48 4 6 Calibrate 50 4 7 Combine channels 50 4 8 External 10 MHz Reference and External Clock 50 4 9 Additional Wavefo...

Page 5: ...r 3 PRODUCT DESCRIPTION provides a full description of all the functional elements of the digitizer Chapter 4 RUNNING THE ACQIRISLIVE APPLICATION describes the operation of AcqirisLive 3 1 an application that enables basic operation of Acqiris digitizers in a Windows 2000 XP environment Note AcqirisMAQS is an alternate software application offering many interesting possibilities for the control of...

Page 6: ... disc in an Acqiris paper CD envelope that includes o 10 product user manuals in electronic form Signal Analyzers Streamer Analyzers Family of 8 bit Digitizers Family of 10 bit Digitizers Family of 12 bit Digitizers Family of Averagers Family of Analyzers Family of Time Counters CC10X Family of CompactPCI Crates and CC121 CompactPCI Crate o 1 Programmer s Guide and 1 Programmer s Reference Manual ...

Page 7: ...al services product support and equipment repair and service on the Web see http www agilent com find service or http www agilent com and after selecting your country click on Contact Us The service center will ask for your name company phone number and address the model and serial numbers of the unit to be repaired and a brief description of the problem Before issuing a Service Order they will as...

Page 8: ...to hold the card in place To package the instrument for shipping Step Notes 1 Place the instrument in its original packaging materials If the original packaging materials are not available use a professional packaging service Contact your Agilent Service Center for more information 2 Surround the instrument with at least 3 to 4 inches 8 to 10 cm of its original packing material or bubble pack to p...

Page 9: ...h If any dirt remains wipe with a cloth moistened in a mild soap solution Remove any soap residue by wiping with a cloth moistened with clear water Do not use abrasive compounds on any parts 1 13 Disposal and Recycling Electronic equipment should be properly disposed of Acqiris Digitizers and their accessories must not be thrown out as normal waste Separate collection is appropriate and may be req...

Page 10: ...I module socket furthest from the PCI card internal base connector and the Black connector into the next socket If you intend to use 64 bit 66 MHz transfer to maximize data transfer speed you should cable a bundled link using two standard cable pairs and both the L0 and L1 pairs of connectors You should also make sure that you configure the PXI 8570 M66EN Jumper correctly 2 1 2 IC414 Windows softw...

Page 11: ...hould exit Setup and move all Acqiris driver files acqiris acqrs and acqir to some archive directory The DLL files will be installed into the bin subdirectory of the Acqiris software root and the corresponding path will be added to the PATH environment variable 2 2 2 Multiple Versions With the software installation from Acqiris Software 2 0 or above it is possible to keep multiple versions on the ...

Page 12: ...installation click Next The following screen will be shown 4 Please enter your user information and click Next to continue If the program finds that there is still Acqiris software installed on your machine a warning panel not shown will appear Otherwise the next screen shows ...

Page 13: ...ally allow the documentation to be installed Remove the check from the box if you do not want online access to the manuals 7 The next screen allows you to enable LabVIEW RT and or Wind River VxWorks support By default there will be none but if desired you can install any of them together with Windows support or without Windows support Click Next to continue ...

Page 14: ...ype After having made your choice Click Next to continue 9 If you chose the Custom installation the following screen will let you select each package individually Note that the space indicated for LabVIEW Firmware and UserManual packages is incorrect The correct values are 4 1 MB 21 MB and 27 MB respectively ...

Page 15: ...tallation have all been decided you will be prompted for the installation folder This will be the root directory of the Acqiris software installation If User Manuals 27 MB and Firmware 21 MB are loaded more space than indicated here will be required on the drive For the case of a Tornado 2 2 installation the folder name should not contain any spaces 12 Furthermore you should give a name to the sho...

Page 16: ...firmware will be installed 14 AcqirisLive needs the LabWindows CVI 7 0 Run Time Engine to run If Setup has detected that a LabWindows CVI Run Time Engine is already installed on your system it will ask you if you would like to install it locally for AcqirisLive anyway If you are not sure about the version of the CVI Run Time Engine on your system it is recommended to install it locally Click Next ...

Page 17: ...7 of 66 15 Depending on the install type you may be asked which LabVIEW version format you want for the LabVIEW files Select the appropriate format and click Next to continue 16 A summary will be shown to allow you to check what you have asked for ...

Page 18: ... ready to install You may still go back to any previous screen to modify your selection Click Install when ready 18 Setup will now copy the files and make the necessary changes to your system When done an information screen will be displayed Please read this carefully ...

Page 19: ...19 of 66 19 Registration of your installation will help us provide you with better support You will also be notified of updates and upgrades All information submitted to us will be treated confidentially and never be disclosed outside the company ...

Page 20: ... procedure You can then decide whether or not you wish to send it You may also add comments Uncheck the box if you do not want to register your installation 21 Click Finish The software installation is now complete 22 You can now either accept the suggestion to restart the computer or you should shutdown your computer and proceed with the hardware installation ...

Page 21: ...led under SL 4 4 with GNU gcc 3 4 AcqirisLinux 3 1a gcc 4 1 tar gz compiled under Debian etch with GNU gcc 4 1 The Kernel Driver source code is available for recompilation for users with other Linux systems The appropriate tar file should be copied to a local directory e g your home directory and then unpacked by using the following command tar xzf AcqirisLinux 3 1a gcc X x tar gz The resulting di...

Page 22: ...bution To compile the driver the kernel header files need to be installed Furthermore depending on the Linux distribution the kernel source files may need to be installed The makefile will try to guess where they are located If it fails see instructions inside the makefile itself to specify manually where these kernel header files are located To compile a new kernel under linux 2 4 issue the follo...

Page 23: ...er of the PC and the crate in the case of a CompactPCI module CAUTION For PCI modules the PC may have to be unplugged to ensure that the PCI bus has no power available However CompactPCI crates can be left plugged in since this ensures proper grounding CAUTION Touch the antistatic package to a grounded object before removing the card from the package Electrostatic discharge can damage the card 2 M...

Page 24: ...ws 2000 you must login with administrator privileges after the first boot following the hardware installation the Plug Play system must have the appropriate privileges to be able to complete your hardware installation successfully After a successful hardware installation you will be able to use your Acqiris Digitizer s with normal privileges At the first boot following the hardware installation Wi...

Page 25: ...al Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 25 of 66 To proceed with the installation click No not this time and then Next The following window will appear To proceed with the installation click Next You should then see ...

Page 26: ...tly at this point One additional boot cycle may be needed if this is the first time that a hardware board is being installed 2 6 LabVIEW RT During program development you can choose whether you use LabVIEW or LabVIEW RT compatible libraries by switching the version present in National Instruments LabVIEW m n instr lib This swap can be facilitated by ...

Page 27: ...NI RT system directory using the file transfer application select the FPGA files from AcqirisDxRoot Firmware you want to copy to the target and upload them into the firmware directory Restart the target after finishing the file transfers Restart the MAX Explorer and you should have Acqiris digitizers detected in your PXI system 2 7 Installing the IVI COM C Driver Please install Acqiris Software fo...

Page 28: ...d they comply with the 3U Compact PCI standard PXI compliant DC2XX series digitizers occupy a single slot of a 6U CompactPCI crate and they comply with the 6U CompactPCI standard PXI compliant Acqiris digitizers are designed to provide superior measurement precision and accuracy Key acquisition specifications such as DC accuracy integral and differential non linearity have been optimized to delive...

Page 29: ...t 50 Ω can be input without damaging the front end electronics The front end also provides an overload protection that will automatically switch the coupling from 50 Ω to 1 MΩ if the signal is greater than 5 V DC This is implemented for most modules not the DC2x1A that have the 1MΩ impedance possibility 3 2 4 Mezzanine Front end The front end electronics are all mounted on a removable mezzanine ca...

Page 30: ...ax FS 0 5 V DP214 U1069A 1 GHz NA 0 35 ns 20 200 700 MHz 5 V DC271 FAMILY DP235 U1069A 500 MHz NA 0 7 ns 20 200 MHz 5 V DC271 FAMILY DP240 U1069A 1 GHz NA 0 35 ns 20 200 700 MHz 5 V DC271 FAMILY DP1400 U1071A 1 GHz NA 0 35 ns 20 200 700 MHz 5 V DC110 250 MHz 250 MHz 8 pF 1 4 ns NA 20 V BW50 200 MHz DC135 U1061A 500 MHz NA 0 7 ns 20 200 MHz 5 V DC271 FAMILY FC Option DC140 U1061A 1 GHz NA 0 7 ns 20...

Page 31: ...2 V when using an FS Input Voltage setting of 500 mV or below increasing to Maximum Offset for FS settings above 500 mV The raw 8 bit ADC data values are in the range 128 127 with the first and last values reserved for underflow and overflow respectively The midpoint value 0 of the range corresponds to the negative of the offset voltage Thus the Full Scale Range FSR goes from Offset Voltage FS 2 t...

Page 32: ...ctance 3 3 Data Acquisition The table below summarizes the characteristics discussed in the sections that follow Model Max Sampling Rate Max CONVER TERS PER CHANNEL CHANNELS Default Memory points channel Maximum Optional Memory channel Maximum Segments TTI Reso lution Timebase Accuracy External Clock Max Min Thresh DP105 500 MS s 1 1 128K 2M 4000 80 ps 50 ppm 2 V DP106 500 MS s 1 1 128K 2M 4000 80...

Page 33: ...and Sequential storage modes For both of these modes the data of all of the active channels is acquired synchronously all of the ADC s are acquiring data at the same time to within a small fraction of the maximum sampling rate The Single Acquisition mode is the normal operation of most digitizer products In this mode an acquisition consists of a waveform recorded with a single trigger The user sel...

Page 34: ... the possibility of combining the converters and their memories from two or four channels to analyze a single input channel With this feature the maximum sampling rate and the maximum amount of acquisition memory can be doubled or quadrupled if all of the input channels are not of immediate interest 3 4 Trigger Normally the trigger settings applied to the digitizer are used to determine the time a...

Page 35: ...e trigger when it passes through the specified trigger level Positive slope indicates that the signal is transitioning from a lower voltage to a higher voltage Negative slope indicates the signal is transitioning from a higher voltage to a lower voltage 3 4 5 Window Trigger The DC271 FAMILY digitizers and the 2 channels of the DP1400 implement a Window trigger Two trigger level thresholds are used...

Page 36: ...and Reference For applications where the user wants to replace the internal clock of the digitizer and drive the ADC with an external source either an External Clock or an External Reference signal can be used The Clock or Reference signals can be entered into the digitizer either by the dedicated MMCX DC271 FAMILY MCX DP1400 or BNC DC240 connector or via the shared External Input connector on the...

Page 37: ...C Series digitizers may be used in applications that require many data acquisition channels In such cases it is possible to use more than one digitizer in a standard CompactPCI PXI crate Each DC Series digitizer except the DC135 and DC140 models includes ASBus a proprietary high bandwidth auto synchronous bus system that allows multiple digitizers to work together synchronously The ASBus distribut...

Page 38: ...rformance Signal 1 6V swing 0v centered Offset 2 5 V G 1 50 Ohm Trigger Out For a TTL compatible signal set the offset to 1 0 V and the swing at destination will be 0 2 to 1 8 V For an ECL compatible signal terminated on 50 Ω to 1 2 V set the offset to 1 2 V and the output will be in the range 0 8 V 1 6 V Alternatively to reduce the current drawn from the digitizer the terminations shown here can ...

Page 39: ...00 24 27 0 93 1 7 1 1 1 9 0 03 DP240 2 2 100 24 27 0 93 1 7 1 1 1 9 0 03 DP1400 2 3 100 14 27 0 09 1 3 1 8 0 04 DC110 2 1 100 15 17 0 7 1 1 0 4 0 9 NA DC135 2 2 20 12 13 3 0 46 0 46 1 1 1 5 0 04 DC140 2 2 20 13 16 0 46 0 46 1 4 2 2 0 04 DC211 2 2 100 42 50 1 7 2 7 3 0 4 5 0 05 DC211A 2 2 100 42 50 1 7 2 7 3 0 4 5 0 05 DC240 2 1 100 40 45 1 3 3 2 3 5 NA DC241 2 2 100 42 50 1 7 2 7 3 0 4 5 0 05 DC24...

Page 40: ...hould be avoided Relative Humidity 5 to 95 non condensing Dimensions All DP modules conform to the PCI standard The DP214 DP235 DP240 and DP211 DP212 DP111 modules are 107 mm 210 mm and require a long card slot If used with the XP103 fan they can be adjusted to conform to the full 342 mm length The DP1400 measures 107 mm 170 mm without its fan If used with the XP104 fan it can be adjusted to confo...

Page 41: ...inue in simulation mode If this is not wanted turn off the computer install and turn ON the hardware on the PCI bus and then restart the computer AcqirisLive is intended to verify the functionality of the card and to serve as an easy to use and convenient program for capturing displaying and archiving captured data into the format of your choice binary or ASCII AcqirisLive is provided free with th...

Page 42: ... the control panel The distinction between the control panels for the two operating modes can be seen in the images below In both modes it is possible to set the memory depth and the sample speed independently within the limits of the maximum available memory However the two modes differ in the following way In Oscilloscope Mode the user selects the time window time per div and the sampling rate w...

Page 43: ... collecting data There is a small rectangular indicator button to the left of each channel name in the channel list If this indicator is filled in the channel waveform is active the channel is turned on and displayed in the display window Clicking on this indicator once turns it transparent This deactivates the reading of the data from the channel and clears the waveform display Clicking once agai...

Page 44: ...r decrement automatically 2 Click on a digit and drag the mouse up or down to increase or decrease the value 3 Type a new value with the keyboard for any highlighted digit The value is constrained to fall within its allowed range whenever the user attempts to enter a larger or smaller value Digits that are below the resolution or granularity cannot be modified A message is displayed in the numeric...

Page 45: ... digitizer models when external trigger is selected the controls for the trigger termination 50 Ω or 1 MΩ are enabled in the Coupling section Select the desired termination for the external trigger The Coupling section also contains a selection for AC or DC coupling AC coupling on the trigger sets the trigger circuit to an AC Low Frequency Reject mode Use the Level section to set the desired trigg...

Page 46: ...cause the internal auto trigger generated by the digitizer is asynchronous to the input signal Auto mode is often used to aid in setup when the input signal must be quickly characterized in order to determine proper trigger settings for Normal or Single mode acquisitions 4 2 8 Timebase and Memory The timebase and memory settings should be chosen together in order to optimize the desired sample rat...

Page 47: ... selection control under the Memory section of the control window and start the acquisition 4 2 11 Display Features Zoom and Persistence A waveform zoom feature is available under the View menu of the display window The screen image below shows the normal display and the zoom window that appears when zoom is selected The zoom scale and center position are modified using the horizontal and vertical...

Page 48: ...rations When you store a configuration the parameters used to configure each of the channels of each module together with the timebase and trigger configurations will be saved in a file You will be asked to choose the destination directory for the file and be allowed to give it an appropriate name When you choose to recover a file you will be asked to give the name or navigate to it using the brow...

Page 49: ...on the hard drive Binary files can be subsequently converted to either Raw ADC values or to Amplitude values using the Data Format Conversion utility provided with AcqirisLive Selecting the Write files at end option acquires all waveforms into memory first before converting to the selected format and writing the data to disk This option allows for faster data capture times Selecting the Show wavef...

Page 50: ...t threshold option available in the options menu must also be set appropriately The 10 MHz Reference can be activated at the I O B output The External Clock function is available in AcqirisLive only when using the control panel in Transient Recorder mode The input frequency should be keyed into the clock frequency selector outlined in red on the control panel Then the appropriate sampling frequenc...

Page 51: ... switches a start in Averager mode b Buffer size for large waveforms B Number of banks for SMAR mode c no initial calibration d use DMA for data transfers default h high priority process default i use acquisition interrupts l low priority process m medium priority process n no DMA for data transfers p Use acquisition polling r start in Transient Recorder digitizer mode s simulation mode t temperat...

Page 52: ...ata transfers on the PCI bus between the digitizer memory and the PC are done in DMA Direct Memory Access mode which allows the fastest transfer speeds up to about 130 MB s peak 100 MB s sustained acquisition data rate These very high data rates are not well supported by all hardware configurations PC motherboard and system hangs due to endless retries on the PCI bus have been observed on some mac...

Page 53: ...State This switch turns on the display of the current acquisition state Stopped Ready Started Reading Data ready This is helpful when running with time consuming settings e g many segments overlaid many channels large records etc but will slow down the overall performance Multi instruments By default AcqirisLive tries to detect instruments connected through ASBus and will initialize any connected ...

Page 54: ...ows 2000 or XP will not need the GeoMapper Users who do not need GeoMapper do not need to read this chapter any further 5 2 When should the GeoMapper Application be used The application needs to be used whenever the bus or slot configuration of the system changes in a fundamental way The most obvious trouble symptom is that an expected multi Instrument was not found Alternatively the driver can is...

Page 55: ... be turned on RED This should make it easy to identify which crate the modules are in The third step is to specify the number of slots in each crate This is shown below The 4th step consists of arranging the modules of each crate into the correct order The menu shown below is one in which all of this work has been done for the modules of a fully populated CC121 Selecting a position will cause a mo...

Page 56: ...guration will be memorized and made available to the driver The GeoMapper application will always work with the standard AqGeo map file If you need to have several such files corresponding to different configurations it is up to you to either rename the files or transfer them to other directories in an appropriate manner ...

Page 57: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 57 of 66 6 Appendix A ASBus for CompactPCI PXI Digitizers Specification and User Instructions ...

Page 58: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 58 of 66 7 Appendix B ASBus2 for PCI Digitizers ...

Page 59: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 59 of 66 8 Appendix C XA001 Battery Backup for CompactPCI Digitizers Specification and Assembly Instructions ...

Page 60: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 60 of 66 9 Appendix D XA100 BNC Input Overvoltage Protection Specifications and User Instructions ...

Page 61: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 61 of 66 10 Appendix E XP100 Fan Unit for DP214 DP235 DP240 units Specification and Assembly Instructions ...

Page 62: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 62 of 66 11 Appendix F XP101 Fan Unit for DP Digitizers Obsolete Specification and Assembly Instructions ...

Page 63: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 63 of 66 12 Appendix G XP103 Fan Unit for the DP Family of Modules Specification and Assembly Instructions ...

Page 64: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 64 of 66 13 Appendix H XP104 Fan Unit for DP1400 ...

Page 65: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 65 of 66 ...

Page 66: ...User Manual Family of 8 bit Digitizers Page 66 of 66 14 Appendix I XP105 Fan Unit for DP1400 ...

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