Gage CompuScope 14100C, Hardware Manual And Driver Installation Manual

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CompuScope 14100C product introduction
CompuScope 14100C is a 14 Bit, 100 MS/s data acquisition card for the CompactPCI
TM
Bus, capable of
sampling one channel at 100 MS/s and two simultaneous channels at 50 MS/s.
Recognizing that until very recently, almost all multi-MegaHertz data acquisition was done using Digital Storage
Oscilloscopes under GPIB control, Gage has ported all the features of these DSOs onto the CompuScope card.
This means that you do not have to rethink the solution in terms of a completely unknown data acquisition card.
You can simply develop the data acquisition system as if an oscilloscope were being used, but instead use a
CompuScope card to take advantage of its attractive price and performance.
Of course, CompuScope cards are much more than just another DSO under GPIB control:
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CS14100C features 14 bit vertical resolution as opposed to the 8 bit resolution offered by DSOs.
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Multi-card Master/Slave systems provide from 2 to 12 channels of simultaneous A/D conversion, something
normal DSOs simply cannot do.
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Data transfer rates from CompuScope memory to PC memory or extended memory run as high as 80 MB/s
for the CS14100C as compared to a few hundred KB/s for GPIB.
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CompuScope cards are easier to program, as Software Development Kits (SDKs) are available for C/C++,
MATLAB, LabVIEW and LabWindows/CVI.
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CompuScope cards are installed inside the CompactPCI
TM
chassis, so there is no external box such as a
DSO.
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The CS14100C cards have standard features such as Multiple Record, which help optimize the use of the
on-board memory by stacking data from successive bursts.
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You can also write software for a multi-card system in which all the cards are not in a Master/Slave
configuration. Drivers supplied by Gage support all these multi-card configurations.
Special features on the CompuScope 14100C include:
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Bus Mastering
CompuScope 14100C is fully capable of becoming a bus master in order to transfer data at the maximum
rate of 80 MB/s.
A bus Master is a card that can take control of the bus and transfer data to any PCI target device such as
system RAM without any involvement from the CPU.
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External Clocking
CompuScope 14100C comes standard with external clocking capability that allows synchronization of the
digitizers with an external system.
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Trigger Output
CompuScope 14100C provides a TTL output that signifies the occurrence of a trigger event on the card.
This signal can be used to synchronize other parts of the measurement signals to the CompuScope 14100C.