Gage CompuScope 14100C, Hardware Manual And Driver Installation Manual

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CompuScope 1610C product introduction
CompuScope 1610C is a 16 Bit, dual channel 10 MS/s data acquisition card for the CompactPCI
TM
Bus, the
world’s fastest 16 bit waveform digitizer.
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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CS1610C features 16 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 16 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 50 MB/s
for the CS1610C 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 CS1610C cards have standard features such as Multiple Record and External Clocking, 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 1610C include:
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Bus Mastering
CompuScope 1610C is fully capable of becoming a bus master in order to transfer data at the maximum rate
of 50 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.
When a CompactPCI
TM
card such as the CompuScope 1610C becomes the bus master, it is said to be
operating in the Master Mode.
On the other hand, when the CPU is controlling the transfer of data from the add-on card to its system RAM,
the card is said to be working in the Slave mode.
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External Clocking
CompuScope 1610C comes standard with external clocking capability that allows synchronization of the
digitizers with an external system.
It should be noted that the frequency of the external clock must be twice the desired sampling frequency.