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Preface
Introduction
Introduction
Preface
This manual provides detailed information on the hardware features of your Spectrum board. This information includes technical data,
specifications, block diagram and a connector description.
In addition, this guide takes you through the process of installing your board and also describes the installation of the delivered driver package
for each operating system.
Finally this manual provides you with the complete software information of the board and the related driver. The reader of this manual will
be able to integrate the board in any PC system with one of the supported bus and operating systems.
Please note that this manual provides no description for specific driver parts such as those for IVI, LabVIEW or MATLAB. These driver manuals
are available on USB-Stick or on the Spectrum website.
For any new information on the board as well as new available options or memory upgrades please contact our website
www.spectrum-instrumentation.com. You will also find the current driver package with the latest bug fixes and new features on our site.
Please read this manual carefully before you install any hardware or software. Spectrum is not responsible
for any hardware failures resulting from incorrect usage.
Overview
M2p cards for PCI Express (PCIe)
General Information
The M2p.59xx series allows recording of up to 8 channels in the low, medium and high speed segment. Due to the modular design a wide
variety of 16 bit A/D converter boards PCI Express (PCIe) bus can be offered. These boards are available in several versions and different
speed grades making it possible for the user to find a individual solution.
The multi-purpose lines allow for up to 3 digital inputs to be acquired synchronously with the analog data, that can be used for reference
marker inputs or mixed-signal application. Two options (-DigFX2 or DigSMB) allow the use of sixteen additional digital inputs.
These boards can be used with maximum sample rates of up to 5 MS/s, 20 MS/s, 40 MS/s, 80 MS/s or 125 MS/s using either one, two,
four or eight single-ended (SE) channels or one, two or four differential channels. The installed memory of 512 GSample will be used for fast
data recording. It can completely be used by the current active channels. If using either slower sample rates or less active channels the memory
can be switched to a FIFO buffer and data will be transferred online to the PC memory or to hard disk.
Several boards of the M2p.xxxx series may be connected together by the internal standard synchronisation bus to work with the same time
base.
Application examples: Laboratory equipment, Super-sonics, LDA/PDA, Radar, Spectroscopy.
Summary of Contents for M2p.59 Series
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