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PROTON-SPDAU

PROTON-SPDAU

… a high speed data acquisition system with high storage capacity designed to be used as recorder/processor of wide bandwidth long transient signals. It integrates an automated averaging engine for multiple measurements up to 300ms long with a sampling frequency of 400MHz.

System resources can be controlled/accessed remotely via ethernet by means of a windows dynamic library spdaulib.dll encapsulates all communication routines to program the system from standard software like MATLAB and  LabView, or open source scripting environments like OCTAVE and PYTHON. Additionally, an embedded operating system provides integrated GUI on a QVGA RGB display.

Flexible and versatile hardware/Software allows the system to be transformed into a custom product with low effort. Application development may be based on a mixture of embedded C , Python scripting and HDL.  C language and PYTHON targeted for embedded Linux running 500MHz ARM processor integrated in PROTON-SPDAU. Prefered HDL targeted for three diferent Xilinx FPGA dynamically programmable via Xilinx Select Map mode.

Features

 

  • 1xADC 14bits@400MHz sampling frequency.
  • 1xADC 20bits@100Hz sampling frequency.
  • 2xDAC 14Bit@200MHz conversion rate.
  • 2 x programmable DC outputs (14 bit resolution).
  • Real Time Bandwidth limiter via programmable 40-pole FIR filter on high speed input data stream.
  • Embedded user interface for system control and signal monitoring.
  • 5 ns trigger accuracy between captures on external input trigger.
  • Integrated FPGA-based signal capture averaging functionality with up to 4095 signal cycles.
  • Integrated FPGA-based FIR block . User programmable up to 1023 taps and decimation factor.
  • Integrated FIR filter design tool.
  • Free access to coefficient memory so the user can define their own filter coefficients (18 bits resolution).
  • 4x digital output signals.Trigger-able.
  • 4x digital input signals. Trigger-able.
  • Integrated oscilloscope function on DVI standard VESA monitor (1280×1024 resolution).
  • Integrated DDS functionality on Analog and digital signals, fixed or arbitrary generation mode.
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    Oscilloscope window on DVI