PCI oscilloscopes

The PCI-5152 general-purpose digitiser converts a desktop PC into a full-featured oscilloscope. It offers a 2 GS/s real-time sampling rate on one channel or a 1 GS/s real-time sampling rate on two simultaneous channels. For repetitive signals, the module features an equivalent-time sampling (ETS) mode to sample at up to 20 GS/s.

The board features 300 MHz bandwidth and ranges from 100 mV to 10 V with 50 and 1 M software-selectable input impedance. Engineers can customise the NI PCI-5152 digitiser through software to perform user-defined measurements in application areas including semiconductor chip characterisation, ultrasonic nondestructive test (NDT), optical coherence tomography (OCT) and mass spectroscopy.

The PCI-5015 eight-channel, 60 MS/s, 12 bit data acquisition board increases system channel density while lowering test costs. With picosecond-level synchronisation accuracy among multiple modules, the device is suitable for building high-channel-count systems in application areas such as linear and phased-array ultrasonic NDT.

The driver features more than 50 built-in measurement and analysis functions for time and frequency domain applications.