The PC data acquisition cards M2i.20xx series from Spectrum having four models from 50 MS/s up to 200 MS/s. With two or four synchronous channels the series is based on the universal M2i base of the company. The cards are compatible to PCI and PCI-X slots as well as 3.3 V and 5 V I/O voltage. Used together with the Multiple Recording Option the card is a solution for all applications needing fast repetition rates. Cards of the M2i.20xx series can be used in the application field of Radar, Sonar, Ultrasound or Medical equipment.
The option Multiple Recording allows the acquisition of trigger events with a high repetition rate without the need to restart the hardware in between. A dead time of less than 4 clock cycles between two events makes sure that no event gets lost. Segment size, pretrigger and posttrigger can be freely programmed with a stepsize of 4. In addition it is possible to program a trigger delay in case that the area of interest is located behind the trigger event. Trigger source can be an external trigger event or one or even several combined channel trigger events.
Each channel has its own trigger detection with level, edge, re-arm, window and steepness trigger. All cards of the M2i series can be ordered together with the BaseXIO extension as a special option. This option allows the conjunction of multiple external trigger sources with AND and/or OR masks allowing to implement video triggers or gated trigger detection. All acquired data is written into the on-board memory that is starting with 64 MBytes size in the standard version. This memory, that can be upgraded up to 4 GBytes, can be completely used as a FIFO buffer. Using this FIFO mode it is possible to do continuous data streaming into the PC memory as long as the average amount of data won’t exceed the maximum available transfer speed of 225 MB/s (PCI-X) or 115 MB/s (PCI).
The cards of the M2i series are delivered with drivers for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP64 and Linux as well as several programming examples. As an option a huge variety of third-party products like LabVIEW, LabWindows, MATLAB, VEE, DASYLab or MS Excel is supported.
