Test & Measurement: Reconfigurable Analyzer Makes Dual-, Single-Channel Sampling A Snap

Feb. 17, 2005
Dual- and single-channel 6U CompactPCI capability that captures and performs synchronous real-time signal analysis at up to 2 Gsamples/s--that's what's behind the AC240 and AC210 analyzer platforms. They're well suited for signal-intelligence, radar, and

Dual- and single-channel 6U CompactPCI capability that captures and performs synchronous real-time signal analysis at up to 2 Gsamples/s--that's what's behind the AC240 and AC210 analyzer platforms. They're well suited for signal-intelligence, radar, and lidar applications. Each has a reconfigurable data-processing unit (a Virtex II Pro 70 FPGA) and a 1-GHz bandwidth front end. The 240 has two synchronous 1-Gsample/s channels that can be interleaved for single-channel applications, doubling the sampling rate to 2 Gsamples/s. The 210 has one 1-Gsample/s channel. Pricing starts at $18,990. Delivery is within four weeks.

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Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.

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