Introduction - Spectrum digitizerNETBOX DN2.44 Series Hardware Manual

Introduction

Introduction
Preface
This manual provides detailed information on the hardware features of your Spectrum instrument. This information includes technical data,
specifications, block diagrams and a connector description.
In addition, this guide takes you through the process of installing and recognizing your hardware 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 hardware and the related driver. The reader of this manual
will be able to control the instrument from any PC system with one of the supported operating systems and one of the supported operating
software packages.
Please note that this manual provides no description for specific driver parts such as those for IVI, LabVIEW or MATLAB. These drivers manuals
are available on CD 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.
General Information
The DN2.44x series allows recording of up to 8 channels and the DN6.44x series even up to 24 channels in the high speed high resolution
segment. Due to the proven design a wide variety of 14 and 16 bit digitizerNETBOX products can be offered. These products are available
in several versions and different speed grades making it possible for the user to find a individual solution.
The digitizerNETBOX products can be used with maximum sample rates of up to 130 MS/s, 250 MS/s or 500 MS/s using either two, four
or eight (SE) channels with the DN2.44xx models and with 12, 16, 20 and 24 (SE) channels using the DN6.44x models. The installed mem-
ory up to 4 GSample per DN2 digitizer unit or up to 12 GSample per DN6 digitizer unit will be used for fast data recording and can com-
pletely be used by the current active channels. If using slower sample rates the memory can be switched to a FIFO buffer and data will be
transferred online over Ethernet to the PC memory or to hard disk.
Application examples: Laboratory equipment, Super-sonics, LDA/PDA, Radar, Spectroscopy.
digitizerNETBOX Overview
The series of digitizerNETBOX products are remote powerful digitizer instru-
ments with GBit Ethernet connection following the LXI Core 2011 standard. The
proven internal digitizer modules, a stable chassis, an embedded remote con-
troller, sufficient air cooling and standard BNC connectors form an unique in-
strument that opens a lot of new application areas.
The digitizerNETBOX can be either directly connected to a PC or Laptop or it
can be connected to a company/institute LAN and can be accessed from any
PC within that LAN. Using the digitizerNETBOX offers the following benefits and
new possibilities compared to digitizer plug-in cards:
• Use a powerful digitizer without opening the PC and without mounting hard-
ware inside the PC.
• Share the digitizer within a group of engineers that only need the instrument
from time to time.
• Place the digitizer directly near the signal sources and control it remotely from the desk.
• Use the instrument at different location without moving a complete system. One just needs the digitizerNETBOX, a few cables and a Lap-
top.
• Use the digitizer as s mobile data acquisition device with the DC power option (DN2.xxx only).
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