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Specialists in high performance computer based signal capture-measurement systems & waveform generators
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High speed instrumentation cards for the PC and PXI/cPCI chassis. Signal capture generation and digital I/O, CLICK LINKS ON LEFT FOR MORE INFORMATION! Look to Dataquest Solutions as suppliers of leading edge technology where your requirements are for high speed and ultra high speed signal capture, measurement, signal generation and digital I/0. As the primary SPECTRUM PC instrumentation card specialist for the U.K. we provide hardware suitable for both desktop and industrial rack, with the following features:-
  • Signal capture with speeds up to 1 Giga samples per second.
    Digitise & record to on-board memory or to the PC with up to 16 bits resolution.
  • Waveform generation to 125 million samples per second.
  • Digital pattern generation and sensing to 125 million samples per second.
  • Simultaneous signal sample and hold across multiple channels.
  • Multiple board synchronisation.
  • Synchronise any card combination.
  • PCI-Express, PCI/PCI-X, Compact PCI and PXI connectivity.
  • A wide range of software driver options for code and popular graphical programming packages.
  • All M2i and M3i series come with a memory expandable to 4GBytes!

Link to news on new delivery structure Spectrum PC instrumentation cards enhancement options (such as trigger timestamp and gated sampling) are now included as standard, Labview and MATLAB drivers too! Memory doubled to 512Bytes, with larger capacitiy options available. Click here for further details!

Require PC and instrumentation portability?

Rugged portable systems
Where portability is required a number of quality solutions are available:-

  • Rugged portable carry-case computers for industrial and field use.
  • Portable Docking Stations interfacing PCI and PCI Express cards. to the notebook PC.
    Utilises the ExpressCard and PCMCIA connection. AC or DC operation.
These are ideal for mobile acquisition requirements/system designs


Software support is well developed and extensive for all Spectrum instrumentation, for both Windows™ and Linux™.
  • Drivers for C/C++, Delphi™, Visual Basic™, Matlab™, Labview™, Dasylab™, Agilent VEE™ and LabWindows/CVI™.
  • Example programs available.
  • SBench™ visualisation and analysis software is provided free of charge with all Spectrum instrumentation hardware!
  SBench6 logging, display and processing software: Click here for more information on this and other programming drivers
 SBench6

Links to informative application notes

i)    A guide to the methodology of very high speed signal capture and generation.
ii)   A glossary of signal amplifier design terms and related theory.
iii)  The high speed transfer of signal data with RAID hard drive systems.
iv)  Environmental considerations for rugged portable computers.

+ + + Click below for latest product news! + + +

January      Enhancement options now included with all Spectrum instrumentstion cards!
March        PXI format multi-channel 16 bit 50 MSample/sec A/D converter card now available!
May           New DigitiserNETBOX provides a compact Ethernet enclosure for Spectrum cards.

Please browse our Web site for more information on our extensive range of instrumentation


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Signal capture (A/D) cards
 
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Portable systems
 
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Radar card, link to technical description
M2i Radar capture card
High gain/bandwidth amplifer module - link to technical description
High bandwidth amplifier modules
LitePAC slim portable PC - link to more information
The slim LitePAC portable PC
 
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