Digitizers

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Agilent Digitizers lead the market in performance and breadth of offering.

Analog-to-Digital Converters

• High Speed Digitizers provide a range of 500 MS/s, 1 GS/s, 2 GS/s, 4 GS/s and 8 GS/s high-speed digitizer cards with 8-, 10- and 12-bit resolution, wide bandwidths and large acquisition memories. These products, in PCI, PXI, cPCI, and VME formats, are used in research, ATE and OEM applications in industries as wide spread as Biotechnology, Semiconductors, Aerospace, Physics, and Astronomy.
  
• Oscilloscope/Digitizers provide cutting edge sample rates, leveraged directly from Agilent’s highest performance oscilloscopes. These products offer 40GSa/s digitizing rates with 8 bit resolution in 8 GHz, 12 GHz and 13 GHz bandwidths. Eight channels are housed in a 7U high 19” rack package which retains full oscilloscope capability. This class of oscilloscope/digitizers allows research scientists the flexibility to either directly access the oscilloscope for measurement results or to transfer the data offline for custom analysis.
• High Resolution Digitizers provide mid-range sample rates that compliment instruments in test systems such as DMMs, function generators, switch systems and counters. The digitizers provide high resolution for accurate waveform acquisition and on-board measurements in a new stand-alone LXI format. These digitizers are used in Automotive, Aerospace/Defense, Medical and Electronic Test applications.
  
• U2500A Series USB Simultaneous Sampling Multifunction Data Acquisition gives you the choice and flexibility to create standalone or modular solutions that expand and evolve according to your test requirement needs. These modules provide 250 KS/s up to 2 MS/s with additional Analog Output and Digital IO functionality that is simple enough for academic application and yet robust and versatile enough for industrial laboratory applications.

Digitizers represent continuous time or analog signal as a discrete set of points. Computers can then manipulate this digital representation. Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADC or A-to-D) can convert continuous analog signals to discrete digital data. Time-to-Digital conversion (TDC) outputs the arrival time of typically infrequent events where measuring a pulse or time interval is critical.

Time-to-Digital Converters

• Agilent offers TDC products that are ideal for applications where high timing resolution (to 5 picosecond) and precision are required, such as in large-scale physics experiments, including hydrodynamics, explosive testing, particle accelerator timing and nuclear fusion studies. Applications are also found in Time Domain Transmission Reflectometry in wide band, satellite and fiber-optics communications as well as in time-of-flight measurements in nuclear and life science mass spectrometry and 3D mapping using Lidar/Radar.
• Acqiris Twelve-channel CompactPCI Time-to-Digital Converter

Additional information:

• Using high-speed digitizers for Test and Measurement applications
• Using high-speed digitizers for Embedded OEM applications

Agilent’s High Speed, High Resolution, and USB Digitizers Brochure