Spectrum LXI-based digitiserNETBOX series

Spectrum has extended its digitiserNETBOX series of LXI-based instruments and released eight new models. Available with two, four or eight fully synchronous channels, the new units feature sampling rates up to 5 GS/s, bandwidth in excess of 1.5 GHz and onboard acquisition memory up to 8 GS. The unique combination makes the digitisers suitable for capturing long complex high-frequency signals and for characterising fast timing events that go down to the nanosecond and sub-nanosecond ranges.

Fully LXI compliant, the digitiserNETBOX products enable remote control and data transfer over fast Gigabit Ethernet. Connect them directly to a Notebook or PC, or in fact to anywhere on a company LAN, and automated data acquisition becomes easy. Offering significant advantages in measurement speed, flexibility, size and channel density, the products can be used to replace conventional bench instruments such as oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers, multimeters, counters, timers and older generation digitiser products.

The digitiserNETBOX instruments include Spectrum’s powerful SBench 6 software that enables full instrument control, graphical display, data storage and analysis. The program offers both oscilloscope and transient recording modes, including continuous data streaming. A special feature of SBench 6 is the segmented acquisition view, which is suitable for capturing burst type signals together with all the associated trigger time-stamping information. SBench 6 can be used to measure parameters, perform FFTs and run a variety of different math and processing functions such as filtering, averaging and histograms. Data can be exported into a number of formats such as ASCII, Wave and MATLAB, making it easy to use the digitiserNETBOX products with a variety of third-party software tools.