PX1500-2 – 1.5 GS/s 2 Channel or 3.0 GS/s 1 Channel, 8 bit, PCIe x8, High Speed Digitizer Board

*Note: Legacy Product Model

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The PX1500-2 is a two channel waveform capture board that can acquire up to 1.5 GS/s on each channel, or up to 3 GS/s for single channel operation when ADC data is interleaved. The PX1500-2 analog front end is hardware configured to use either a transformer coupled front end or an amplifier connection. The transformer connection can only be set for an AC-coupled input configuration and has a signal frequency capture range of 5 MHz to 2 GHz. The amplifier connection can be set for either AC or DC-coupled input configuration with a signal frequency capture range up to 1 GHz.

The PX1500-2 is designed to maximize the quality of the captured signal in terms of signal-to-noise ratio and spurious-free dynamic range over a very wide frequency range. For this reason, there are no switch components in the analog signal path or bandwidth limiting programmable gain amplifiers; giving customers the benefit of a nearly direct path to the ADC from either the amplifier or transformer coupled input.

A frequency synthesized clock allows the ADC sampling rate to be set to virtually any value from 200 MHz to 1.5 GHz, offering maximum flexibility for sampling rate selection. This frequency selection flexibility comes at no cost to the acquisition clock quality/performance when locked to either the onboard 10 MHz, ±5 PPM reference clock or to an externally provided 10 MHz reference clock. The ADC may also be clocked from an external clock source.

The PX1500-2 has a total of 1 GB memory for onboard sample data storage. Alternatively, PCIe Buffered Acquisition mode utilizes the onboard RAM as a FIFO to provide non-stop continuous acquisition and streaming of sample data to the host PC via the PCIe interface. With PCIe Buffered Acquisition mode, the PX1500-2 can sustain up to a maximum 1.4 GB/s data streaming rate over its PCIe Gen1 x8 interface to the host PC for real-time high-speed processing and/or data recordings.

Up to five PX1500-2 digitizers can be setup for synchronous acquisition operations for a total of 10 input channels by utilizing the separate Signatec SYNC1500 clock/trigger driver source card.

A Windows oscilloscope program, the PX1500 Scope App, allows the operator to view/edit all digitizer hardware settings as well as record and display acquisition data. It is included along with a full complete C SDK for custom application development.


Product Specifications


Product: PX1500-2 Full Data Sheet
Update: Revision 1.8 - 08/31/2015
File Size: 587 KB



External Signal Connections
     Analog Inputs (2): SMA
     Clock Input: SMA
     Trigger Input: SMA
     Digital Input / Output: SMA
 
Analog Inputs – Amplifier Front End
     Full Scale Voltage Range: 500mV peak-peak
     Impedance: 50 ohms
     Bandwidth: 1 MHz to 1 GHz (AC-Coupled)
DC to 1 GHz (DC-Coupled)
     SNR (dc-500 MHz): 42 dB
     SFDR (1-500 MHz): 53 dB
 
Analog Inputs – Transformer Front End
     Full Scale Input Voltage Range: 700mV peak-peak
     Impedance: 50 ohms
     Bandwidth: 5 MHz to 2 GHz (AC-Coupled)
     SNR (dc-500 MHz):
             (@ 1000 MHz):
             (@ 1500 MHz):		 44 dB
42 dB
40 dB
     SFDR (5-1000 MHz):
                (@ 1500 MHz):		 55 dB
48 dB
 
External Trigger
     Signal Type: LVPECL (3.3V Logic)
     Impedance: 50 ohms to +1.3V
 
Internal Synthesized Clock
     Frequency Range: 200 MHz to 1.5 GHz
     Resolution: better than ±62.5 PPM
     Accuracy: better than ±5 PPM
 
External Clock
     Signal Type: sine wave or square wave
     Coupling: AC
     Impedance: 50 ohms
     Termination: Ground or +1.3V
     Frequency: 200 MHz to 1.5 GHz
     Amplitude: 800mV (-300/+1200)
     Clock Dividers: 1 to 7
 
Post ADC Clock Divider
     Divider Settings: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32
 
Reference Clock
     Internal: 10 MHz, ±5 PPM max.
     External: 10 MHz, ±50 PPM max (required for lock)
 
Digital Input / Output
     Type: TTL Logic Level (standard)
     Max. Frequency: 200 MHz
     Connection: 100 ohms to FPGA I/O
     Output Modes: 0V, Synchronized Trigger, ADC Clock ÷ 2, 3.3V
     Input Modes: Digital pulse for timestamp request
 
Trigger Modes
     Post Trigger: single start trigger fills active memory
     Segmented: start trigger for each memory segment
 
Trigger Options
     Pre-trigger Samples: samples prior to trigger are stored; 16k max.; total all channels
     Trigger Delay Samples: delay from trigger to data storage; Up to 64k digitizer clock cycles max.
 
Memory
     Total Size: 1 GB
     Segment Size: Up to 512 Megasamples
     Segment Re-Arm Time: 150 nanoseconds
     Addressing: DMA transfers from starting address
 
Power Requirements
     +3.3V: 3.3 Amps max.
     +12V: 1.0 Amps max.
 
Absolute Maximum Ratings
     Analog Inputs: ±3.5V
     Trigger Input: -0.2V to +4V DC
     Clock Input: 5V peak-to-peak
     Operating Temperature: +32 to +122F / 0 to +50C
     Storage Temperature: -4 to +158F / -20 to +70C
     Operating Relative Humidity: 10% to 90%, non-condensing
     Operating Vibration: 0.25 G, 5 Hz to 500 Hz
     Operating Shock: 2.5 G, 11 ms, 1/2 sine
     Board Dimensions: 5.0" L x 4.3" H x 0.75" W /
127 mm L x 109.22 mm H x 19.05 mm W
     Regulatory Information: RoHS Compliant