Agilent M9703A digitiser

The high-speed M9703A digitiser, said to be the industry’s first 8-channel, 12-bit device that complies with the AXIe open standard. The AXIe digitiser is designed for use in large-scale applied physics applications.

It can be used in large-scale system configurations that pack 40 channels within a single 4U M9505A AXIe chassis or 80 channels into 8U of rack-mount space giving it twice the channel density of comparable solutions.

This makes the device suitable for experiments in particle physics, nuclear fusion, hydrodynamics and microwave radio astronomy.

It is a single-slot AXIe module with 4- or 8-channel acquisition capability running at 1 to 3.2 GSa/s. It can provide more than 1 GHz of instant analog bandwidth and enables long acquisitions with its onboard memory of up to 4 GB.

The module provides a four-lane PCI Express Gen 2 backplane, enabling sustained data transfer rates of up to 1 GBps.

With four onboard Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs, the M9703A also optimises measurement throughput and supports future implementations of high-performance data processing.

It is compliant with the AXIe and AdvancedTCA standards and, designed to benefit from fast data interfaces, the module can be plugged into AXIe or AdvancedTCA chassis slots.