
Product:
DN2.336-02
12 bit ultra high-speed digitizer
Description:
The digitizerNETBOX DN2.33x series allows recording of one or twochannels with sampling rates of 3.2 GS/s up to 10 GS/s. These products offer outstanding A/D features in resolution, bandwidth and speed as a remote instrument. The powerful A/D amplifier section offers four different input ranges and a bandwidth of up to 4.7 GHz
Facts & Features:
- 10.0 GS/s on one channel
- 5.0 GS/s on 2 channels
- 4.7 GHz bandwidth
- 4 input ranges: ±200 mV up to ±2.5 V
- 2 GSamples (4 GByte) on-board memory
- 8 GSamples (16 GByte) optional on-board memory
- Complete calibration circuit integrated
- High resolution digitizer with high bandwidth
- GBit Ethernet/LXI compatible instrument
- Easy connectivity with BNC/SMA connections
- SBench 6 Professional included
- Direct remote access from Workstations or Laptops
- Simple integration into the factory LAN
Application examples:
- Mobile and/or shared data acquisition
- Remote controlled digitizer at experiment
- Component of LXI test system

FIFO mode
The FIFO mode is designed for continuous data transfer between the digitizerNETBOX and the host PC. The transfer speed is depending on the Ethernet connection between box and host and is in the region of 40 MB/s to 60 MB/s. The control of the data stream is done automatically by the driver on interrupt request. The complete installed on-board memory is used for buffer data, making the continuous streaming extremely reliable.


The digitizer allow to optionally reduce the resolution of the A/D samples from their native resolution down to 8 bit resolution, such that each sample will only occupy one byte in memory instead of the standard two bytes required. This does not only allow to store douple the amount of samples in the on-board memory, but also reduces the required bandwidth over the PCIe bus by half and also to the storage
devices, such as SSD or HDD. Using this mode much higer streaing speeds are reachable.

The digitizer allows to use a 12-bit packed mode where two 12-bit samples are stored in three bytes. This reduces needed data bandwidth while fully containing the full ADC resolution of 12-bit. Memory usage is reduced by 25% as well as data transfer bandwidth, allowing to continuosuly stream data faster.

Digital Pulse Generator Option (Optional)
The digital pulse generator option adds four internal independent pulse generators with programmable duty cycle, output frequency, delay and number of loops. These pulse generators can be triggered by software, hardware trigger or can trigger each other allowing to form complex pulse schemes to drive external equipment or experiments. The pulse generators can be outputted on the existing multi-XIO lines or can be used to trigger the instrument internally. Time resolution of the pulse generator depends on the cards type and the selected sampling rate and can be found in the technical data section.

Channel Trigger
The data acquisition boards offer a wide variety of trigger modes. Besides the standard signal checking for level and edge as known from oscilloscopes it's also possible to define a window trigger. Trigger conditions can be combined with logical conjunctions like OR to adopt to different application scenarios.

External Trigger
All boards can be triggered using a separate external trigger signal with programmable comparator. In addition all multi-purpose I/O lines can be used as additional digital trigger sources. It's possible to use positive or negative edge. An internally recognized trigger event can - when activated by software - be routed to a multi-purpose I/O connector to start external instruments.


Timestamp
The timestamp option writes the time positions of the trigger events in an extra memory. The timestamps are relative to the start of recording, a defined zero time, externally synchronized to a radio clock, or a GPS receiver. With this option acquisitions of systems on different locations can be set in a precise time relation.
High Precision PLL
The internal sampling clock of the card is generated using a high precision PLL. This powerful device allows to select the sampling rate with a fine step size making it possible to perfectly adopt to different measurement tasks. Most other cards on the market only allow the setup of fixed sampling rates like 100 MS/s, 50 MS/s, 25 MS/s, 10 MS/s, ... without any possibility to set the sampling rate to any value in between.
Reference Clock
The option to use a precise external reference clock (normally 10 MHz) is necessary to synchronize the board for high-quality measurements with external equipment (like a signal source). It's also possible to enhance the quality of the sampling clock in this way. The driver automatically generates the requested sampling clock from the fed in reference clock.
On-board Calibration
The on-board calibration can be run on user request and calibrates the amplifier against a dedicated internal high precision calibration source. After this calibration data is stored permanently in an on-board EEPROM and is automatically used for further acquisitions.

Programmable Input Amplifiers
The analog inputs can be adapted to real world signals using a wide variety of settings that are individual for each channel. By using software commands the input termination can be changed between 50 Ohm and 1 MOhm and one can select an input range matching the real world signal.

Selectable Low Pass Filter
Each analog channel contains a software selectable low-pass filter to limit the input bandwidth. Reducing the analog input bandwidth results in a lower total noise and can be usefull especially with low voltage input signals.
Multi Purpose I/O
All M5i cards offer four universal multi-purpose I/O lines, which can be separately programmed as either input or output. The termination can be programm individually to 50 ohm or kOhm. The I/O lines can be used as additional synchronous digital inputs, as asynchronous digital I/O or to output card status signals like trigger-armed or to output the trigger to synchronize external equipment.



Remote Access
The digitizerNETBOX can be remotely accessed from any current Windows (starting with Windows XP) 32 bit or 64 bit system or Linux (starting with Kernel 2.6) 32 bit or 64 bit system by Ethernet. The remote access is done in the very exact programming like a locally installed product allowing to use any of the supported software packages.
Product | Channels | Max. Samplerate | Max. Bandwidth |
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DN2.332-02 | 2 | 3.20 GS/s | 1 GHz |
DN2.335-01 | 1 | 10 GS/s | 3 GHz |
DN2.333-01 | 1 | 6.40 GS/s | 2 GHz |
DN2.336-01 | 1 | 10 GS/s | 4.70 GHz |
DN2.333-02 | 2 | 6.40 GS/s | 2 GHz |
DN2.335-02 | 2 | 10 GS/s | 3 GHz |
On different platforms | Bus | Max. Bus Transfer speed |
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M5i.3367-x16 | PCI Express x16 | 12000 MByte/s |


Documents
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Data sheet of digitizerNETBOX DN2.33x |
25.04.2025 | 995 K | |
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Short Manual for IVI Driver |
21.02.2022 | 532 K | |
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Data sheet of SBench 6 |
15.01.2024 | 999 K | |
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Manual for MATLAB driver M2p/M4i/M4x/M5i/M2i/M3i/DN2/DN6 |
13.12.2023 | 1 M | |
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Manual for LabVIEW drivers for M2i/DN2 |
21.02.2022 | 2 M | |
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Manual for SBench 6 |
21.02.2022 | 7 M |
WINDOWS DRIVER + SOFTWARE
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M2p/M4i/M4x/M5i/M2i/M3i/DN2/DN6 driver for Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 (32/64 bit) |
7.06 | 25.04.2025 | 5 M |
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C/C++ driver header and library files |
7.06 | 25.04.2025 | 45 K |
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Spectrum Control Center (32-bit) / Windows 7, 8, 10 |
2.40 | 25.04.2025 | 24 M |
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Spectrum Control Center (64-bit) / Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 |
2.40 | 25.04.2025 | 37 M |
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Spectrum Control Center - last Version for Windows XP |
1.74 | 21.02.2022 | 8 M |
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SBench 6 (32-bit) Installer / Windows 7, 8, 10 |
6.5.11 | 25.04.2025 | 31 M |
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SBench 6 (64-bit) Installer / Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 |
6.5.11 | 25.04.2025 | 44 M |
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SBench6 - last Version for Windows XP |
6.3.5 | 21.02.2022 | 41 M |
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M2i/M2p/M3i/M4i/M4x/M5i/DN2/DN6 LabView driver installer |
25.04.2025 | 20 M | |
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M2p/M4i/M4x/M5i/M2i/M3i/DN2/DN6 Matlab driver + examples installer |
25.04.2025 | 25 M | |
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Windows Examples (C/C++, .NET, Delphi, Java, Python, Julia ...) |
7.05 | 25.04.2025 | 2 M |
LINUX DRIVER + SOFTWARE
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Driver libraries (no Kernel) for Linux 32 bit and 64 bit |
7.06 | 25.04.2025 | 10 M |
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Spectrum Control Center |
2.40 | 25.04.2025 | 27 M |
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SBench 6 Linux 32 (.rpm) |
6.5.08 | 22.04.2024 | 26 M |
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SBench 6 Linux 64 (.rpm) |
6.5.11 | 25.04.2025 | 16 M |
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SBench 6 Linux 32 (.deb) |
6.5.08 | 22.04.2024 | 23 M |
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SBench 6 Linux 64 (.deb) |
6.5.11 | 25.04.2025 | 16 M |
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SBench6 Jetson (.deb) |
6.5.11 | 25.04.2025 | 15 M |
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Drivers + examples for MATLAB for Linux (DEB + RPM) |
25.04.2025 | 156 K | |
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Linux Examples (C/C++, Python, Julia ...) |
7.05 | 25.04.2025 | 445 K |
Firmware
DN2 Standard Firmware V27 (update from versions V7-V26 to V27) |
V27 | 21.02.2022 | 52 M | |
DN2 Standard Firmware V7 (update from versions V1-V6 to V7) |
V7 | 21.02.2022 | 11 M | |
DN2/DN6 Standard Firmware (install V27 first for updates prior to V27) |
V88 | 25.04.2025 | 48 M |
Product Notes
Trigger and Sync | Trigger, Clock and Synchronization Details at high-speed Digitizers |
21.02.2022 | 1 M | |
Digitizer Software Integration | Software Support for Modular Digitizers |
21.02.2022 | 724 K | |
LXI based Digitizers | LXI based Multi-channel Digitizer Instrument |
21.02.2022 | 739 K | |
SBench 6 Introduction | SBench 6 - Data Acquisition and Analysis of Digitizer Data |
21.02.2022 | 1 M |
Application Notes
Teaming AWG with Digitizer | Teaming an Arbitrary Waveform Generator with a Modular Digitizer |
21.02.2022 | 919 K |