Product:
12 bit high speed digitizer
Description:
The high-performance M5i.33xx series gives outstanding performance with the combination of high resolution, high samplingrate, high bandwidth and the world fastest streaming speed for Digitizers.
On selected systems the card can stream continuously one channel with 6.4 GS/s and 12 bit resolution to CPU or GPU. The M5i series is based on the common API from Spectrum and uses the same software interface like all Spectrum products released since 2005
Facts & Features:
- 6.4 GS/s on one channel
- 2 GHz Bandwidth
- Simultaneously sampling on all channels
- Separate ADC and amplifier per channel
- 4 synchronous digital channels with multi-purpose I/O
- 2 GSample on-board memory as standard
- 8 GSample on-board memory as option
- PCI Express x16 Gen3 Interface
- Works with x16 PCIe Gen1 to Gen4 slots
- Sustained streaming speed card to PC up to 12.8 GB/s
- Direct data transfer to / from CUDA GPU using SCAPP
Product-Video:
Application examples:
- LIDAR or RADAR
- Fiber Optics
- Mass Spectroscopy
- RF Recording
FIFO mode
The FIFO mode is designed for continuous data transfer between measurement board and PC memory or hard disk. The read (acquisition) transfer rate reached depends on the motherboard and can be up to 12.8 GByte/s on a PCI Express x16 Gen3 slot with a TPD of 512. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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.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.
M5i.3321 Time Domain Optimization (Optional)
The option M5i.3321-inptd optimizes the input stage of the 2 x 3.2 GS/s 12 bit digitizer for time domain measurement with a modified filter characteristic to minimize overshoot, undershoot and ringing on step response.
This standard driver is included in the card delivery and it is possible to get the newest driver version free of charge from our homepage at any time. There are no additional SDK fees for the classical text-based programming. All boards are delivered with drivers for Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10 and Windows 11, all 32 bit and 64 bit.
Product | Channels | Max. Samplerate | Max. Bandwidth |
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M5i.3337-x16 | 2 | 6.40 GS/s | 2 GHz |
M5i.3321-x16 | 2 | 3.20 GS/s | 1 GHz |
M5i.3350-x16 | 1 | 10 GS/s | 3 GHz |
M5i.3357-x16 | 2 | 10 GS/s | 3 GHz |
M5i.3360-x16 | 1 | 10 GS/s | 4.70 GHz |
M5i.3367-x16 | 2 | 10 GS/s | 4.70 GHz |
Streaming Systems (Optional)
Combining a number of Spectrum M2p/M2i/M3i/M4i/M5i PCIe digitizers with a Tera-Store Data Streaming solution allows the capture and storage of long complex signals for extended periods of time. With systems available offering from 1 to 32 TB of storage and streaming rates up to 3 GB/s signals can be digitized and stored seamlessly for hours on end.
Documents
Signal Processing | Signal Processing fro Digitizers |
21.02.2022 | 1 M | |
M5i.33xx Datasheet | Data sheet of the M5i.33xx series |
05.12.2024 | 2 M | |
M5i.33xx Manual | Manual of M5i.33xx family |
23.09.2024 | 12 M |
WINDOWS DRIVER + SOFTWARE
Driver Win7/8/10/11 | M2p/M4i/M4x/M5i/M2i/M3i/DN2/DN6 driver for Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 (32/64 bit) |
7.04 | 25.10.2024 | 5 M |
c_header | C/C++ driver header and library files |
7.04 | 25.10.2024 | 44 K |
Control Center (32-bit) | Spectrum Control Center (32-bit) / Windows 7, 8, 10 |
2.38 | 25.10.2024 | 24 M |
Control Center (64-bit) | Spectrum Control Center (64-bit) / Windows 7, 8, 10, 11 |
2.38 | 25.10.2024 | 36 M |
Remote Server Windows | Windows Installer for Remote Server Option |
10.03.2021 | 13 M | |
IVI Digitizer | IVI Driver for IVI Digitizer class (32 bit) |
25.10.2024 | 3 M | |
IVI Scope | IVI Driver for IVI Scope class (32 bit) |
25.10.2024 | 3 M | |
LabView driver | M2i/M2p/M3i/M4i/M4x/M5i/DN2/DN6 LabView driver installer |
11.11.2024 | 20 M | |
Matlab driver | M2p/M4i/M4x/M5i/M2i/M3i/DN2/DN6 Matlab driver + examples installer |
11.11.2024 | 25 M | |
Examples for Windows | Windows Examples (C/C++, .NET, Delphi, Java, Python, Julia ...) |
7.04 | 25.10.2024 | 2 M |
LINUX DRIVER + SOFTWARE
Linux Driver Complete | M2p/M4i/M4x/M5i/M2i/M3i drivers (Kernel + Library) for Linux 32 bit and 64 bit |
7.04 | 25.10.2024 | 36 M |
Linux Driver Library | Driver libraries (no Kernel) for Linux 32 bit and 64 bit |
7.04 | 25.10.2024 | 9 M |
Remote Server Linux | Spectrum Remote Server Linux Installer Package |
11.03.2021 | 12 K | |
Control Center | Spectrum Control Center |
2.38 | 25.10.2024 | 21 M |
Examples for Linux | Linux Examples (C/C++, Python, Julia ...) |
7.04 | 25.10.2024 | 569 K |
Firmware
Firmware Update (Windows) | M2i/M2p/M3i/M4i/M4x/M5i firmware update (Windows) |
17.09.2024 | 24 M | |
Firmware Update (Linux) | M2i/M2p/M3i/M4i/M4x/M5i firmware update (Linux) |
17.09.2024 | 30 M |
Case Studies
OCT Skin Cancer Scanner | OCT application for skin cancer diagnosis |
21.02.2022 | 351 K | |
CS Mass Spectroscopy | Case Study: Digitizer in Mass Spectroscopy |
21.02.2022 | 533 K | |
CS Digitizer at Cern | Case Study: Digitizers and AWGs at Cerns LHC Beam Dumping System |
21.02.2022 | 532 K | |
CS Spectrum Digitizers at DESY | Case Study: Spectrum Digitizers playing vital role at DESY |
21.02.2022 | 982 K | |
CS DIAL - Differential Absorption LIDAR | Case Study DIAL - Differential Absorption LIDAR |
22.02.2022 | 2 M | |
CS Smithonian Spectrometer | Case Study: Groundbreaking microwave spectrometer for research of interstellar materials |
26.07.2022 | 371 K | |
CS MPI measuring Star Diameter | Max Planck Institute uses Spectrum's digitizer cards to measure diameters of distant stars |
26.07.2022 | 320 K | |
CS Atomic Force Microscope | Case Study: Atomic Force Microscope scanning surfaces |
27.07.2022 | 293 K |
Product Notes
General Digitizer Introduction | General Introduction to Waveform Digitizers |
21.02.2022 | 587 K | |
High-Res High BW Digitizers | Advantages of High Resolution in High Bandwidth Digitizers |
21.02.2022 | 2 M | |
Digitizer Acquisition Modes | Using modular Digitizer Acquisition Modes |
21.02.2022 | 3 M | |
Digitizer Front-End | Proper Use of Digitizer Front-End Signal Conditioning |
21.02.2022 | 3 M | |
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 |
Application Notes
Ultrasonic Applications | Using Digitizers in Ultrasonic Applications |
21.02.2022 | 617 K | |
RF Measurements | RF Measurements using a modular Digitizer |
21.02.2022 | 838 K | |
Signal Processing Tools | Using Signal Processing Tools to enhance Digitizer Data |
21.02.2022 | 1 M | |
Digitizers as Oscilloscope | Using a Digitizer as Oscilloscope |
21.02.2022 | 845 K | |
Solving Data Transfer Bottlenecks on Digitizers | Solving Data Transfer Bottlenecks on Digitizers |
21.02.2022 | 2 M | |
Teaming AWG with Digitizer | Teaming an Arbitrary Waveform Generator with a Modular Digitizer |
21.02.2022 | 919 K | |
Common Digitizer Setup Problems | Application Note: Common Digitizer Setup Problems to avoid |
21.02.2022 | 1 M | |
Mass Spectroscopy | Application Note Mass Spectroscopy |
21.02.2022 | 879 K | |
AN LIDAR Light Detection and Ranging | Application Note LIDAR - Light Detection and Ranging |
21.02.2022 | 528 K | |
AN Amplitude Resolution | Application Note: The Amplitude Resolution of Digitizers and how it affects Measurements |
21.02.2022 | 555 K | |
AN Radar Signal Acquisition | Application Note: Radar Signal Acquisition with Modular Digitizer |
21.02.2022 | 771 K | |
AN Dynamic Parameters and Digitizers | Application Note: Dynamic Parameters and Waveform Digitizers |
21.02.2022 | 711 K | |
AN Application examples for the ultrafast digitizers of the M5i.33xx series | Application examples for the ultrafast digitizers of the M5i.33xx series |
06.07.2023 | 1 M | |
AN M5i.33xx - New Features for Modular High-Speed Digitizer | M5i.33xx - New Features for Modular High-Speed Digitizer |
14.02.2024 | 823 K | |
AN M5i.33xx - Pulse Burst RF Measurements for NMR | AN M5i.33xx - Pulse Burst RF Measurements for NMR |
14.02.2024 | 668 K |
White Papers
Software block averaging | Using software based fast block averaging |
21.02.2022 | 649 K |