Continuing to upgrade its range of industry-leading solutions for
applications in high-frequency sonar, test and measurement and radar, ICS
Sensor Processing, part of Radstone Embedded Computing, has announced the
ICS-645B 32-channel high-speed data acquisition card.
Providing a new level of price/performance for the company's ICS-645 family,
the ICS-645B takes full advantage of the higher throughput capabilities of
PCI 2.2 with its 64-bit, 66 MHz interface, delivering four times the PCI
bandwidth capacity, while the FPDP II interface delivers two and a half
times (400 MBytes/second) the throughput of previous family members.
"The ICS-645 product line has led the market for high-speed acoustic ADC
boards since it was introduced," said Scott Hames, director of product
management, ICS. "The announcement of the ICS-645B brings leading-edge
performance to acoustic A/D applications while remaining highly affordable.
We believe our customers will agree that the ICS-645B represents outstanding
value for money."
With 32 single-ended input channels, simultaneously sampled (even in
multi-card systems) by high-speed oversampling ADCs (Analog Devices AD9260)
at sample rates up to 20 MSPS (million samples per second) and a
programmable clock source, the ICS-645B has been optimized to provide
effective, streamlined functionality in a single full length PCI card.
The ICS-645B addresses the challenge of moving data back to the host
processor or recorder by providing two high bandwidth data paths: the 64/66
PCI interface provides sustained aggregate data rates in excess of 300
MBytes/second, while the FPDP II port provides a dedicated connection to
collect data from multiple cards. 16 MBytes of onboard storage is provided,
allowing the ICS-645B to tolerate unpredictable interrupt latencies
encountered in non real-time operating systems, says the company.
