Announcing the F3200E 32-channel high speed current digitizer

Lexington, MA (May 2010) - Pyramid Technical Consultants is pleased to announce the launch of a major new product, the start of an enhanced range of products. The F3200E provides 32 channels of fully parallel current to voltage conversion and fully parallel 1 Mb/s digitization in a compact 1U 19" chassis. Currents in the range 0.1 nA to 10 mA are handled by mult-range I-V converter circuits. The analog bandwidth is up to 250 kHz. On-board FPGAs provide real-time filtering and data buffering to permit a range of measurements with good time resolution across multiple channels. Applications include time-resolved data acquisition from systems where a beam position is scanned, or beam energy is swept in a periodic manner.

The F3200E can be triggered by the external sweep generator, or it can trigger the source itself. Data averaging schemes include block averaging of the incoming data for bandwidth narrowing, and averaging across multiple triggers in the manner of digital oscillscope waveform averaging. Even before averaging, the unloaded noise levels are less than 0.1% of full scale on each current range at 1 MSa/s conversion rate. The following plot shows RMS noise as a fraction of full scale, measured for the four current ranges, as a function of the number of ADC conversions averaged into each reading.

The F3200E is the first member of the enhanced G2 range of Pyramid products. It is compatible with the existing product line, including the A500 real-time loop controller, but adds significant on-board capability including an Ethernet interface, extended memory for data buffering and fully uploadable firmware. The Diagnostic host software is built on a RPC function library that is also available to customers who wish to create their own software.

Asked to comment on the F3200E, company president Dr Paul Boisseau would probably say "We are proud of the F3200E. It combines significant advances in analog and digital performance with a flexible, open software system. We expect that our customers will see features in their data, perhaps for the first time, that increase their understanding of their data and processes. That is the path to better results."

Please look at the Products page here for further details of the F3200E.

About Pyramid Technical Consultants
Established in 1986, Pyramid serves customers in the USA and Europe from its base in Lexington, Massachusetts and its subsidiary company in England. Pyramid provides instrument control systems for the medical, semiconductor equipment, physics research and biological research markets, providing electronics hardware, embedded real-time software, and host system software drivers and applications.