The makers of Spinstand Guzik Technical Enterprises today announced the availability of their new
WDM 5044 Waveform Digitizer, which provides up to 6 GHz waveform capture and
analysis bandwidth in a display-less rack-mounted format. This digitizer
addresses demanding ATE and OEM applications in avionics, military
electronics, physics, astronomy, semiconductors, and a variety of other
disciplines.
Guzik has been providing high bandwidth test solutions for over 25 years
to the data storage industry for demanding head and media characterization,
and now makes this waveform capture and analysis expertise available for a
wider variety of applications. Besides the industry-leading acquisition
system at the core of the WDM 5000 family, the product features up to 2
Gpoint waveform memory on each channel combined with customizable hardware
parametric processing. The WDM 5044 provides 4 GHz bandwidth in 4 channel
mode and 6 GHz bandwidth in 2 channel mode. In order to facilitate the
fastest possible waveform transfer back to the host computer, the WDM 5044
utilizes a high speed PCI Express cabled interface.
Customers can work with Guzik to develop custom measurement algorithms
specific to their application and have them built directly into to the WDM
5044's FPGA-based processing engine, increasing throughput and offloading
complex waveform processing tasks from the host processor to the instrument's
digital processor.
"Current modular and rack-mount digitizers aimed at data acquisition in
systems typically offer significantly lower performance, and oscilloscopes
used in these applications are expensive and provide un-used functionality.
The WDM 5000 Series was designed to provide high performance waveform
acquisition with a small footprint at a low cost relative to alternative
approaches. It features industry-leading waveform capture memory combined
with a high powered FPGA-based processing engine," said company founder and
CEO Dr. Nahum Guzik.
The WDM 5044 sells for US$69,000 and is available for shipment
immediately. It is the first member of a new family of high performance
modular instruments from Guzik. It includes the WDM 5000 Signal Explorer
software utility providing control, display and waveform export capability.
In addition, Matlab drivers are provided.
