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National Instruments 12-Bit 200 MS/s Digitizer manual

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  • Page 1

    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 12-Bit 200 MS/s Digitizer This document lists the sp ecifications for the NI PX I/PCI-5124 (NI 5124) high-speed digitizer. Unless otherw ise noted, these specifications are valid for the following conditions: • All filter settings • All impedance selections • Sample clock set to 200 MS/s using onboard clock T yp[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 2 ni.com PFI 0 and PFI 1 (Programmabl e Function Interfac e, AUX Front Panel Connector) ................... .................... ................... .....20 TClk Specifications .............. .................... .................... ...................... .....21 Waveform Specifications ........... ..................[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 3 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Voltage Levels Full Scale (FS) Input Range and Programmable V ertical Offset 50 Ω 1M Ω — Range (V pk-pk ) V ertical Of fset Range (V) Range (V pk-pk ) V ertical Offs et Range (V) 0.2 ±0.1 0.2 ±0.1 0.4 ±0.2 0.4 ±0.2 1 ±0.5 1 ±0.5 2 ±1 2 ±1 4 ±2 4 ±2 10 0 10 ±5 20 0[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 4 ni.com DC Drift Range (V pk-pk ) 50 Ω and 1 M Ω — 0.2, 0.4, 1, and 2 ±(0.057% of Input + 0.006% of FS +1 0 0 μ V) per °C 4, 10, and 20 (1 M Ω only) ±(0.057% of Input + 0.006% of FS + 900 µV) per °C A C Amplitude Accuracy 50 Ω 1M Ω W ithin ±5 °C of self-calibration temperature ±0.06 dB (±0.7%) at 50 [...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 5 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Figure 1. NI 5124 Frequency Response (T ypical) A C Coupling Cutof f (–3 dB) 12 Hz A C coupling av ailable on 1M Ω only Passband Flatness Filter Settings Range (V pk-pk ) 50 Ω and 1 M Ω Referenced to 50 kHz Filters Off All ranges except 0.2 ±0.5 dB DC to 20 MHz ±1.0 dB 20[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 6 ni.com Specif ication Va l u e Comments Spectral Characteristics Spurious-Free Dynamic Range with Harmonics (SFDR) (Physical), T ypical Range (V pk-pk ) 50 Ω 1M Ω Filters of f or antialias filter on 10 MHz, –1 dBFS input signal Includes the 2nd through the 5th harmonics Measured from DC to 100 MHz on NI PXI-5124[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 7 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Intermodulation Distortion, T ypical 0.2 V pk-pk to 2.0 V pk-pk Ranges on 50 Ω Input Filters of f or antialias filter on T wo tones at 10.2 MHz and 11.2 MHz Each tone is –7 dBFS –75 dBc Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), T ypical Range (V pk-pk ) 50 Ω 1M Ω Excludes harmonics 10[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 8 ni.com Figure 2. NI 5124 Dynamic Performance, 50 Ω , 1 V pk-pk Range, 262,144 Point FF T (T ypical) –110 –100 –90 –80 –70 –60 –50 –40 –30 –20 –10 0 Amplitude (dBFS) 10 M 20 M 30 M 40 M 50 M 60 M 70 M 80 M 90 M 100 M 1 M F requency (Hz) 9.83 MHz, –1 dBFS Input Signal[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 9 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Specif ication Va l u e Comments RMS Noise Range (V pk-pk ) 50 Ω 1M Ω Noise filter on 50 Ω terminator connected to input 0.2 NI PXI-5124: 94 μ V rms (0.047% FS) NI PCI-5124: 106 μ V rms (0.053% FS) NI PXI-5124 : 104 μ V rms (0.052% FS) NI PCI-5124: 116 μ V rms (0.058% FS)[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 10 ni.com RMS Noise Range (V pk-pk ) 50 Ω 1M Ω Antiali as fil t e r on 50 Ω terminator connected to input 0.2 NI PXI-5124: 112 μ V rms (0.056% FS) NI PCI-5124: 126 μ V rms (0.063% FS) NI PXI-5124 : 130 μ V rms (0.065% FS) NI PCI-5124: 146 μ V rms (0.073% FS) 0.4 200 μ V rms (0.05% FS) 216 μ V rms (0.054% FS) [...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 11 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications RMS Noise Range (V pk-pk ) 50 Ω 1M Ω Filters off 50 Ω terminator connected to input 0.2 NI PXI-5124: 114 μ V rms (0.057% FS) NI PCI-5124: 128 μ V rms (0.064% FS) NI PXI-5124 : 164 μ V rms (0.082% FS) NI PCI-5124: 184 μ V rms (0.092% FS) 0.4 204 μ V rms (0.051% FS) 264 ?[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 12 ni.com Figure 3. Representation of NI 5124 Spectral Noise Density on 0.2 V Range, Noise Filter Enabled, 1 M Ω Input Impedance Figure 4. Representation of NI 5124 Spectral Noise Density on 0.2 V Range, Full Bandwidth, 50 Ω Input Impedance 60 n 50 n 40 n 30 n 20 n 10 n 1 n 1 k 10 k 100 k 1 M 10 M 100 M F requency ([...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 13 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Horizontal Sample Clock Specif ication Va l u e Comments Sources NI PXI-5124 NI PCI-5124 * Internal Sample Clock is locked to the Reference Clock or deriv ed from the onboard VCXO Internal, Onboard Clock (internal VCXO) * External, CLK IN (front panel SMB connector) External, P[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 14 ni.com Sample Clock Jitter , T ypical ≤ 1 ps rms (10 0 Hz to 100 kHz) ≤ 2p s r m s ( 1 0 0 H z t o 1M H z ) Includes the ef fects of the con verter aperture uncertainty and the clock circuitry jitter Excludes trigger jitter T imebase Frequency 200 MHz — T imebase Accuracy Not Phase-Locked to Reference Clock P[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 15 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications External Sample Clock Sources NI PXI-5124 NI PCI-5124 — CLK IN (front panel SMB connector) PXI Star Trigger (backplane connector) CLK IN (front panel SMB connector) Frequenc y Range 50 MHz to 210 MHz (CLK IN) 50 MHz to 80 MHz (PXI Star T rigger) Di vide by n decimation av ail[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 16 ni.com Phase-Locked Loo p (PLL) Reference Clock Sample Clock Exporting Exported Sample Clock Destinations Destination Maximum Frequency * Decimated Sample Clock only CLK OUT (front panel SMB connector) 210 MHz PXI_T rig<0..6> (backplane connector) * 20 MHz PFI<0..1> (front panel 9-pin mini-circular DIN [...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 17 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications CLK IN (Sample Clock and Reference Clock Input, Front Panel Connector) CLK OUT (Sample Clock and Reference Clock Output, Front Panel Connector) T rigger Reference (Stop) T rigger Specification Va l u e Comments Input V oltage Range Sine wav e: 0.65 V pk-pk to 2.8 V pk-pk (0 dBm[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 18 ni.com Ti m e Resolution TDC Onboard Clock External Clock TDC = T ime to Digita l Con version Circuit On 50 ps N/A Of f 5n s External Clock Period Rearm T ime TDC Rearm T ime Ho ldoff s et to 0 On 10 μ s Of f 2 μ s Holdoff TDC Onboard Clock External Clock — On 10 μ s to 85.899 s N/A Of f 2 μ s to 85.8 99 s 20[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 19 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications TRIG (External T rigger , Front Panel Connector) T rigger Filters Lo w-Frequenc y (LF) Reject High-Frequency (HF) Reject — 50 kHz 50 kHz Digital Trigger (Digital Trig ger Type) Sources NI PXI-5124 NI PCI-5124 — PXI_T rig<0..6> (backplane connector) PFI<0..1> (fr[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 20 ni.com PFI 0 and PFI 1 (Programmable Function Interface, AUX Front Panel Connector) Specif ication Va l u e Co mments Connector 9-pin mini-circu lar DIN — Direction Bi-directiona l — As an Input (Trigger) Destinations Start T rigger (Acquisition Arm) Reference (Stop) T rigger Arm Reference Trigger Advance T rig[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 21 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications TClk Specifications National Instruments TClk synchronizati on method and the NI-TClk driver are used to align the sample clocks on any numb er of SMC-based modules in a chassis. For more inform ation about TClk synchronizati on, refer to the NI-TClk Synchronization Help , wh i[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 22 ni.com W aveform Specifications Specification Va l u e Comments Onboard Memory Size 8 MB per channel stan dard (4 megasamples per channel) * NI PXI-5124 only 32 MB per channel option (16 megasamples per channel) 256 MB per channel option (128 megasamples per channel) 512 MB per channel option (256 megasamples per c[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 23 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Calibration Power Specification Va l u e Comments Self-Calibrati on Self-calibration i s done on soft ware command. The calibration corrects for gain, offset, frequency response, triggering, and timing adjust ment errors for all input ranges. — External Calibrat ion (Factory [...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 24 ni.com Software Specif ication Va l u e Comments Dri ver Software NI-SCOPE 2.7 or later NI-SCOPE is an IVI-comp liant driv er that allows you to configure, control, and calib rate the NI 5124. NI-SCOPE provides application program ming interf aces for many dev elopment environments. — Application Software NI-SCOP[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 25 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Environment NI PXI-5124 Note T o ensure that the NI PXI-5124 cools ef fectiv ely , follow the guidelines in the Maintain Forced Air Cooling Note to Users included in the NI PXI-5124 kit. The NI PXI-5124 is intended for indoor us e only . Specif ication Va l u e Comments Operati[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 26 ni.com NI PCI-5124 Note T o ensure that the NI PCI-5124 cools effecti v ely , make sure that the chassis in which it is used has activ e cooling that provides at least some airflow acros s the PCI card cage. T o maximize airflo w and extend the life of the de vice, leav e any adjacent PCI slots empty . Refer to the[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 27 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Safety , Electromagnetic Compatibility , and CE Compliance Safety This product is designed to meet the requirements of the follow ing standards of safety for electrical equi pment for measurement, control, and laboratory use: • IEC 61010-1, EN 61010-1 • UL 61010-1, CSA 6101[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 28 ni.com Environmental Management National Instruments i s committed to designing and manu facturing products in an environmental ly responsible mann er. NI recognizes that eliminating certa in hazardous substances from our products is beneficial not only to t he environment but also to NI customers. For additional e[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 29 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Dimensions and W eight NI PXI-5124 Front Panel I ndicators Label Function Fo r m or e information, refer to the NI High-Speed Digitizers Help . A CCESS The A CCESS LED indicates the status of the PCI b us and the interface from the NI PXI-5124 to the co ntroller . AC T I V E Th[...]

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    NI PXI/PCI-5124 Specifications 30 ni.com NI PCI-5124 Dimensions 35.5 × 2.0 × 11.3 cm (14.0 × 0.8 × 4.4 in.) We i g h t 455 g (16 oz) 2.0 cm (0.8 in.) 35.5 cm (14.0 in.) 11.3 cm (4.4 in.)[...]

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    © National Instruments Corporat ion 31 NI PXI/PCI-5 124 Specifications Where to Go for Support The National Instrum ents W eb site is your complete resource for technical support. At ni.com/support you hav e access to e verything from troubleshooting and ap plication dev el opment self-help resources to email and phone assistance from NI Applicati[...]

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