A common way of designing a new large building is to make a scale model and test it in a wind tunnel.

A 10GS/s sampling rate, 12-bit vertical resolution and 12.8GB/s data streaming are features of two new PCIe Digitiser cards from Spectrum Instrumentation.

Guatemala in Central America has three constantly active volcanos, all of which have villages near them, so it is vitally important to have an early warning system for eruptions to save lives.

Spectrum Instrumentation’s complete line of PCIe digitiser cards can now perform Digital Down Conversion (DDC) thanks to a low-cost option that uses an external GPU card for continuous ‘on-the-fly’ processing.

The addition of two PCIe Digitiser cards from Spectrum Instrumentation extends the company’s flagship M5i series to deliver optimal GHz signal acquisition and analysis capabilities.

To help explain the formation, evolution and behaviour of large-scale structures in the universe such as galaxies, scientists have predicted the existence of dark matter. In fact, theory suggests that the universe may actually contain up to five times more dark matter than ordinary matter!

A new firmware option has been created by Spectrum Instrumentation that allows the company’s high-speed M5i digitiser cards to perform on-board summation averaging.

The Acoustics Research Group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Brigham Young University, Utah, USA has chosen Spectrum Instrumentation’s digitisers and signal generators to form the heart of its new underwater acoustics laboratory.

Spectrum Instrumentation expands leading-edge digitizer family

Spectrum Instrumentation now offers driver support for the NVIDIA Clara AGX, a universal computing architecture for the next generation of AI medical instruments. The new drivers enable scientists and developers to choose from 64 different Spectrum Digitisers, Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWGs) and Digital I/O cards, letting the NVIDIA Clara AGX kit perform high-speed electronic signal acquisition and generation for analog and digital signals.&...

The release of two PCIe Digitizer cards from Spectrum Instrumentation brings next gen performance to PC-based instrumentation.

Microwave spectroscopy is a very powerful tool for discovering molecular structures and operates at very low temperatures near absolute zero (1 to 5 Kelvin). The spectrometers generally either operate with high sensitivity over a very narrow bandwidth or a wide frequency with reduced sensitivity.

Ultra-clean signal handling and nanosecond data precision leads to "unprecedented" cosmic sensitivity of the world's "largest" Cherenkov telescopes.

The fight against the Coronavirus does not only take place in medical laboratories, but also in computing. Handling the huge amounts of data for vaccine development requires advanced tools: 'Julia', a relatively new software language, has surged in popularity. It delivers comparable speed and functionality to programming in C while also allowing scientific and numerical computing. 

Following a number of requests from its customers, Spectrum Instrumentation now offers driver support for the NVIDIA Jetson, a series of embedded computing boards from NVIDIA. The new driver package means that any of Spectrum's high performance Digitisers, AWGs or Digital I/O products with PCIe interface, currently 65 different cards, can be used with this small but powerful platform. 

The Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) is an important tool in materials science and used for mechanical scanning of surfaces. The forces acting between the atoms of the surface and the tip of a nanoscopic needle are measured and calculated giving resolutions in the order of fractions of a nanometer.

Spectrum Instrumentation has announced that Carsten Gralla has joined its expanded executive team as Managing Director. Carsten holds a degree in mechanical engineering and is seen as a major asset to the business. Having previously worked in both large and small organisations, he brings a wealth of experience in all areas of commerce. This includes production, IT, international sales, marketing and quality management. As MD, Carsten will work wi...

Testing mixed signal devices requires both analogue and digital measurements. Analogue measurements, which acquire data samples with high amplitude resolution as a function of time, are used to test physical layer compliance with test standards, and digital measurements, which obtain data samples with single bit resolution versus time, assure data state as a function of time and permit evaluation of protocol content. Oliver Rovini - Technica...

Spectrum Instrumentation has extended its range of hybridNETBOX products with the addition of eight high-speed models.  

How do you determine what is going on when you can’t actually see the components in the system you are investigating? This is the challenge when investigating the quantum behaviour of electrons in a lattice of ions. The solution being created by the Physics Department at the University of San Diego, California is to build a model that is slightly larger with observable components of single atoms moving in an optical lattice.