� Up to 8 fully synchronous channels
� Up to 4 GBytes on-board memory
� PCI-X interface allows more than 200 MB/s sustained data rate
� Multiple Recording/Gated Sampling with pre-trigger,
post-trigger, low rearm-time and timestamp
� ABA mode available
� Programmable trigger delay
� Optimized clock section
� 100% compatible to PCI 32 slots
� Synchronization of up to 16 cards
� Versatile software support
M2i – IMPROVED FAST DATA
ACQUISITION CARDS
The M2i series is
a new generation
of fast data
acquisition cards,
compatible with
MI series – with
more features,
more speed and
much more
memory.
Application areas
Automation
Production Test
Sonar/Radar
Laser/Ultrasound
LDA/PDA
Research/Development
Automotive
Laboratory
Spectroscopy
ATE
and many more ...
PC Instruments for PCI, PXI and CompactPCI
Available series
8 bit A/D, 50 MS/s up to 200 MS/s
12 bit A/D, 1 MS/s up to 200 MS/s
14 bit A/D, 20 MS/s up to 50 MS/s
16 bit A/D, 200 kS/s up to 3 MS/s
M2i – A /D CARD SERIES FEATURES
FIFO Mode
Multiple Recording
The FIFO Mode streams data continuously over the PCI bus.
Due to the extremely large FIFO buffer that uses the complete
on-board memory, the optimized busmaster scatter-gather
DMA engines and the 66 MHz PCI-X interface makes a sustained
transfer speed of > 200 MB/s easy to achieve.
With up to 4 GBytes on-board
memory, long-time full speed
acquisitions even with high
sampling rates or a high channel
count are possible. For example,
the maximum memory allows 20
seconds recording time of an 8 bit
channel at 200 MS/s, or 40 seconds
of a 14 bit channel at 50 MS/s.
The complete memory is directly
mounted on-board – no extra slots
are needed even for 4 GBytes.
The Enhanced Trigger Engine
allows a wide variety of trigger
modes. This includes channel triggers
with level and edge detection,
windows trigger condition as well
as external TTL triggers or gates.
All sources can be combined with
AND/OR and a pulse width counter.
Some extras like programmable
trigger delay, software trigger and
force trigger commands make the
trigger engine suitable for nearly
every application.
The Multiple Recording option allows the recording
of several trigger events without restarting the hard-
ware. Pre-, post- and delay trigger can be programmed.
Due to the extremely short re-arming time no event
is lost. The segment size and the number of segments
can be freely programmed.
The Gated Sampling option allows data acquisition
controlled by a gate condition. Even in this mode
one can program pre, post and delay trigger. Start and
stop positions can be stored in the additional time-
stamp memory.
The Timestamp option writes exact trigger positions
to an extra memory. The timestamps are recorded
relative to the start of recording, to a defined zero
time, or synchronized with an external real time clock.
The optional ABA Mode combines slow continuous
data recording with fast acquisition on trigger events.
The ABA mode works like a slow data logger com-
bined with a fast digitizer.
Gated Sampling
Timestamp
ABA Mode
Enhanced Trigger Engine
4 GBytes on-board memory
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Analog Inputs
The Analog Inputs can be adapted to real world
signals using a wide variety of settings that's individual
for each channel. By using software commands the
input termination can be changed between 50 Ohm
and 1 MOhm, one can select a matching input range
out of up to 8 ranges, or the signal offset can be
programmed up to 400%.
Digital Inputs
Digital Inputs: all A/D cards with 12 and 14 bit
resolution have the option of acquiring synchronously
digital data phase-stable with the analog data. Each
12 bit channel has 4 additional digital channels, whilst
each 14 bit channel has 2. No additional memory is
needed for the digital data.
Clock Engine
The M2i cards offer an extremely powerful Clock
Engine allowing many different modes to be
selectable with simple software commands:
� Using the on-board PLL results in a high granu-
larity of available sampling clocks
� A plain quartz is used for applications like
frequency analysis that need a high quality clock
� The refclock mode allows the generation of a
desired frequency using an external reference
� The external clock can be used for direct sampling
or in conjunction with a programmable divider
and the used clock edge can be programmed
� When using synchronization each card can have
individual sampling clocks using a divider
� The internally used clock can be distributed to
external components using the clock output
Starhub
The Starhub option allows the
synchronization of up to 16 cards
in one system. Each card can run
with an individual but synchronous
sampling clock derived from the
master clock. There is no phase
delay between the synchronized
channels. Up to 5 cards can be
synchronized without the need for
an additional system slot. It's
possible to synchronize cards of
the same type as well as cards of
different types and sampling
speeds. Slower cards can run with
a sampling clock divided from the
synchronization clock.
Drivers / Third Party
Drivers for Windows 2000,
Windows XP, Windows XP64 and
Linux are included in the card
delivery as well as programming
examples for several common
programming languages.
All further driver updates are
free of charge, including updates
for future Windows or Linux
versions.
The register based driver consists
of 6 main functions only and has
been optimized for ease-of-use.
The driver concept has proven its
reliability and power over years
with the MI cards.
Third party products are
supported as an option. This
includes drivers for LabVIEW,
LabWindows, MATLAB, DASYLab
and VEE. The DASYLab driver is
installed transparently as a
hardware device in DASYLab.
All other drivers offer complete
access to the basic Windows
drivers allowing all details of the
hardware to be individually
configured.
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M2i Product Overview
card resolution 1 channel 2 channels 4 channels 8 channels input ranges
M2i.2020 8 bit 50 MS/s 50 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±5 V
M2i.2021 8 bit 50 MS/s 50 MS/s 50 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±5 V
M2i.2030 8 bit 200 MS/s 100 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±5 V
M2i.2031 8 bit 200 MS/s 200 MS/s 100 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±5 V
M2i.3010 12 bit 80 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3011 12 bit 40 MS/s 40 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3012 12 bit 80 MS/s 40 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3013 12 bit 40 MS/s 40 MS/s 40 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3014 12 bit 80 MS/s 80 MS/s 40 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3015 12 bit 160 MS/s 80 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3016 12 bit 160 MS/s 80 MS/s 40 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3020 12 bit 100 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3021 12 bit 50 MS/s 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3022 12 bit 100 MS/s 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3023 12 bit 50 MS/s 50 MS/s 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3024 12 bit 100 MS/s 100 MS/s 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3025 12 bit 200 MS/s 100 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3026 12 bit 200 MS/s 100 MS/s 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3027 12 bit 100 MS/s 100 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3031 12 bit 60 MS/s 60 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3033 12 bit 60 MS/s 60 MS/s 60 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3110 12 bit 1 MS/s 1 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3111 12 bit 1 MS/s 1 MS/s 1 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3112 12 bit 1 MS/s 1 MS/s 1 MS/s 1 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3120 12 bit 10 MS/s 10 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3121 12 bit 10 MS/s 10 MS/s 10 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3122 12 bit 10 MS/s 10 MS/s 10 MS/s 10 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3130 12 bit 25 MS/s 25 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3131 12 bit 25 MS/s 25 MS/s 25 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.3132 12 bit 25 MS/s 25 MS/s 25 MS/s 25 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4020 14 bit 20 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4021 14 bit 20 MS/s 20 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4022 14 bit 20 MS/s 20 MS/s 20 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4030 14 bit 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4031 14 bit 50 MS/s 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4032 14 bit 50 MS/s 50 MS/s 50 MS/s ±200 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4620 16 bit 200 kS/s 200 kS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4621 16 bit 200 kS/s 200 kS/s 200 kS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4622 16 bit 200 kS/s 200 kS/s 200 kS/s 200 kS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4630 16 bit 500 kS/s 500 kS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4631 16 bit 500 kS/s 500 kS/s 500 kS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4632 16 bit 500 kS/s 500 kS/s 500 kS/s 500 kS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4640 16 bit 1 MS/s 1 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4641 16 bit 1 MS/s 1 MS/s 1 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4642 16 bit 1 MS/s 1 MS/s 1 MS/s 1 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4650 16 bit 3 MS/s 3 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4651 16 bit 3 MS/s 3 MS/s 3 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
M2i.4652 16 bit 3 MS/s 3 MS/s 3 MS/s 3 MS/s ±50 mV ... ±10 V
Custom specific cards
The modular structure of
the cards and the years of
development expertise at
Spectrum allow us to make
custom specific changes to
the cards to match your
particular application
requirements. Whether you
need special high-accuracy
quartz clocking, different
input ranges, advanced
trigger functions, additional
output signals or even
complete custom designed
analog modules – just
discuss your needs with our
design team.
MI cards availability
The M2i series will succeed
the MI series and replace
the existing cards. As we
kept an eye on the
compatibility by adding a
software compatibility layer,
software adaptation to the
new series is an easy job.
However if it's not possible
for existing customers to
change to the new card
series there's still no
problem:
We guarantee the availa-
bility of the existing
MI cards henceforth for
several years to come.
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