About us

Acqiris is founded in 1998 by former LeCroy’s employees with a strong background in high-speed signal measurement and who have closely collaborated with the CERN, as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) started. Acqiris aimed at developing efficient and compact solutions to address emerging needs for signal acquisition for both OEMs – with PCI products –, and Research Laboratories requirements - with high-speed multichannel synchronizer systems cPCI instruments.

Acqiris released the first PCI and World’s fastest digitizers up to 1 GS/s based on proprietary integrated circuits (ASICs) and board design, enabling unique signal performance and signal quality as well as size and power optimization. The DP105 and DP110 digitizer family answers OEM needs to replace scopes with a more compact, integration-friendly format at lower cost.

Since higher sampling rates required more data processing, Acqiris developed real-time processing on FPGA to efficiently reduce the volume of data to be processed by the host computer. Starting with the AP240, Acqiris products include on-board real-time averaging and peak detection dedicated to mass-spectrometry time-of-flight (MS-TOF) -Example of use of Acqiris in MALDI-TOF.

In 2003, Acqiris has introduced a new family of PCI 12-bit ADC digitizer cards featuring a high level of throughput. The DP310 has a sampling rate of up to 400 MS/s, while the DP306 and DP308 sample at up to 100 and 200 MS/s, respectively.

Acqiris developed the DP then DC digitizer families, capturing waveforms at up to 8 GS/s and analyzing fast pulses < 1ns. Maximizing bus interface speed, Acqiris introduced “Simultaneous Acquisition and Readout,” a breakthrough feature that allows continuous acquisition without missing any trigger.

Acqiris developed new application-dedicated products such as the AP101/201 family, which addressed the requirements of Scanning Acoustic Microscopy (SAM) systems. Acqiris PCI products were integrated into tripods or airborne LiDAR systems, the DP105 used in airport civil Radar by Raytheon (plane positioning), while Acqiris PXI products were embedded into semiconductor manufacturing and test systems. Acqiris is also used for Astrophysics measurements and Nasa also chooses Acqiris.

Acqiris joins Agilent Technologies and continues to operate as part of the electronic measurement portfolio, addressing the OEM and Test and Measurements business to meet the ongoing demand for in-product test and embedded data conversion, accelerating time-to-market and reducing cost.

Acqiris is used in Quantum Computing (See ETH Reference).

With the emergence of Swept-Source OCT, Acqiris developed DAQ solutions that answer the needs of these new medical imaging systems to capture high-frequency laser signals with high scanning rates. With dedicated software and a flexible onboard FPGA processing engine, Acqiris’ solution optimizes the SS-OCT system by enhancing image clarity and quality.

In September 2013, Agilent announced its electronic measurement business's spin-off. In 2014, Keysight Technologies began operations focusing 100% on the electronic measurement industry. Acqiris’ team became the Digitizer group inside Keysight, and joined the developed frequency domain solutions addressing the telecommunications and spectrum analyzers market.

The Firmware Development Kit offers a full design environment and associated software tools. It allows users to implement their custom signal processing in the digitizer FPGA, reducing the amount of data transferred to the host machine and enabling real-time signal processing.

On August 1^st, 2017, under the drive from employees and a group of 3 entrepreneurs, Keysight Technologies PCIe Digitizer group in Geneva, Switzerland, started as a new independent company and returned to the name Acqiris, leveraging the company's success story with a new business model focusing on signal acquisition solutions dedicated to OEMs and open to new Applications markets.

Acqiris SA2 platform has been specially designed to provide low noise and high signal accuracy with quality, reliability, and stable performance, improving the resolution for high sampling rates. For instance the SA2 is used in challenging TOF-MS applications.

With the release of the SA1 family, Acqiris addresses the OEM’s needs for a compact, low-consumption, and cost-effective solution.

Our solutions are integrated by many OEMs worldwide, and we continue to support them with the best possible service. Acqiris has pioneered many breakthroughs in the data acquisition and processing field for the last 25 years and looks forward to maintaining leadership in data acquisition solutions.