U5310A 10-bit ADC Card

from 5 GS/s to 10 GS/s, with real-time processing

The U5310A is a true two channel PCIe, DC coupled 10-bit DAQ card (or ADC card), providing sample rates up to 10 GS/s. With 10-bit resolution across a wide 2.5 GHz bandwidth, and real-time processing capabilities, this high-speed signal acquisition card is designed for embedded OEM applications in a variety of advanced imaging and processing systems.

Featuring unique spurious-free dynamic range (SFDR) and signal noise ratio (SNR) performances in high frequencies, especially at 250 mV full scale range (FSR), the U5310A PCIe digitizer is particularly suited for embedded OEM applications requiring digitizer sampling at wide bandwidth and high dynamic range. Overall performance enables final products to more precisely measure time of flight in several end system applications.

Key features

10-bit resolution
1 channel with up to 10 GS/s sampling rate with interleaving enabled
2 channels up to 5 GS/s simultaneously sampling
DC up to 2.5 GHz bandwidth
50 Ω input impedance, DC coupled
Selectable 250 mV or 1 V full scale range (FSR)
15 ps RMS trigger time interpolator (TTI) precision
Low noise density and low distortion
Optimized frequency response flatness
Excellent and flat SFDR over a large analysis bandwidth (> 56 dBc typical)
Up to 4 GB DDR3 on-board memory
On-board data processing unit using a Xilinx FPGA

Customer values

Fast PCIe 10-bit digitizer with on-board real-time processing
Capture wide bandwidth signals
High dynamic range acquisition for better measurement fidelity
Accurate measurement
Capable of switching between multiple firmware programs

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Applications

Medical research instrumentation
Environmental monitoring with laser scanning (LiDAR)
Analytical time-of-flight (TOF)
Physics experiments

Real-time proccessing

At the heart of the ADC card, the FPGA enables real-time signal processing. The following firmware options are available:

The interleaved option (-INT) that enables up to 10 GS/s on one channel, doubling the sampling rate while maintaining the same signal integrity high performances
The average option (-AVG) that allows accumulation of waveforms from 1 to 16k triggers on dual synchronous channels at up to 5 GS/s, or on single channel at 10 GS/s. An innovative programmable trigger output can be used to optimize the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and increase the ability to isolate very small peaks from the signal noise
The continuous simultaneous acquisition and readout with triggers (-CST) option that supports multiple triggered record acquisitions and simultaneous output data streaming.

Block Diagram

Key specifications & Variants

	U5310A	U5310A-INT
Channel (s)	2 channels	1 or 2 channels
Max. Sampling rate	Up to 5S/s on 2 channels	up to 5 GS/s on 2 channels or up to 10 GS/s on 1 channel (INT)
Bandwidth	DC to 2.5 GHz	DC to 2.5 GHz
Resolution	10-bit	10-bit
Memory	up to 4 GB	up to 4 GB
Input Full scale range	250 mV or 1 V Selectable by SW	250 mV or 1 V Selectable by SW
Form factor	PCIe Card	PCIe Card
Interface	PCIe gen2	PCIe gen2
Max. Data transfer rate	2.5 GB/s	2.5 GB/s