1.1 Introduction
The PCI-1710/1710HG is a multifunction DAS card for the PCI bus. Advanced circuit design brings you higher quality and more func- tions, including the five most desired measurement and control functions: 12-bit A/D conversion, D/A conversion, digital input, digital output, and counter/timer.
PCI-bus Plug and Play
The PCI-1710/1710HG uses a PCI controller to interface the card with the PCI bus. The controller fully implements the PCI bus specifica- tion Rev 2.1. All bus relative configurations, such as base address and interrupt assignment, are automatically controlled by software. No jumper or DIP switch setting is required for user configuration.
Flexible Inputs Types and Ranges Setting
The PCI-1710/1710HG features an automatic channel/gain scanning circuit. The circuit, rather than your software, controls multiplexer switching during sampling. The on-board SRAM stores different gain values and configuration for each channel. This design lets you perform multi-channel high-speed sampling (up to 100 kHz) with different gains for each channel with free combination of single-ended and differential inputs.
On-board FIFO (First In First Out) Memory
The PCI-1710/1710HG has an on-board FIFO buffer which can store up to 4K A/D samples. The PCI-1710/1710HG generates an interrupt when the FIFO is half full. This feature provides continuous high- speed data transfer and more predictable performance on Windows systems.
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