Ndigo5G-10

Ndigo5G-10

Ndigo 5G-10 Pulse acquisition platform - analog to digital converter/digitizer

The Ndigo5G-10 is a PCIe-based 4-channel flash-ADC with sample rates up to 5Gs/s and a resolution of 10bits.

The Ndigo5G is a flash-ADC board for the acquisition of short pulses. It was specifically designed for time-of-flight applications like LIDAR or TOF mass spectrometry. With this transient recorder, pulse arrival times can be measured with an accuracy of up to 5 ps together with information about pulse shapes such as area or amplitude.

Extracted pulse data is streamed directly to the main memory at 800MB/s for the lowest latency and largest buffer size.

Four channels with 1.25 Gsps can be acquired independently. Alternatively, two channels can be combined to increase the dynamic range - or a single channel can be acquired with an even higher dynamic range (up to 5 Gsps sampling rate).

The Ndigo5G-10 offers 10 bits of vertical resolution. The Ndigo5G-8 provides a resolution of 8 bits at a lower cost. Analog bandwidth and sample rate are identical to that of the Ndigo5G-10.

Please note: Consider the Ndigo6G-12 for new designs. It provides even higher performance at a similar cost.

cronologic will support you with drivers for Windows and Linux.

Detect pulses above a certain threshold and only acquire the relevant data to massively reduce the amount of data that needs to be copied and analyzed.

Zero suppression

Detect pulses above a certain threshold and only acquire the relevant data to massively reduce the amount of data that needs to be copied and analyzed.
When acquiring unipolar pulses, shift the baseline to the edge of the ADC range to double your dynamic range.

Configurable DC offset

When acquiring unipolar pulses, shift the baseline to the edge of the ADC range to double your dynamic range.
A multitude of useful details help you to create a highly integrated setup with a minimum of external components.
The integrated TiGer timing pattern generator can provide digital pulse patterns to control your experiment or internal triggers. Use gate and veto functions with our gating logic. This also works across channels or from the additional digital input with a flexible trigger matrix.

Flexible utility functions

A multitude of useful details help you to create a highly integrated setup with a minimum of external components. The integrated TiGer timing pattern generator can provide digital pulse patterns to control your experiment or internal triggers. Use gate and veto functions with our gating logic. This also works across channels or from the additional digital input with a flexible trigger matrix.

Ndigo5G-10

Data

TOF applications
4
1
1
6x LEMO 00
5.0 Gsps
1.25 Gsps
10 bits
950 Mhz
40 ps
typically 4ns
unlimited
none
20 MHits/s
800 MBytes/s
106 d
yes / yes
8
PCIe x4
50 ppb on board or external 10 MHz clock
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Ndigo Crates

Our Ndigo Crates allow for using up to 8 PCIe-boards with a conventional PC. The external chassis is connected employing a  PCIe2 x16-interface.
Crate5
Crate3
Crate
PCIe3 x16
8 GByte/s
16x
2
3
2
0
included
PCIe3 x16
8 GByte/s
16x
2
3
0
2
included
PCIe2 x16
8 GByte/s
8x
0
8
0
0
included

Applications:

FLIM

(fluorescence-lifetime imaging microscopy)
The decay time of an excited fluorophore is typically in the range of a few nanoseconds. In fluorescence lifetime imaging the exponential decay of a sample is determined requiring a timing resolution in the picosecond regime.

LIDAR

also known as: LIDAR, LiDAR, and LADAR, "light detection and ranging", "laser imaging, detection, and ranging", "3-D laser scanning", "LIDAR mapping", "airborne laser scanning", ALS
LIDAR Systems emit ultraviolet, visible, or near-infrared light to image objects and measuring the time-of-flight (TOF) of reflected photons. Such systems are used for object detection and tracking in many different fields, ranging from archaeology to agriculture, autonomous vehicles and robots etc.

OTDR

optical time-domain reflectometry, optical time-domain reflectometer, remote fiber testing
In optical time-domain reflectometry the time of the reflections is determined from the reflection loss by measuring from the same end of the fiber how much light returns via the Rayleigh backscatter or is being reflected from individual locations along the fiber.

Quantum Sensing

see also: quantum metrology
Quantum sensing is an overall term that encompasses techniques and methods that use quantum mechanical phenomena to make precise measurements of physical quantities. Thereby, quantum mechanical states and effects are used to improve the measurement accuracy beyond the limits of classical sensors.

TOF mass spectrometry

TOF- & MASS- spectroscopy detectors, TOFMS
In many TOFMS units cronologic TDCs are used to measure precisely the arrival of single ions. From the arrival time, the ion’s time-of-flight is deduced, from which the mass-to-charge ratio of the detected particle can be determined.

Time Domain Reflectometry

TDR, distance-to-fault, DTF
TDR (Time Domain Reflectometry) is an electronic measurement method that measures reflections along a conductor. It belongs to the category of Distance-to-Fault (DTF) measurements. TDR measurements provide meaningful information about the broadband behavior of transmission systems.

fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy

FLCS, FCS, fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy
Fluorescence-correlation-spectroscopy is a highly sensitive optical measurement method. Fluctuations in the fluorescence emission intensity over time are recorded, which are caused by individual fluorophores that pass through the detection volume.

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