Ndigo6G-12

Versatile pulse acquisition platform - analog to digital converter

The Ndigo6G-12 ADC offers a 6,4 Gsps sample rate, 12 bits resolution, and a greatly improved readout rate of 6 GB/s.

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 analysed.

Configurable DC offset

When acquiring unipolar pulses, shift the baseline to the edge of the ADC range to double your dynamic range.

Flexible utility functions

A multitude of useful details help you to create a highly integrated setup with a minimum of external components. Using 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.

Streaming architecture

The buffers of the Ndigo6G-12 are only limited by the size of your PC's main memory. Data is streamed at a rate of 6 GByte/s concurrently to data acquisition. There is no dead time and latency is minimized.

The Ndigo6G-12 is a hybrid ADC/TDC solution for the acquisition of short pulses. This is correct: The unit combines a four-channel transient recorder with a four-channel time interval analyzer. This combination gives the device a wide range of uses. It builds on the established platform of the Ndigo5G-10, but takes it to the next level in both, performance and flexibility.

The Ndigo6G-12 is particularly well-suited for time of flight applications (TOF systems) like LIDAR, Time-of-Flight mass spectrometry, in time-resolved single photon counting (TCSPC), multispectral time-of-flight imaging, fluorescence livetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) etc. Pulse arrival times can be measured with an accuracy down to 5 ps in combination with information on pulse shape such as area or amplitude.

Four channels at 1600 Msps at 12 Bit resolution can be recorded independently or combined to two or one channel(s) with a higher dynamic range of up to 6400 Msps. The Ndigo6G-12 comprises, in addition, four TDC channels with a resolution of 13 ps.

cronologic will support you with drivers for Windows and Linux.

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.

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.

Ndigo6G-12

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Optimized for

TDC channels

Gating channels

Connectors

10x LEMO 00

Sample rate single channel

6400 Msps

Sample rate multi channel

1600 Msps

Resolution

12 bits

maximum bandwidth

TBD

TDC bin size

12 ps

TDC double pulse resolution

typically 4ns

Multihit

unlimited

Dead time between Groups

none

TDC readout rate

TBD

ADC readout rate

approx. 6000 MByte/s

Range

TBD

Common start/stop

yes / yes

Number of boards that can
be event-synchronized

Readout interface

PCIe3 x8

Time base

50 ppb on board or external 10 MHz clock

On-board calibration data storage

Adjustable trigger windows

Overlapping events possible

Easy to use Windows C API

In-system firmware update

Linux support available

yes

ADC channels

TOF applications

Ndigo6G-12

Ndigo6G-12

Versatile pulse acquisition platform - analog to digital converter

Zero suppression

Configurable DC offset

Flexible utility functions

Streaming architecture

Applications:

FLIM

LIDAR

OTDR

TOF mass spectrometry

Time Domain Reflectometry

Ndigo6G-12

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