Products Overview

High Speed ADCs

Our analog-to-digital converter boards are optimized for the analysis of analog pulses at very high repetition rates as occurring in TOF-MS, TCSPC, FLIM and LIDAR instruments. Unlike other digitizer boards, they detect pulses on the fly and stream the pulse shape data directly to main memory, minimizing bandwidth requirements, latency and CPU load. Two examples from our portfolio are shown below.
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Optimized for
ADC channels
TDC channels
Gating channels
Connectors
Sample rate single channel
Sample rate multi channel
Resolution
Maximum bandwidth
TDC bin size
TDC double pulse resolution
Multihit
Dead time between groups
TDC readout rate
ADC readout rate
Timestamp range
Common start/stop
Number of boards that can be synced
Readout interface
Time base
On-board calibration data storage
Adjustable trigger windows
Overlapping events possible
Easy to use Windows C API
In-system firmware update
Linux support available
Ndigo5G-10
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
Ndigo6G-12
TOF applications
4
4
2
10x LEMO 00
6400 Msps
1600 Msps
12 bits
TBD
12 ps
typically 4ns
unlimited
none
30 MHits/s total; 11,6 MHits/s
approx. 6000 MByte/s
106 d
yes / yes
8
PCIe3 x8
50 ppb on board or external 10 MHz clock

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Ndigo6G-12
Ndigo5G-10

Time Measurement

Our time-to-digital converters target high-speed pulse processing applications that do not require information on analog pulse shapes. Several examples from our portfolio are shown below.
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Optimized for
TDC channels @ bin size
Additional inputs
Connectors
bin size
Double pulse resolution
Multihit
Dead time between groups
Readout rate
Timestamp range
Common start/stop
Number of boards that can be synced
Readout interface
Time base
Linux support available
TimeTagger
low cost
1 start & 4 stop channels
-
5x LEMO 00
800 / 400 / 200 / 100 ps
2 bins
1000x per start event
none
60 MHits/s total; 40 MHits/s per channel
1,67 ms / 430 ms extended
yes / no
no sync possible
PCIe2 x1 @ 400MB/s
50 ppb on board
yes
xTDC4-PCIe
common start
1start & 4stop channels
-
5x LEMO 00
13 ps
5 ns
15
parameter dependent
30 MHits/s total; 11,6 MHits/s per channel
218 µs / 14 ms extended
yes / no
no sync possible
PCIe2 x1 @ 400 MB/s
50 ppb on board
yes
xHPTDC8-PCIe
flexibility + performance
8
event triggered ADC
10x LEMO 00
13 ps
5 ns
unlimited
none
48 MHits/s
unlimited
yes / yes
8
PCIe x1 @ 200 MB/s
50 ppb on board
yes
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xHPTDC8-PCIe
xTDC4-PCIe
TimeTagger

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.

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Connection to host
Bandwidth to host
Throughput relative to
10 Gbps Thunderbolt link
PCIe2 x16 slots with 8 lanes
PCIe2 x16 slots with 4 lanes
PCI slots 5 V, 32 bit, 33 MHz
PCI slots 3 V, 32 bit, 66 MHz
Cable and link boards
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
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Ndigo-Crate