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Modular Instrumentation NI PCI-5911 User Manual High-Speed Digitizer with Flex ADC NI PCI-5911 User M anual ™ March 2 003 Edition Part Number 322150E-01.
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© National Instruments Corpor ation v NI PCI-5911 User Manual Contents About This Manual Conventions ............ .............. .............. ................. .............. .............. .............. ................ v ii Related Documentation .
Contents NI PCI-5911 User Manual vi ni.com Memory ............. ............... .............. .............. .............. ................. .............. .............. ...... 2-10 Triggering and Memory Usage .............. ................. .....
© National Instruments Corporat ion vii NI PCI-5911 User Manual About This Manual The NI 5911 User Manual provides information on instal ling, connecting signals to, and acquiring d ata from your NI 5 911 high-speed digitizer . This manual includes an ov ervie w of the NI 5911 and explains the operation of each functional unit of the NI 5911.
About This Manual NI PCI-5911 User Manual viii ni.com Related Documentation The following documents contain information that you mi ght find helpful as you read this manual: • Where to Start with Yo ur NI Digitizer • NI-SCOPE Software User Manual • NI-SCOPE Instrument Dri ver Quick Reference Guide Y ou can do wnload these documents from ni.
About This Manual © National Instruments Corpor ation ix NI PCI-5911 User Manual • Pollution Degree 3 means that conductiv e pollution occurs, or dry , nonconductiv e pollution occurs that becomes condu cti ve due to condensation. Y ou must insulate signal connections for th e maximum voltage for which the device is rated.
About This Manual NI PCI-5911 User Manual x ni.com outlets in the fix ed installation, and stationary motors with perm anent connections to fixed installations. • Installation Category IV is for measurement s performed at the primary electrical supply installation (<1,000 V).
© National Instruments Corporat ion 1-1 NI PCI-5911 User Manual 1 Introduction Thank you for buyin g an NI PCI-5911 digiti zer, featuring the Flex ADC for variable speed and resolution.
Chapter 1 Introduction NI PCI-5911 User Manual 1-2 ni.com Note The +5 V signal is fused at 1.1 A. Howe ve r , NI recommends limiting the current from this pin to 30 mA.
Chapter 1 Introduction © National Instruments Corporat ion 1-3 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Figure 1-2. 9-Pin Mini-Cir cular DIN Connector Acquiring Data with the NI 5911 You can acquire data either programm atically—by w ritin g an application for the NI 5911—or interactiv ely with the Scope Soft Fron t Panel.
Chapter 1 Introduction NI PCI-5911 User Manual 1-4 ni.com NI-SCOPE Function Reference Help , located at Start»Programs» National Instru ments»NI-SCO PE . For more detailed VI help, use LabVIEW context-sensiti v e help ( Help»Show Context Help ) or the NI-SCOPE VI Reference Help , located at Start»Programs»National Instruments»NI-SCOPE .
© National Instruments Corporat ion 2-1 NI PCI-5911 User Manual 2 Hardware Over view This chapter includes an overview of the NI 5 911, explains the operation of each functional unit making up the NI 5911, and describes the signal connections. Figure 2-1 shows a block diagram of the NI 5911.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview NI PCI-5911 User Manual 2-2 ni.com presented at the negative input is subt racted from the signal presented at the positive input. As shown in Figure 2-2, this subtraction rem oves ground noise from the signal. The inner conductor of th e BNC is V+.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview © National Instruments Corporat ion 2-3 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Input Ranges To optimize the ADC resolution, you can select different gains for the PGIA so that you can scale your input signal to match t he full input range of the converter.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview NI PCI-5911 User Manual 2-4 ni.com where V m is the measured v oltage, V s is the source v oltage, R s is the e xternal source impedance, and R in is the input impedance. If the de vice you are measuring has a very lar ge output impedance, your measurements will be af fected by th is impedance divider .
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview © National Instruments Corporat ion 2-5 NI PCI-5911 User Manual to allo w an 8-bit digitizer to acquire accurate data. Howe v er , the NI 5911 in flexible resolution mode is much more precise and thus requires a greater number of time constants of settling ti me to achiev e the desired precision.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview NI PCI-5911 User Manual 2-6 ni.com Flexible Resolution Mode Table 2-2 shows the relationship between the avail able sampling rates, resolution, and the corresponding bandwidt h for flexible resolution mode.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview © National Instruments Corporat ion 2-7 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Calibration The NI 5911 can be calibrated for high accuracy and resolution because of an advanced calibration sch eme. Th ere are two different types of calibration: internal, or self-calibrati on, and external calibration.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview NI PCI-5911 User Manual 2-8 ni.com • The linearity of the ADC is calibrated using an internal sine wav e generator as reference. • The time-to-digital con verter used for RIS measurements is calibrated. Caution Do not apply high-amplit ude or high-frequency signals to the NI 5911 during self-calibration.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview © National Instruments Corporat ion 2-9 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Figure 2-3. T rigger Sources Analog T rigger Circuit The analog trigger on the NI 591 1 operates by comparing the current analog input to an onb oard threshold voltage.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview NI PCI-5911 User Manual 2-10 ni.com T rigger Holdoff Trigger holdoff is the minimu m length of time (in seconds) from an accepted trigger to the start of the ne xt record. In other words, when a trigger is accepted, the trigger counter is loaded with the desired holdoff time.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview © National Instruments Corporat ion 2-11 N I PCI-5911 User Manual Multi-Record Acquisitions After the trigger has been received a nd the posttrigger samples have been stored, the NI 5911 can be configured to begin another acquisition that is stored in another onboard memory record.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview NI PCI-5911 User Manual 2-12 ni.com PFI Lines as Inputs You can select PFI 1 or PFI 2 as inputs for a trigger or a reference clock. Refer to the Synchr o niza t ion sec t ion f o r m ore informa t ion about t h e use of reference clocks in the NI 5911.
Chapter 2 Hardware Overview © National Instruments Corporat ion 2-13 N I PCI-5911 User Manual route that trigger over the R TSI bus to trigger the other digitizer(s). Howe v er , the trigger that is routed to the ot her digitizer(s) is sent synchronously to an internal 25 MHz clock.
© National Instruments Corporat ion A-1 NI PCI-5911 User Manual A Specifications This appendix lists the specifications of the NI 5911. These specif ications are typical at 25 ° C unless otherwise stated. Acquisition System Bandwidth ........ ......
Appendix A Specifications NI PCI-5911 User Manual A-2 ni.com Sample onboard memory ......... ............... 4 MB or 16 MB Memory Sample Depth 20 kS/s Fle xible Resolution 20.
Appendix A Specifications © National Instruments Corporat ion A-3 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Vertical Sensitivity (Input Ranges) Acquisition Characteristics Accuracy DC gain accuracy ......... .............. ............ ±0.05% si gnal ±0 .0001% fs for all input ranges at 1 MS/s in flexible resolution mode DC offset accuracy .
Appendix A Specifications NI PCI-5911 User Manual A-4 ni.com Filtering Dynamic Range Noise (excluding input-referred no ise) Sampling Fr equency Filter Mode Bandwidth Rip ple Alias Attenuation 100/ n * MS/s Con ventional 100 MHz ±3 dB N/A 12.5 MS/s Flexible Resolution 3.
Appendix A Specifications © National Instruments Corporat ion A-5 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Distortion T imebase System Reference clock .......................... ............ 10 MHz Clock accuracy (as master) .. .............. .... 10 MHz ±50 ppm Clock input tolerance (as slave) .
Appendix A Specifications NI PCI-5911 User Manual A-6 ni.com Clock jitter .............. .............. ................. .<75 pS rms , independent of reference cloc k source Clock compatibility ....................... .........TTL fo r both input and output Sampling clock frequencies Conventional mode .
Appendix A Specifications © National Instruments Corporat ion A-7 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Sampling Methods Random interleaved sampling ................ 1 GS/s down to 200 MS/s effective sample rate, repetit ive signals only Real-time sampling .......
Appendix A Specifications NI PCI-5911 User Manual A-8 ni.com Calibration Self-calibration (inter nal calibration) .....Self-calibrati on is done using a software command. The calibration involves g ain, offset and linearity correction for all input ranges and input modes.
Appendix A Specifications © National Instruments Corporat ion A-9 NI PCI-5911 User Manual CE Compliance This product meets the essential re quirements of applicable European Directi ves, as amended f.
© National Instruments Corporat ion B-1 NI PCI-5911 User Manual B T echnical Support and Professional Ser vices Visit the following sections of the National Instruments Web site at ni.
Appendix B T echnica l Support and Professional Services NI PCI-5911 User Manual B-2 ni.com If you searched ni.com and could not find the answers you need, contact your local off ice or NI corporate h eadquarters. Phone numbers for our worldwide of f ices are listed at the front of this manual.
© National Instruments Corporat ion G-1 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Glossar y Symbol Pref ix V alue pp i c o 1 0 –1 2 nn a n o 1 0 –9 µ micro 10 –6 m milli 10 –3 k kilo 10 3 Mm e g a 1 0 6 Gg i .
Glossary NI PCI-5911 User Manual G- 2 ni.com A C coupled the passing of a signal through a filter network that remov es the DC component of t he signal ADC analog-to-digital con ver ter—an electroni.
Glossary © National Instruments Corporat ion G-3 NI PCI-5911 User Manual clock hardware component that controls timing for reading from or writing to groups CMRR common-mode rejection ratio—a measu.
Glossary NI PCI-5911 User Manual G- 4 ni.com E EEPR OM electrically erasable programmabl e read-only memory—R OM that can be erased with an electrical signal and reprogrammed equiv alent time sampli.
Glossary © National Instruments Corporat ion G-5 NI PCI-5911 User Manual input impedance the measured resistance and capacitan ce between the input terminals of a circuit instrument driv er a set of high-lev el software functions t hat controls a specific plug-in D A Q board.
Glossary NI PCI-5911 User Manual G- 6 ni.com N noise an undesirable electri cal signal—noise comes from external sources such as the A C power line, motors, generators, transform ers, fluorescent li.
Glossary © National Instruments Corporat ion G-7 NI PCI-5911 User Manual pretriggering the technique used on a device to k eep a buf fer filled with data, so that when the trigger conditions are met , the sample includes the data leading up to the trigger condition PXI PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation.
Glossary NI PCI-5911 User Manual G- 8 ni.com sense in four -wire resistance the sense m easures the v oltage across the resistor being excited by the e xcitation current settling time the amount of ti.
Glossary © National Instruments Corporat ion G-9 NI PCI-5911 User Manual V Vv o l t s V AC volts alternating current VDC volts direct current V error voltage error VI virtual instrument—(1) a combi.
© National Instruments Corporat ion I-1 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Index A AC coupling, 2-4 accuracy characteristics, A-3 acquisition multiple record, 2-11 Scope Soft Front Panel, 1-4 acquisition charac.
Index NI PCI-5911 User Manual I-2 ni.com E errors during acquisition, 2-8 example code, B-1 F filtering specifications, A-4 flexible resolu tion mode available sampling rates (table), 2-6 definition, .
Index © National Instruments Corporat ion I-3 NI PCI-5911 User Manual Declaration of Conformity, B-1 professional services, B-1 system integration services, B-1 technical support, B-1 worldwide offic.
Index NI PCI-5911 User Manual I-4 ni.com specifications acquisition characteristics accuracy, A-3 common-mode characteristics, A-3 distortion, A-5 dynamic range, A-4 filtering, A-4 acquisition modes, .
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