N1081B
New
NIM Four-Fold Programmable Logic Unit
Features
- Double-width NIM unit
- Wide range of user-selectable functionalities: logic functions, counting, timing, digital pulse generator.
- 4 independent sections, each with:
- 6 NIM/TTL/ANALOG input
- 4 NIM/TTL output
- Input stage with Gate&Delay and Leading Edge Discriminator for analog input signals
- Output stage with Monostable capability
- 2.8” touch screen display with user-friendly widgets to configure each section and monitor real-time data
- Ethernet (1 Gbps) and USB2.0 connectivity
- Web-based Graphical User Interface to remotely control the module and access advanced features
- Python SDK and libraries available for free
Overview
The CAEN Mod.N1081B Four Fold Programmable Logic Unit is a laboratory tool that incorporates in a single NIM module the most common functionalities that you need to implement the logic capabilities of your experiment.
The module is organized in four sections, with 6 inputs and 4 outputs each accepting TTL/NIM signals, with the possibility to feed in analog signals and process them through a leading-edge discriminator. The input stage features an asynchronous Gate&Delay with 5 ns resolution while the output stage feature an asynchronous Monostable stage. This allows the user to trim at best the needed parameters and to perform accurate measurements using the available logic functions.
Each section is configurable independently according to one of the available pre-programmed functions. The board configuration can be performed using the 2.8” touch screen display or via the web-interface, accessible via USB or Ethernet.
On the touch screen interface, each function is associated to a widget, meant to be used for configuration and monitor purposes.
The web-interface allows the user to remotely configure the instrument via USB or Ethernet, monitor the functions output, dump data on file or history chart and access to the most advanced functions. No software installation is required!
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Technical Specifications
- General
Form Factor 2U NIM module
- No. of sections
- 4 sections, independently programmable.
- Possibility to daisy chain more sections to make them operate as a single function with multiple inputs.
- Functions
Logic
FANOUT, WIRE, AND, OR, OR+VETO, MAJORITY, MAJORITY+VETO, LUT, COINCIDENCECounter
SCALER, COUNTER, COUNTER TIMER, CHRONOMETER, RATE METERTiming
TIME, TAGGING, ToF, ToTGenerator
PULSE GENERATOR, DIGITAL GENERATOR, PATTERN GENERATOR
- Input
Nr. of inputs: 6 per section CH 3 and CH 6 may be reserved for special function
Connector: LEMO
Input impedance: 50 Ω / 1 kΩ
Signal type NIM/TTL/DISCR, DISCR is an arbitrary signal fed to the leading-edge discriminator
Min input width: 2 ns
Min input voltage: ±10 mV in DISCR mode
Gate and Delay stage:
- Gate: 15ns ÷ 10µs
- Delay: 0 ÷ 10µs
- Step: 5ns
- Resolution: ±1% ±3 ns
- Output
- Nr. of outputs: 4 per section
- Connector: LEMO
- Signal type: NIM/TTL
- Min output width: 5.5 ns Measured with -500 mV signal, -200 mV threshold, WIRE function
- Output NIM rise/fall time: ≤2.5 ns
- Output TTL rise/fall time: ≤6 ns Measured up to 1 MHz , WIRE function
- Output TTL Amplitude: 3.1 V
Monostable stage: - Width: 15 ns ÷ 1 µs
- Step: 5ns
- Resolution: ±1% ±3 ns
- Minimum I/O delay
- 30 ns – G&D and Monostable disabled
- 40 ns- G&D enabled, Monostable disabled
- 40 ns- G&D disabled, Monostable enabled
- 55 ns – G&D and Monostable enabled
Measured in WIRE mode
- Leading Edge Discriminator
Operation mode: - Time over Threshold (G&D and Monostable disabled)
- Non-updating (when Monostable output is enabled)
Min. input voltage: ± 10 mV
Max Input Voltage: ± 5.2V
Threshold range: [-800 mV ÷ 2.5 V]
Threshold step: 1 mV
Non linearity: 4% ± 6.5 mV
Efficiency:- – 3 mV threshold variation to pass from 0% to 100% of the trig rate
- Measured with -500 mV signal, WIRE function
Double pulse resolution - Time over threshold mode, NIM out : 10 ns à100 MHz
- Time over threshold mode, TTL out : 12.5 ns à 80 MHz
- Non-updating mode, 25 ns à 40 MHz
Reflections: ≤ 2% on input signals (measured with -200 mVpp signal)
Methodology note: all the technical specifications of the Leading Edge discriminator are based on the x1081B working in WIRE function, to replicate a standard discriminator unit
- Max. sustainable frequency
- Asynchronous functions, NIM out à 100 MHz
- Asynchronous functions, TTL out à 80 MHz
- Synchronous functions, à 40 MHz
- Scaler max. division rate à 130 MHz
Methodology note: these technical specifications are based on measurements done with 3.3 V pulses, 2 ns width, 400 mV threshold
- AND
Minimum overlap: 1.5 ns
- VETO
Veto must precede the event by at least 3 ns
- Timing functions
- Minimum detectable time: 13 ns
- Resolution: 10 ns
- Bin size: [10 ns ÷ 1s], up to 1024 bins
- Time reconstruction: t = 13 ns + bin size*bin number
- Pulse Generator
Signal type: NIM/TTL
Max. frequency: 20 MHz
Min. pulse width: 10 ns
- Connectivity
Ethernet (1Gbps) , USB 2.0
- Touchscreen
2.8” LCD, Transmissive type
- Software
- Touch screen widgets
- Web-based Graphical User Interface
- Power consumption
1.5 A @ 12V (Typ.)
- Environmental
Environmental: Indoor use
Operating Temperature: Operating Temperature -20 °C ÷ 50 °C
Operating Humidity: 25% ÷ 95% RH non condensing
Storage Temperature: -30 °C ÷ +80 °C
Storage Humidity: 5% ÷ 90% RH non condensing
Altitude: ≤2000 m
Pollution Degree: 2
Overvoltage Category: II
EMC Environment: Commercial and light industrial
IP Degree: IPX0 enclosure, not for wet location
- Regulatory
- EMC: CE 2014/30/EU Electromagnetic compatibility Directive
- Safety: CE 2014/35/EU Low Voltage Directive
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| WN1081BXAAAA | N1081B - Four Fold Programmable Logic Unit RoHS |