ADLINK Technology PCIe-7350 Express Digital I/O Board with Flexible I/O Features

ADLINK Technology Inc., a provider of test and measurement products, has announced the release of the PCIe-7350, an industry-leading PCI Express high-speed DIO card offering 32 channels of bi-directional parallel I/O lines with a data throughput of up to 200 MB/s and a clock rate up to 50 MHz from an internal timer or 100 MHz from an external clock. The PCIe-7350 is the latest addition to their series of PCI/PCI Express high-speed digital I/O cards.

The PCIe-7350 offers a high-throughput architecture with a flexible acquisition/generation timing and triggering features. ADLINK claims this makes it an ideal solution for high-speed digital pattern acquisition and generation for use in ATE, IC testing, image sensor testing, and video image recording/playback. The PCIe-7350 is based on the PCI Express interface (x1 lane), supports a selectable input/output direction per group of eight bits, and provides eight channels of auxiliary programmable I/O. An onboard FPGA provides additional I/O features such as triggers, clock signals, handshaking lines, and I2C and SPI control interfaces. These on-board interfaces enable the PCIe-7350 to communicate with external image sensors via I2C and SPI, without the need for an external control interfaces.

"As the resolution of image sensor increases, the image data throughput and higher pixel clock rate support of current solutions are becoming insufficient. A high-speed DIO card with flexible timing and trigger modes is now the ideal solution," stated James Gau, vice president of the measurement and automation product segment at ADLINK Technology. "ADLINK’s PCIe-7350 provides higher throughout and clock rates to increase testing speeds and thus lowers costs; its data throughput through the x1 PCI Express bus interface is sufficient for capturing high resolution image patterns at a high frame rate, which makes it an ideal solution today for image sensor testing."