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ATS9462 User Manual
Master/Slave Operation
You can use two or more ATS9462 digitizers in one system
to increase the number of channels for your application by
synchronizing digitizers using the appropriate SyncBoard.
The main trick in using multiple ATS9462 boards as
Master/Slave is to find a motherboard with the required
number of slots.
Currently, up to 16 channel (8 board) systems are supported
for ATS9462. For higher channel counts, contact the factory
for special system configuration.
Unlike other products on the market, ATS9462 does not
suffer from clock jitter between master and slave digitizers.
The unique design of the ATS9462 clock circuit provides a
buffered copy of the Master digitizer’s clock to itself and all
the slave digitizers, thereby maintaining a very low skew
between Master and Slave digitizer clocks.
Note that an ATS9462 Master/Slave system is capable of
triggering from any one of its input channels. This is valuable
in multi-channel detector applications that cannot predict the
input channel that is going to receive the first pulse.
With fully synchronous A/D conversion, arming and
triggering, an ATS9462 based Master/Slave system is an
ideal multi-channel transient analyzer.