New Signal-Processing and Interface Board for SIOS-Interferometers

 

Effective immediately, unless otherwise agreed in individual cases, SIOS will be supplying the RE‑10‑board, instead of our RE‑06‑board, as part of all orders, with no change in pricing.

 

The new board offers much better performance than the RE‑06:

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• As many as four interferometer channels may be synchronously handled simultaneously. Only a single board will be needed where a separate board for each channel was formerly required. The RE-10 provides continuous scanning rates extending up to 20 kHz. The RE‑10 has just a single, high-performance, block mode providing scan rates extending up to 12.5 MHz and a 64‑k‑sample buffering depth, which represents a major improvement on the 32‑k‑sample buffering depth at 1 MHz of the RE‑06.
• More flexible, higher-performance, triggering modes are now available at three triggering inputs, which allows, e.g., triggering the start of a run while simultaneously triggering the logging of displacement measurements.
• In addition to the standard Windows support, the Linux operating system is now also supported.

Converting your existing SIOS instrument to using the RE‑10‑board will therefore pay off in all technical senses.

 

As on the RE‑06, the new RE‑10‑board is equipped with both a USB‑interface and an RS‑232‑interface. 

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However, its interfaces are incompatible with those of our RE‑06‑board. 

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In order to simplify the migration of existing applications software, its USB‑interface has a compatibility layer, i.e., newer versions of the SIOSUSB.DLL formerly available for integrating our RE‑06‑board are also able to address our RE‑10‑board. However, in that case, the latter’s new features will hardly be utilizable.  We therefore explicitly recommend utilizing our new SIOSIFM.DLL programming interface for all new developments.

 

However, our RE‑10-board’s RSC‑232 serial interface continues to utilize the same protocol as that utilized when transmitting data via its USB‑interface.

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​Unfortunately, that means that the serial interfaces of the two boards are no longer intercompatible.  Software that utilizes its serial interface will thus have to be adapted to take account of that. 

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We will be pleased to help you in that conjunction. Please contact us!

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