Pulse Instruments
Pulse Instruments is a leading manufacturer of systems and equipment for characterization and production test of CMOS, CCD and IR image sensors, including science-grade devices. Science teams have used Pulse Instruments systems to extract maximum performance from several HST CCDs, including the chip in the most recently installed Advanced Camera System that is providing 10x the performance of its predecessor.
- (310) 515-5330
- sales@pulseinstruments.com
- 22301 S. Western Ave.
#107,
Torrance, CA 90501
United States of America
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Graphical Waveform Editor and Instrument
PI-PAT
Much more than just a visualization tool, PI-PAT is a full-fledged graphical waveform editor that allows you to spend more time testing and less time programming. PI-PAT doesn't require any programming experience or complicated syntax. Just draw or type patterns directly into the pattern window. Move a clock edge by dragging it. Adjust integration times by entering a single number. Change the output to your DUT by clicking the Update button. You'll never have to wrangle DSP or FPGA code with PI-PAT.
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Dual Channel Driver Card
42460
Two channels of 32 MHz clock drivers with up to 20 volt amplitude. The output voltage range is ±20 V, with independent high and low voltage settings. The inputs to the Card can be optically isolated. The card also contains voltage and current sense capability, which allows muxing of the current or voltage output measurements from all the Driver Channels in the system to a single DVM. The card allows independent programming of the rise and fall time of each channel one nanosecond increments.
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Dual Channel Clock Driver Card
PI-41400
The PI-41400 is a dual channel Clock Driver card capable of operating up to 190 MHz into a 50-ohm load and up to 80 MHz at an amplitude of 8 volts into a 1-megohm load. Into a high impedance load the output voltage range is from a –3 volts to 8 volts with the output pulse amplitude ranging from 0.5 V to 9 V. When driving a 50 load the voltage range is –1.5 volts to 4.5 volts with the output pulse amplitude ranging from 0.25 V to 4.5 V. The rise and fall times of the output pulse are variable from 1.2 ns to 9 ns into a 50-ohm load and <5 ns to 9 ns into a HiZ load. The output pulse amplitude and the load being driven determine the range of variability. The driver output can be set for tri-state operation and the output polarity can be set for ‘Normal’ or ‘Inverted’ operation through software.
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CMOS/CCD Production Test System
System 1828
The basic system consists of a 225 MHz pattern generator, 10 clock drivers, 6 DC biases, 1-4 channels of 10 MHz 14 bit analog data acquisition and/or 1-4 channels of digital acquisition. Additional options can be added to customize the system to meet your requirements.
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Mainframes
Our CompactPCI series mainframes are industry-standard, open-architecture chassis with enhancements to support Pulse Instruments' clock driver and DC bias cards. The enhancements are transparent to the CompactPCI specification, and 3rd-party cards CompactPCI/PXI cards can be used in our mainframes without hardware or software modification*.
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Low-Noise DC Bias
Imaging devices, such as CCDs, IR FPAs, and CMOS image sensors, require DC bias with very low electrical noise to prevent contamination of the image. Image quality can also be enhanced by carefully tuning each bias voltage to extract the maximum signal/noise ratio out of an array. Pulse Instruments has decades of experience providing DC bias supplies with the flexibility required tocharacterize and test a variety of devices while maintaining the noise immunity required for satellite and astronomy applications.
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Dual Channel Tri-Level Driver Card
40465
Two channels of 10MHz drivers, that can be operated as standard Two-Level Drivers or operated as two channels of Tri-Level Drivers. In the Two-Level mode, the input to each driver channel requires one channel of TTL level timing. Tri-and four level modes require a second clock input. In the Tri-Level Mode, the output from lowest rail to high rail can be 18.5V. Like the 40460 the rise and fall time as well as the high and low voltage levels of each channel is programmable.
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Characterization System
System 7700
Whether your application is characterizing a massive mosaic of CCDs for the next great observatory, designing a faster FLIR for a weapons-guidance system, or production-testing a CMOS image sensor for a digital camera, Pulse Instruments can supply you with a fully-integrated test system that allows you to focus on your your device, not on your test system.
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Instrument Mainframe
PI-11008
The PI-11008 Instrument Chassis was designed to accommodate the power and noise requirements of some of Pulse Instruments analog instrument cards. These instrument cards, such as the PI-41401, PI-41702 and others supply signal outputs that require more current from the -12 V supply than available in a standard chassis. Therefore this chassis has a larger -12 V power supply that provides 2.5 Amps.
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Pulse Instruments Data Acquisition and Test Software
PI-DATS
PI-DATS is Pulse Instruments Data Acquisition and Test Software, our user-friendly system software that allows complete control over Pulse Instruments test systems and test equipment. PI-DATS can dramatically increase your testing productivity by decreasing the amount of time it takes to set up and change test plans.
