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Sigma - Model AMCS 5 -Multi Channel Scalers
Originally designed for NASA GSFC’s Cloud Physics LiDAR (CPL) instrument, the AMCS-5 card collected excellent data in several campaigns on the high-altitude ER-2 aircraft in such campaigns such as SAFARI 2000 and CRYSTAL-FACE. The AMCS-5 card also is used in NASA GSFC’s Thickness from Off-beam Returns (THOR) LiDAR system. In addition, the AMCS-5 was put to use in several commercial stand-off detection systems.
The AMCS-5 is a five input multichannel scaler card to be used in pulse counting, integrating, and histogramming applications. The AMCS-5 accepts five different pulse inputs that are counted simultaneously based upon a single Sync input signal. In addition, there are two generic pulse outputs and a third accumulation delay pulse indicating the start of an integration cycle. Parameters such as time resolution per bin, number of bins, accumulation delay, number of accumulations, and pulse polarity are set by the user via software control. A host CPU is notified of a completed integration cycle via a bus interrupt or by polling an internal status register. The AMCS-5 card is in a PC/104 form factor (3.6 inches by 3.8 inches) and is intended to be used in a stacked PC/104 application utilizing the PC/104 ISA Bus.
- Low Power (2.5Watts for all 5 Input Channels)
- PC/104 Form Factor (3.6" x 3.8")
- Flexible and Programmable Architecture