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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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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Software
Test and Control Software is also available for several of our products. All of our software is designed by Pulse Instruments for optimum flexibility and control. Please fill out the following form to request an evaluation copy.
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Pattern Generator
PI-2005
As a test engineer or digital designer you must have state-of-the-art tools to test, characterize and verify your complex semiconductor devices and digital circuit boards. The PI-2005 Pattern Generator will generate a wide range of simple or complex digital patterns for any test application that requires a serial or parallel digital data stream. To meet the requirements of complex devices and digital circuits, the pattern generator can be configured from 16 to 64 output channels.
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65 MHz Single Channel Driver Card
40490
One channel, 65 MHz driver with an output voltage capability of ±20V. There are two inputs--a standard input with up 65 MHz capability and an optically isolated input with 20 MHz capability. Either input can be selected.
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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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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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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.
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SystemSolutions
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 yourdevice, not on your test system.
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Visible / Infrared / Imaging Test System
System 1808
Testing Low-voltage CCDs and IR FPAs; Military, science-grade and medical CCDs or IR FPAs; CMOS ROICs and multiplexers; CMOS sensors. 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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GPIB Interface Card
PI-31000
The Pulse Instruments PI-31000 IEEE Interface Card is a standard GPIB Interface card offered by National Instruments. This interface card is used in applications where the PI-2005 Pattern Generator or other instruments are controlled from a remote system CPU, or it can be used as the system controller when the CompactPCI CPU is the system computer.
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Clock Drivers
Multiple timing signals ("clocks") are required by CCDs, IR FPAs, and some CMOS image sensors to transport electrical charge across the array to a sense amplifier for conversion into image data. Pulse Instruments offers a line of "clock drivers" for generating these timing signals. The parameters of these clocks (clock rate, pulse width, pulse amplitude, rise- and fall-times, etc.) greatly influence the behavior and performance of the imaging device. Our products take logic-level inputs from a pattern generator and allow the user to adjust the output parameters to suit their device and testing requirements. Clocks can be "tweaked" in real-time to determine optimal operating parameters for a particular device, or else programmed in accordance with a test plan for automated production test.
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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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Instrument Mainframe
PI-11006
The PI-11006 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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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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Data Acquisition
For devices with analog outputs, we are now shipping our new multi-channel data acquisition system. This high-speed, low-noise solution is highly modular, so you can test scientific CCDs and high-speed machine-vision CMOS sensors with the same basic system. Swappable pre-amps and A/D converter modules enable you to reconfigure your test system to fit your needs.
