Category Archives: Digital I/O

SIS1100e PEX8311 V2 EEPROM File

Posted on October 6, 2017 by mki

Prefetchable base address capability has to be enabled on the PEX8311 PCI Express to local bus bridge chip to perform 64-bit direct master or DMA transfers. This is of relevance on machines from 4 GB of memory on. The corresponding … Continue reading →

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SIS3820 Firmware with new LNE/CIP Features

Posted on December 13, 2014 by mki

Thanks to Mark Rivers from the University of Chicago for proposing  the incorporation of LNE/CIP delay, stretcher and invert functionality into the SIS3820 Multi Purpose Scaler firmware to facilitate the use of the LNE/CIP output to interface to external hardware. The … Continue reading →

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New SIS3820 APG Arbitrary Pattern Gernerator w. I/O firmware

Posted on June 12, 2013 by mki

The new firmware is targeted at the Inline and LVDS on LEMO 00.302 style connector hardware options. It features a 12 bit pattern generator (4 control and 8 frontend outputs) with external wait and wrap functionality. 12 input (4 control … Continue reading →

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SIS8900 Single Ended Rear Transition Module (RTM) shipping

Posted on December 2, 2011 by mki

The first batch of SIS8900’s came out of stuffing earlier this week. Information on the card can be found under www.struck.de/sis8900.html

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Charnokite X-ray fluorescense example with SIS3820 scaler and SIS3302 digitizer

Posted on November 25, 2011 by mki

The SIS3820 multi purpose scaler in MCS (Multi Channel Scaler) and the SIS3302 digitizer in MCA (Multi Channel Analyzer) mode can be used for continous scans at Synchrotron Radiation beamlines. The image (courtesy Dr. Karen Appel, Dr. Manuela Borchert and … Continue reading →

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SIS3820 Multi Purpose Scaler Firmware 0x010f Release

Posted on October 4, 2011 by mki

Early first time slice bug fix with channel N LNE source (with signal on channel N).   The mcs file is available under www.struck.de/sis3820010f.mcs

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Announcing the SIS8900 RTM for the SIS8300 Digitizer

Posted on August 1, 2011 by mki

The SIS8900 will be a single ended 50 Ohm impedance analog input RTM for the SIS8300 digitizer. Have a look at www.struck.de/sis8900.html also.

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New start/stop delay feature in SIS3820 clock distributor firmware

Posted on December 22, 2010 by mki

The SIS3820 clock module is used to distribute a synchronous clock to SIS330x digitizer boards. In addition it can be used as a clock fan out module for the start/stop signal. The most recent 0xE205 firmware has a 24-bit delay register which … Continue reading →

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