January 17, 2008 – Albuquerque, NM – ZTEC Instruments introduces the ZT4610 EPICS oscilloscopes designed specifically to operate in the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) environment. In fact, the ZT4610 EPICS units are the first self-contained high performance digital oscilloscopes designed with a built-in EPICS IOC (Input/Output controller).
These small, 1U height, half-rack width, rack mountable, high channel-density oscilloscopes provide powerful features that are normally found only on much larger benchtop instruments. EPICS oscilloscopes are ideal for particle accelerator oscilloscope applications, where fast signal acquisition, waveform math and analysis, and high channel-density are crucial.
All ZT4610 EPICS units include an internal EPICS IOC with Channel Access to publish close to 400 process variables (PVs) for control and querying of nearly all scope functions. The PV names can be modified by users to reflect local naming conventions and avoid conflict with other instruments on the network.
For non-EPICS users, there also exits a ZT4610 LAN series of products. The LAN units are the same as the ZT4610 EPICS units except that they do not have the internal EPICS IOC.
The ZT4610 EPICS and ZT4610 LAN units, with their Ethernet connectors, offer complete remote instrument control including the ability to view waveform data and to transfer data and setup files from anywhere, as long as the user has access to the instrument’s IP address.
These high-performance oscilloscopes come in 2 and 4 channel versions. Key specifications include 1 GHz analog bandwidth, up to 4 GS/s real-time sampling, and up to 64Mpoint record lengths. The ZT4610 series calculates over 40 waveform parameters and includes 4 calculation channels for performing basic and advanced math on acquired data. Math functions include add, subtract, multiply, integration, differentiation, FFT, histograms, parameter trending and many more.
Free instrument drivers from ZTEC enable users to programmatically control the ZT4610. Drivers are available for key programming environments including LabVIEW, LabWindows/CVI, MATLAB, COM, Visual C/C++, Visual Studio and others.
Additionally, ZTEC offers free ZScope control and display software and the ZFind instrument locator and configuration utility. The intuitive ZScope soft front panel application, with the look and feel of a benchtop instrument, gives users complete control of the instrument and displays acquired waveforms, math waveforms, and waveform parameter data. ZFind enables users to easily identify which ZTEC instruments are installed on the current host. ZFind also lets users send commands to connected instruments and read back information from those instruments.
Visit the EPICS oscilloscope page for more information.
