The LabSmith LC880 coordinates, integrates and synchronizes complicated physical experiments. With eight timing channels, logic-based triggering, unique timing modes and 10 ns resolution, the LC880 outperforms a rack full of equipment.
Controlling and synchronizing experimental equipment can be tedious. Researchers are regularly forced to build controls from scratch or to piece together systems from the limited tools on the market. For every hour of true research, a hundred hours are lost to tracking loose cables, taming noisy signals, adjusting quirky timing and other aggravating chores.
LabSmith designed the LC880 to coordinate, integrate and synchronize complicated physical experiments, simply and affordably. With eight timing channels, logic integration, unique timing modes and 10 ns resolution, the LC880 outperforms a rack full of digtal delay generators, gates, timers, filters and cables, all for the price of a single delay.
Applications
- Particle Imaging Velocimetry system timing
- Multi-laser and -camera optical combustion analysis systems
- Synchronise to rotating mechinery
- Mems-BioMems research
- Materials testing
- Gas Dynamics
Features
- Complete toolkit for timing and triggering laboratory experiments
- 8 inputs channels with sophisticated logic, frequency division, gating and filtering functions
- 8 outputs with independently programmable clock, digital delay or timer function
- Controlled by easy to use stand-alone program or LabView plug-in
- Advanced modes like swept delay or conditional delay
- 10 ns resolution and 100 ps accuracy
- Field-updatable software and firmware
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Innovative Software, Unique Controller
The LC880 consists of both ground-breaking software and a programmable hardware controller. Trigger(tm) experimental design software makes it easy to create sophisticated control schemes from a PC, with a built-in compiler that can accept C-style assignments and operations.
The LC880 hardware controller can function as part of a computer-based control system using Trigger or LabView(tm), or it can operate in stand-alone mode. With the LC880 linked to your computer, you'll quickly program, refine and expand experiments. Using stand-alone mode, you can store and recall up to 64 complete settings, then trigger and monitor an experiment from the LC880 front panel. You'll have the flexibility to design experiments offline, then to embed the controller in your test environment for "set and forget" operation.
A Rack Full of Timing in a Single Box
With a single LC880 you can synchronize cameras, lasers, shutters, choppers, solenoids, igniters, etc. Each of the eight logic channel can operate as a clock, digital delay, delayed trigger, counter, and more, all with 10 ns resolution and programmable trigger logic.
What's more, the LC880 brings you functions that are simply not available elsewhere. "Dynamic delay triggering" lets you reliably capture elusive phenomena, basing its delay time on a real-time measurement. This unique mode lets you control uncertain timing situations, such as synchronizing a flash to a passing projectile, or timing the spark in a cyclic combustion system. Another mode, false-trigger suppression, helps tame noisy signals and prevents unwanted triggering in sub-optimal environments. You can even employ safety interlocks and switches to toggle between operating modes (free-run, single-shot, calibration), all without jumper cables or external logic.
LC880 architecture:
8 inputs, timing channels and outputs
with flexible logic and routing
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A Wealth of Applications, the Price of a Single Delay
The LC880 goes far beyond the functions of a digital delay generator, pulse generator, logic delay or logic controller, integrating all of these functions and more in a single unit. The LC880 is field proven daily in gas dynamics, fluid flow, and material science experiments at national research facilities and major universities worldwide. In applications from gas dynamics to fracture mechanics, the LC880 is earning its place among function generators, oscilloscopes and power supplies as an indispensable lab tool. |
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