Do you sometimes need deeper acquisition memory than you have in your digitizer or scope?
When
you buy a new scope or digitizer, do you struggle with just how much of that
expensive scope memory you should load it up with, "just in case?"
M1 Virtual Deep Memory™ is a suite of sophisticated analysis tools that
provides you with a virtual acquisition memory space that is many times
larger than the physical acquisition memory space of the oscilloscope or digitizer
itself. These tools are designed to give you an unfair advantage in
performing the most common tasks, like:
Tracking down very infrequent, seemingly hidden pathologies (debug)
Efficiently collecting large quantities of measurement results into well-organized
datasets that integrate into your offline measurement database
(characterization/ environmental test).
M1
Virtual Deep Memory continues ASA's track record as the imagination of
the oscilloscope and digitizer industry. It will save you money. It will save you
time. It will give you an unfair advantage against the things that get
between you and delivering your device/system on time.
VDM Provides the Equivalent of Deep Acquisition Memory in Your Oscilloscope
Most oscilloscope and digitizer users don't buy the deepest acquisition memory that is available to them. It is very expensive and no one ever knows exactly
how much they really need in advance. And even when it is available, it
is not readily utilized because engineers don't have the software tools
to visualize and work with deep memory properly. To many engineers,
deeper memory means that you have more cycles of the waveform to look
through to find abnormalities. That isn't an exciting process. Memory
depth does matter for many applications.
Can you use M1 Virtual Deep Memory instead of Physical Deep Memory?
ASA Corp has performed hundreds of "rescue" consults (the kind of thing
where someone pays an expert to uncover your blind spots). In nearly
every one of them, the memory depth that was available on site was more
than enough. But the software analysis tools and the expertise to use
them were lacking.
Only ASA Corp has thought about deep memory in ways that will make the
acquisition memory depth that you have in your scope today more useful.
The screen shot below shows the wizard that comes up when you request
to make a virtual deep memory measurement. This wizard provides you
with quick access to the features inside M1 Oscilloscope Tools
depending on exactly what problem you want to solve or what analysis
you want to make.
With M1 Virtual Deep Memory you may not actually need really deep physical
acquisition memory. Depending on your task, you could be doing a whole
lot more than your current digitizer or oscilloscope can do today by adding M1
Waveform Tools to your system.
You paid dearly for your older high-performance digitizers or oscilloscopes.
They were the state of the art then, but now might suffer from insufficient
memory or reduced analysis capability, even though they are still solid
acquisition engines.
M1 VDM coupled with the ability to inexpensively bring these scopes' or digitizers' software analysis capabilities up to the state-of-the-art
constitutes the least expensive Service-Life Extension Program (SLEP)
that you will ever find.
Enterprise licensing is available to make the costs drastically lower, and the organizational benefit drastically higher.
Give your mid-range digitizer or oscilloscope the abilities of higher-cost hardware
(deeper memory, broader and more sophisticated analysis) very inexpensively.
Investigating the purchase of a NEW OSCILLOSCOPE or DIGITIZER?more
M1 Waveform Tools is designed to breathe new life into your existing scope inventory.
M1 Waveform Tools and its ability to inexpensively bring your existing
waveform source's software analysis capabilities up to the
state-of-the-art constitutes the least expensive Service-Life
Extension Program (SLEP) that you will ever find.
This M1 Service Life Extension Program will pay for itself in a number of ways:
The deep memory you DON'T have to purchase will pay for M1 many times over for each scope!
The scopes you DON'T have to purchase in order to get analysis capabilities that presently don't reside in your current fleet.
Note: In other ASA Corp literature, when trying to track down very
infrequent, seemingly hidden pathologies, we have said that continuous
capture is superior to first-cycle measurement. This would seem to
indicate that deep memory is vastly superior for this. Based on years
of experience of consulting on hundreds of the most difficult debug
problems, once you have enough memory to capture a few tens of
thousands of continuous events, additional continuous memory no longer
provides much benefit when searching for rare events versus taking more
acquisitions at a shallower memory depth. A case study that
demonstrates this is the "1-in-17,000 Repeating Rare Event" case study.
