Appendix A Specifications
NI 5102 User Manual A-2 ni.com
Input signal ranges (CH0, CH1)
(without probe attenuation) ....................±5 V at gain of 1
±1 V at gain of 5
±0.25 V at gain of 20
±50mVatgainof100
Input coupling.........................................AC or DC, software-selectable
Overvoltage protection ...........................±42 V (DC + peak AC < 10Khz
without external attenuation)
CH0, CH1, TRIG only
Onboard FIFO memory depth ................663,000 samples
Max waveform buffer.............................Up to 16 million samples on each
channel on NI 5102 (PCI, PXI)
with bus mastering, depends on
available host memory
663,000 samples on
NI 5102 (ISA, PCMCIA)
Data transfers..........................................Programmed I/O supported on all
boards; direct-to-memory burst
transfers with PCI bus mastering
on NI 5102 (PCI, PXI) only
Timebase System
Timebase.................................................20 MHz
Clock accuracy .......................................100 ppm
Interpolator resolution ............................1 ns
External clock.........................................RTSI TRIG<1..6> or PFI<1..2>;
Frequency ≤ 20 ΜΗzwith
a 50% duty cycle;
RTSI<0..6> and PFI<1..2>
are CMOS/TTl inputs only.
