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Spectrum Instrumentation, founded in 1989, develops and manufactures ultra-fast and high-resolution PC products for signal capture and signal generation. We use a unique modular concept that allows us to offer over 200 different digitizers and arbitrary waveform generators (AWGs) that are available as PC cards (PCIe and PXIe) and stand-alone Ethernet devices (LXI). Thanks to this extensive product range, we can provide you with the perfect solution tailored to your needs.
At the same time, we offer comprehensive software support, including drivers for various operating systems, drivers for 3rd party software, as well as more than 50 different Linux distributions. With SBench6 we also provide you with very powerful, interactive and easy to use measurement software.
Today, our customer base includes international industrial companies as well as leading universities and institutions. For example, our products are used in the particle accelerator of CERN as well as in quantum research - because the products are so low-noise and precise that they can even be used to direct individual atoms.
With our international service and sales network, we are represented in the markets that are important for us - in Europe, Asia, Australia and the USA. This enables us to deliver on our core service promise outside of Europe and to guarantee individual support for our customers – already in more than 39 countries!
Gisela Hassler CEO
Oliver Rovini CTO
Carsten Gralla MD
"At Spectrum, we see service as our core mission. The needs of our customers are our highest priority."
Above all, service means good communication in order to understand your requirements and find the optimal solution for your company. With us, you can always speak directly with the developers and engineers - or with one of our experienced local partners. Short delivery times are just as much a part of our service as individual technical adaptations, where we precisely implement your specifications.
Enthusiasm for technology and the pursuit of perfection play the greatest role in the development of our products.
It is our ambition to manufacture technically high-quality, well-engineered and durable products in the spirit of sustainability. Our team of engineers is continuously developing new product lines and perfecting existing ones. With more than 30 years of experience we achieve the highest quality standards. Furthermore, the needs, suggestions and requirements of our customers are always given special attention in the development of new products.
Testing, configuration and start-up of the products is done in-house, combined with permanent process optimization. As high quality and reliability are of special importance to us, we have developed our own quality management system for multi-stage, automatic test procedures. The inspections and tests performed on all of our products include comparative measurements of all the relevant parameters that are listed in the data sheet. The measured values are recorded and analyzed to improve product quality and to detect any deviations at an early stage. Permanent evaluation of the results ensures the highest product quality.
We totally believe in the high quality of our products. This is particularly reflected in the 5-year warranty they come with as standard. It is our ambition and target at Spectrum to achieve continuous improvement in what we do. And we want you and your company to benefit from it!
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1989
Spectrum was founded by Gisela Hassler and Michael Janz with the business objective of developing custom-built instrumentation. They started developing an own product line and created the first ISA card in 1991. This digitizer card with 50 MHz and 8 bit called "PAD52" was sold for 17 years until 2008! Many other ISA digitizers and the first Arbitrary-Waveform-Generator-cards followed in the next years.
1996
Spectrum created its first 12 bit digitizer card for the new bus standard PCI with a sampling rate of 80 MS/s. Many other PCI based cards followed.
2000
Oliver Rovini, who joined the company in 1995 as a software engineer, takes over the position of the Technical Manager after founder Michael Janz left the company. It was Oliver's idea to build modular PCI products, consisting of the same platform card and several different modules. This quickly led to a large range of digitizers, AWGs and digital I/O boards named "MI-series".
2004
Based on the existing MI series and with the benefit of the modular system, a complete range of CompactPCI and PXI cards were launched. Second, Spectrum introduced the M2i series, the successor of the MI cards with a better interface, more memory and more features. From 2000 to 2004, thanks to the modular system, the number of different products grew from 18 to 170! And third, in April the company moved to a much larger building with special areas for the development, production and office.
2007
All 90 cards of the M2i-series became available as PCI Express version – the latest bus standard for PC based systems.
2008
SBench 6 measurement software was introduced. The software is intuitive to use for comfortable and fast data acquisition and analysis of GByte of analog and digital data in addition to its powerful export and report functions. SBench 6 quickly became a very popular tool.
2009
In the year 2009, the M3i series was introduced, starting with a 500 MS/s digitizer and followed by a digitizer card reaching 1 GS/s speed a year later. Meanwhile, the cards of the MI and M2i series were successfully sold around the world, being used in many companies, universities and for many OEM products. All three series formed a range of 320 different products!
2011
Spectrum delivered 140 digitizer cards to CERN. Since then, they are used to control the Beam Dumping System of the LHC, the largest particle accelerator in the world.
2013
To support the growing business in Asia, Spectrum appointed Gregory Tate as Asian Business Manager. Greg has 30 years of experience in electronics and a deep knowledge of digitizer technology, modular instrumentation and their applications in the Asian market.
A totally new product group was launched, the "digitizerNETBOX". This stand-alone unit contains two Spectrum digitizer cards, offering up to 16 fully synchronized data acquisition channels in one small box with full remote control via Ethernet/LXI from any PC or network.2014
Spectrum released the M4i series with 5 GS/s sampling speed! These very fast cards opened new application areas down into the sub-nanosecond range.
2015
In the beginning of this year, Spectrum opened its own US office caring for the growing US market and the increasing number of manufacturing representatives. In over 30 other countries, Spectrum already announced distributors to enhance the global sales.
The new M4i series was extended with Arbitrary Waveform Generators offering up to 1.25 GS/s of data generation rate.2016
Spectrum released PXIe version of all its fast M4i-series Digitizers and AWGs. The PXIe cards share the same driver interface and are 100 % software compatible with the PCIe cards.
Also, the larger version of the digitizerNETBOX was introduced: Containing up to 6 Spectrum cards, this stand-alone unit offers up to 48 synchronous channels in one 19" chassis with total remote control via Ethernet/LXI.2017
Since the beginning, all Spectrum products are completely designed, built and tested in Germany showing an extremely low failure rate, so Spectrum increased the warranty for its products from 2 years to an industry-leading 5 years.
The quality of Spectrum cards can be seen e.g. at DESY in Hamburg, where they control all three particle accelerators for 15 years without problems, or in Antarctica, as the heart of an atmospheric measurement system of the Leibniz-Institute working precisely on its own for weeks and months in ice and snow.
Also, in this year, the "Spectrum Systementwicklung Microelectronic GmbH" changed its name to the internationally much more understandable "Spectrum Instrumentation GmbH".2018
Spectrum launched a new series called "M2p", with the PCIe platform board being only 168 mm in length, with many different modules forming digitizers in the range of 5 MS/s to 125 MS/s with up to 8 channels on a single card.
2019
With the release of AWGs for the M2p-series, Spectrum finished the replacement of the older product ranges MI, M2i and M3i and now had a modern range of nearly 200 instrumentation products, all designed within the last 5 years. The more than 400 obsolete products were still in production for existing customers to allow a smooth replacement inside the various projects.
6. December 2019 - 30th Anniversary
In 30 years, Spectrum was able to gain customers all around the world, including many A-brand industry-leaders, as well as 100's of different universities and research institutes.
Spectrum digitizers and AWGs are used in world-leading R&D projects, like a 256-channel digitizer system which helps the British company FLF to build a fusion reactor within 4 years.2020
Spectrum presented the hybridNETBOX, a multi-channel AWG and Digitizer in one box. This single instrument simultaneously generates, acquires and analyzes electronic signals. The first series offered six different models.
2021
Carsten Gralla joined Spectrum as new Managing Director, forming a powerful management team with founder and CEO Gisela Hassler, as well as Technical Director Oliver Rovini.
Also, eight more hybridNETBOX models were launched.2022
Spectrum introduced the world’s first digitizers using the full PCIe x16 Gen3 Interface for massive data streaming at 12.8 GB per second. The M5i digitizer cards sample at 6.4 GS/s with 12-bit resolution, streaming this huge amount of data continuously to CPUs or GPUs for processing.
2023
The new M5i digitizers offer a stunning combination of ultrafast 10 GS/s sampling speed, 12-bit vertical resolution and market-leading 12.8 GB/s data streaming over the PCIe bus. Additionally, a lot of useful features were launched: Higher bandwidth up to 4.7 GHz, multichannel option for up to 16 channels, special mode for endless streaming with 10 GS/s and a Digital Puls Generator.
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No.2305, Zuchongzhi Road
Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park
Pudong District
201203 Shanghai
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Room 2507, Building 23
18 Anningzhuang East Road
100085 Beijing, Haidian District
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info@yixintest.cn
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Offices: Guangzhou | Shanghai | Beijing | Xi'an | Suzhou | Chengdu | Hong Kong | Taiwan
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4-56-1 Kashiwa-cho Tachikawa-shi
1900004 Tokyo
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sales@mish.co.jp
Electronica Corp. IMT Division
Kanuma-dai 2-11-1-504, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara-shi,
Kanagawa-ken, 252-0223
Japan
www.imt-elk.com
+81 (0) 50-3498-9423
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#702 Halla Sigma Valley, #545 Dunchon-dearo
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Frankweg 25
2153 PD NIEUW-VENNEP
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Info@ttms.nl
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178 Paya Lebar Road '04-06
Singapore 409030
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+65-67456990
sales@genetroncorp.com
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TT&MS Total Test and Measurement Support
Frankweg 25
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www.ttms.nl
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Info@ttms.nl
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Greg Tate
8 Colchester Drive, Doncaster East 3109
Australia
+61 402130414
Greg.Tate@spectrum-instrumentation.com
support@spec.de
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178 Paya Lebar Road '04-06
Singapore 409030
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178 Paya Lebar Road '04-06
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7F-2 No 421 Sung Shan Road
Taipei 11083
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+886-2-2346-1520
sales@toptical.com.tw
Honghong Technologies Co., Ltd.
Floor 3, Dawan Technology Center Building, No. 99 Jingye 1st Road, Zhongshan District, Taipei City
www.hongtronics.com
+886-2-85015332
sales@hongtronics.com
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178 Paya Lebar Road '04-06
Singapore 409030
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401 Hackensack Ave, 4th Floor
Hackensack, NJ 07601
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+1 (201) 562-1999
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Countries / Regions:
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Offices: Guangzhou | Shanghai | Beijing | Xi'an | Suzhou | Chengdu | Hong Kong | Taiwan
Headquarters Address:the 6th Floor, Building C, Runhui Science and Technology Park,
No. 18 Shenzhou Road, Science City, Huangpu District, Guangzhou (510663)
www.hongcesys.com
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+86(0)20-38743233
sales@hkaco.com
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Spectrum is member of many different organizations that define, maintain and promote high-performance instrumentation standards.
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CE
CE marking is a indicator of a product conformity with EU legislation and enables the free movement of products within the European market. The CE marking effects to many product groups - as well to our PC instrumentation product line. The products are tested to ensure that they meet the requirements of the CE directives and a CE mark is affixed.
ROHS
Lead-free products - we do it unsolicited. The RoHS directive aims to restrict certain dangerous substances commonly used in electronic and electronic equipment. All PC cards of Spectrum are listed in category 9 "Monitoring and Control Instruments" of the European RoHS directive and are therefore not forced to be lead-free. Our ambition is to produce as many lead-free products as possible. All new boards are developed with lead-free components only. Existing products are changed to lead-free as soon as all components are available in a lead-free version.
REACH
The Regulation, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) is a European Community Regulation related to the safe use and identification of chemicals (Regulation (EC) Number 1907/2006). According to REACH Spectrum Instrumentation GmbH is a „downstream user". All Spectrum products are non-chemical products („articles") as defined in REACH. Under normal and foreseeable conditions of use no substances are intended to be released.
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