When using a modular digitizer to measure mechanical equipment, a variety of sensors are required to facilitate the conversion of mechanical parameters (such as force, acceleration, pressure, speed, etc.) into electrical signals that you can test. The key to choosing a digitizer is to have enough bandwidth, number of channels, and dynamic range to handle the sensors. digitizerNETBOX with 16-bit resolution supports a dynamic range of 96 dB and provides up to 16 analog input channels.

The acoustics research team in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University has put Spectrum's leading digitizers and signal generators at the heart of its new underwater acoustics lab. The lab simulates a miniaturized version of the ocean environment, enabling a wide range of experiments on the behavior of sound waves in different layers of water and how they are reflected in the ocean's most sampled surface materials, such as rock, sand or mud. Such miniaturized experiments require a high degree of precision in the measurement equipment in order to magnify the results to a realistic scale.

Spectrum offers an extremely wide range of digitizers and arbitrary waveform generators for ATE applications that require the capture, generation and analysis of electronic signals. Each digitizer card can have from one to sixteen channels to create instruments with up to hundreds of fully synchronized channels. They are ideal for applications that require monitoring of multiple signals or test points. Some cards also offer additional analog and digital I/O capabilities as well as advanced triggering and clocking options so they can work with different test instruments.