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Ionetrics Annotator Jr ( Discontinued )

 IRIG Driven Event Time Stamps

Annotator Jr

 Features

  • Hardware event triggers
  • Decodes modulated IRIG-B including BCD time of day, BCD year, straight binary seconds, and control function bits as per IRIG 200-04 specification
  • Flexible event triggering options
    • Rising or falling edge
    • Switch closure or opening
    • Trigger input compatible with LVTTL, TTL, and CMOS outputs
    • Arbitrary analog trigger inputs can be accommodated as well
  • Powered directly over USB, by an AC/DC adapter, or an internal battery
  • Continues to operate even when detached from a USB port
  • 100 hour battery life without recharging (3 week battery life in low power mode)
  • Generates IRIG time stamps without complicated and expensive PCI based time code boards
  • Decodes IRIG time and transmits over USB or records to on-board memory
  • Transmits current time and event times over USB to user applications
  • Records time tags for one shot events or high speed multiple events
    • Supports event rates up to 5 kHz when recording to RAM (capacity for up to 500 events)
    • Supports event rates up to 1 kHz when recording to flash memory (capacity for up to 40,000 events)
    • Supports event rates up to 250 Hz when streaming across USB
  • Can be used as a generic, flexible remote start interface for end user applications
  • Operates in a free running mode in the absence of an IRIG input (0.1 millisecond per hour maximum time drift)
  • Event time accuracy of ±50 microseconds

 Inputs

  • IRIG-B time code (modulated)
  • Event trigger (TTL, LVTTL, Switch opening and closure)

 Outputs

  • Event trigger time stamps

 Software Support

  • Includes AJ application software with easy to use GUI based interface
    • Provides simple dialogs for configuring the hardware
    • Includes functions for downloading event times from RAM or flash
    • Displays recorded event times in table format
    • Saves downloaded event times as text files or Excel spreadsheets
  • Optional Java SDK (includes AJ source)

Manual
Annotator Jr Manual

Drivers
Download Annotator Jr Drivers for Windows 2000 and XP

AJ
User-friendly control and acquisition application software for the Annotator Jr

libAnnotatorComm
Unified communications library for the Annotator line of products

Price List
Current pricing for Annotator Jr and accessories

IRIG 200-04
IRIG 2004 Specification

IRIG 200-98
IRIG 1998 Specification