The Power processor is faster, up to 14x faster and the base memory is 128x larger, enabling more complex on-line analysis, seen for example in spike shape recognition, where the both the number of channels and the number of templates can be increased, with much faster shape matching. The Power can manage 32 spike shape channels, the Micro 16.
The number of ports on both models can be considerably expanded, and for very large numbers of signals, several 1401s can be synchronised to each other, or to an external source.
Waveform capture is fast on both. The Micro, multi-channel, can run at 500 kHz, the Power at 1 MHz.
The Power1401 has 16 waveform input ports, compared with 4 waveform inputs on an un-expanded Micro. There is an option of programmable gain on all 16 Power inputs. There are 4 waveform outputs at 16 bit resolution on the Power 1401 and 2 at 16 bits on the Micro. The Power waveform outputs may be increased to 8 with an optional expansion unit.
The Micro1401 is physically smaller, and somewhat lower in cost than the Power1401.
Read more information about Micro1401; more information about Power1401.
| Power1401 | Micro1401 | |||||||||
| Waveform input channels | 16, expandable to 48 | 4, expandable to 64 | ||||||||
| Waveform resolution | 16 bit | |||||||||
| Waveform output | 16 bit, 4 channels expandable to 8 | 16 bit, 2 channels | ||||||||
| Maximum sampling rate | 1 MHz (2 MHz single-channel) | 500 kHz | ||||||||
| ±5V or ±10V operation | software-switchable | |||||||||
| Event inputs | 8 channels, expandable | |||||||||
| Digital inputs and outputs | 16 bits in each direction | |||||||||
| Processor | 32-bit, 800 MHz | 32-bit, 90 MHz | ||||||||
| Memory | 512MB expandable to 1 GB | 4MB | ||||||||
| Synchronisation option | fitted as standard | |||||||||
| FFT time for 4096 points | 1 ms | 13.5 ms | ||||||||
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