The core challenge in pulse detection is to design a system for random events. The Teledyne SP Devices’s firmware option FWPD, for the ADQ14 and ADQ7, is tailored to detected and analyze pulses in demanding measurement applications where the properties of the pulses (such as timing or length) are not known in advance.

With high sampling rate, high vertical resolution, and sophisticated signal processing methods, regions of interest are distinguished and collected. Since only the regions of interest are collected, and all other data is suppressed, the magnitude of data reduction is significant.