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News Release from: Adept Scientific | Subject: MMC PCI data-acquisition with Dasylab
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 June 2001
Versatile PCI-based data acquisition
According to Adept Scientific, data-acquisition boards from Measurement Computing with Dasylab software provide an impressive PC-based data-acquisition solution.
According to Adept Scientific, PCI data-acquisition boards from Measurement Computing with Dasylab software provide an impressive PC-based data-acquisition solution to display results from multiple strain gauge installations With the effort and expertise required to use strain gauge transducers properly, it's essential that the electronics and software for measuring and displaying the signals are accurate, reliable and versatile
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Engineers often want to measure and display high speed signals from accelerometers, alongside a large number of slow-changing signals from thermocouples and strain gauges, etc.
Not only do these have to be recorded simultaneously, but the equipment needs to be versatile enough for it to be continuously reconfigured as development goes on, and it's almost essential that the data is immediately available on a PC in a standard Windows application for subsequent use.
Signal conditioning hardware allows accelerometers, thermocouples, displacement transducers and strain gauges to all be connected to a multichannel MMC PCI data-acquisition board.
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The signal conditioning hardware provides excitation, amplification and can auto-zero signals to remove static offsets.
Although there is a lot of good hardware around for capturing fast signals, the key is to sample as slowly as is consistent with getting good data and to focus the speed only on the areas of real interest.
With the MCC/Dasylab combination, Adept Scientific claims an optimal solution.
Most importantly of all, the element of the system, which needs the real 'tweaking', the signal conditioning, is separated to allow that to be done in isolation, and the PC interfacing is in the hands of low-cost, fit-and-forget hardware.
The MCC data-acquisition boards offer autocalibration, onboard references and many more useful features.
Dasylab is one of the most easy to use Windows data acquisition software applications.
It enables the signals to be measured, recorded and displayed in a straightforward but highly versatile way.
Designed for industrial research and scientific laboratories, its simplicity makes the application ideal for anyone with no PC programming experience - but even users who do have programming skills will benefit from the speed with which systems can be set up and subsequently developed.
It supports a wide range of data acquisition hardware from all leading manufacturers.
Dasylab includes a wide range of function blocks - analogue inputs and outputs, RS232 inputs and outputs, digital I/Os, user-definable triggers, function generators, virtual instruments and analysers, and mathematical, statistical and logical operations - as well as output modules to record events to file.
Function blocks can be combined in almost unlimited ways, within worksheets of any size, to allow real-time data analysis of even the most complex systems.
Users can zoom in on a specific event or data point, scroll back to study historical trends and monitor events as they happen.
For users needing even more functionality, an extended edition of Dasylab is available.
The additional modules include FFT/spectral analysis; data windowing; digital filter; regression; correlation; and an event-driven action module. Request a free brochure from Adept Scientific ...
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