Product category:
Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: Microstar Laboratories | Subject: DAP 840 with DAPstudio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 May 2006
Board and software enable real-time
acquisition
The combination of the DAP 840 board with the new DAPstudio software is a development and runtime package to create the real-time solution users need and the Windows product they want.
End users often need a real-time solution but want a Windows product; and now OEMs can give them both Microstar Laboratories has combined the DAP 840 board with the new DAPstudio software as a development and runtime package to help create the real-time solution users need and the Windows product they want
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Jul 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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DAPstudio makes it easy to develop a PC-based measurement and control system with one or more DAP boards.
Each DAP board gives the system an additional processor running a real-time operating system - DAPL - that is controlled from a Windows application.
This extra resource gives room to make applications even better.
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It frees the application from system delays.
It lets systems designers apply computing power when and where needed.
It means a system can sample data and control a process anywhere, anytime.
Two or more DAP boards, in the same PC or on a network, can work together as a single synchronised system using DAP-to-DAP communications.
DAPstudio can be used to develop a system like this, and DAPstudio can run it from a PC on the network - with no custom PC software or PC software from other vendors.
Microstar Laboratories recently delivered a 16-board system to a customer with exactly that requirement.
DAP boards acquire data by converting analogue signals into digital values.
These stream through conceptual pipes that you set up in DAPstudio.
The onboard processor performs any required operations as it transfers data from pipe to pipe.
Operations can be chosen from the more than 100 available in DAPL.
A typical application may require six or seven of them.
The commands issued to DAPL determine exactly what low-level tasks the DAP will perform, and how it will respond with control signals.
The commands configure the DAP for the application.
DAPstudio lets users specify commands by clicking on the appropriate tools as they design the system, and it then lets them save the working configuration as a complete DAP application.
At each step in the development process, the next step presents itself as both obvious and compelling.
An optional Developer's Toolkit for DAPL lets users rewrite any sequence of DAPL commands - or any algorithm - as a single custom command in C or C++.
One or more of these custom commands form an application-specific command module, downloaded to DAPL on system start-up.
DAPstudio, or any other Windows application that uses DLLs, then can use these custom commands as well as the built-in DAPL commands.
If an application-specific command module is required, Microstar Laboratories can design it.
Microstar Laboratories offers DAP boards and DAPstudio software with quantity and OEM pricing holding the package cost below $1200.
And for a limited period, a development system also costs less than $1200.
The company provides unrestricted versions of both hardware and software for evaluation at no charge.
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