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News Release from: Microstar Laboratories | Subject: MSXB 076
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 June 2007
Analogue outputs are isolated against
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Signal-conditioning expansion board features eight single-ended analogue outputs, with an isolated ground for each output.
New from Microstar Laboratories, the MSXB 076 signal-conditioning expansion board features eight single-ended analogue outputs, with an isolated ground for each output Eight boards in a 19in rack-mountable industrial enclosure can connect to a single DAP board
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Jul 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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MSXB 076 boards, as output boards, do not themselves include signal conditioning.
They do, however, share significant aspects of the new engineering design implemented in the input boards in the signal-conditioning family that they complement.
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Specifically, they offer high signal density, they enable high channel counts, they include an isolated ground for each channel, and they allow for simultaneous updates across all channels.
MSXB 076 boards slot into a backplane in a standard industrial enclosure like other signal-conditioning products that conform to the external hardware specifications of the Microstar Laboratories channel architecture: signal connectors on 3U (100mm high) Eurocard B (220mm deep) boards - Eurocards - that often preprocess a signal.
A backplane connector on each board connects it to a digital backplane factory-fitted into the industrial enclosure.
An interface board that also plugs into the backplane receives digitised waveforms from a DAP board in a PC.
Every DAP board includes an onboard processor running a real-time operating system that Windows applications that support DLL calls can communicate with - and control.
You can communicate with and control a DAP board from DAPstudio - a Windows application from Microstar Laboratories - as well as from third-party (or your own) software.
DAP boards also communicate among themselves independently of Windows to synchronise their clocks with one another.
They then all work synchronously as a networked data acquisition system.
So, even if your application has hundreds - or maybe thousands - of analogue outputs on MSXB 076 boards distributed over a network, all these output channels update simultaneously, as a single synchronised system.
And none of these channels introduce noise from ground currents.
When each signal should have an isolated ground, when eliminating phase differences matters, when compact packaging helps, and when your application has - or could have - many channels, take a look at the synchronised PC-based data acquisition and control systems produced by Microstar Laboratories.
The MSXB 076 board costs US $695, and is available now.
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