Product category:
Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: Measurement Computing | Subject: TracerDAQ Pro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 May 2007
Acquisition software has professional
appeal
Enhanced data acquisition software caters for professional applications - but with no programming required.
Measurement Computing Corp has produced an enhanced version of its TracerDAQ product for data acquisition professionals TracerDAQ was introduced in January 2004 as a strip chart recorder and data logger software application to ship with Measurement Computing's USB products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The features offered in TracerDAQ's first release matched well with our initial USB-based product offerings", explained Jim Ficaro, Measurement Computing's Director of Marketing.
"Since then, we've expanded our product portfolio - and with it, the number of applications in which our products are used".
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"In turn, we've expanded TracerDAQ's capabilities to better meet the diverse test and measurement needs of our customers".
"With TracerDAQ Pro, we offer the enhanced functionality and throughput our users desire, while at the same time delivering the out-of-the-box, nonprogramming solution our customers expect from us".
The new professional version is a full-featured data acquisition software suite, built specifically for users of Measurement Computing's PCI- and USB-based hardware.
TracerDAQ Pro provides four virtual instrument applications used to graphically display and store input data, and generate output signals, within minutes of installing Measurement Computing data acquisition hardware.
The applications allow the user to customise appearance, store configurations for future use, save data to a file for export, and - with the use of interactive hotspots - change settings while the application is running.
TracerDAQ Pro applications include a strip chart for logging and graphing data from analogue, digital, counter and temperature inputs from one or more Measurement Computing DAQ devices.
Features include: sampling at the maximum speed of the DAQ board (up to 1 million samples per channel), triggering, the ability to set alarm conditions, add comments (annotations) to the display plot, play back an acquisition, and import and plot binary and text data.
An oscilloscope application displays values acquired from analogue inputs.
Features include: sampling at the maximum speed of the DAQ board, triggering, the ability to add a reference or a maths channel, display specific measurement values for each channel and scale channel data.
A function generator application generates user selectable sine, square, triangle, constant, saw tooth or custom waveforms for analogue outputs at the maximum rate of the Measurement Computing device.
The function generator displays the sample waveform, samples per cycle, internal scan rate, and base frequency of the selected analogue channel output signal.
It can perform linear and logarithmic sweeps, change the phase, duty cycle, rate multiplier and gate ratio of the waveform.
A rate generator application for use with Measurement Computing's counter devices allows users to output clock signals with variable frequency, duty cycle, and initial state of the waveform.
TracerDAQ Pro sells for US $199, but is available at a special introductory price of $169 if purchased before 15th June 2007.
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