64-channel, 14-bit I/O Board at low price

The new PCI-DAS64/M1/14 plug-and-play board features digital calibration and offers an combination of high speed, channel count and resolution on a single PCI-bus data acquisition board

Adept Scientific announces the release of the new PCI-DAS64/M1/14 analogue and digital input/output (I/O) board from Measurement Computing (formerly known as ComputerBoards Inc).

The new plug-and-play board features digital calibration and offers an outstanding combination of high speed, channel count and resolution on a single PCI-bus data acquisition board - a highly capable, quality product at a very competitive price.

The PCI-DAS64/M1/14 is a 64-channel, 14-bit 1MHz board at a price that is lower than many competitors' equivalent 12-bit boards.

It builds on the success of the PCI-DAS64/M2/16, providing a solution for those who need a higher sampling rate or resolution than existing 12-bit boards supply, without paying for the premium performance of the PCI-DAS64/M2/16.

Prices for the PCI-DAS64/M1/14 start at just ?1750 ex-VAT.

The new board provides 64 single-ended, or 32 differential inputs (the input mode is software-selectable), as well as 14-bit analogue inputs with a sample rate of 1 MHz, 32 bits of digital I/O and one 16-bit down-counter.

Analogue and digital trigger levels and direction are also software-selectable.

The PCI-DAS64/M1/14 is completely plug-and-play.

There are no switches, jumpers or potentiometers on the board.

All board addresses, interrupt channels etc.

are set by your computer's plug-and-play software.

Calibration is fully digital ensuring accuracy is maintained.

Channel-to-channel skew (the time between consecutive samples) results from multiplexing the analogue inputs.

The PCI-DAS64/M1/14 provides burst mode to minimize this skew by clocking the A/D at a high rate between successive samples within a scan.

The board's burst mode timing (1 uS minimum sample/skew delay) allows users to simulate an SS and H (simultaneous sample and hold) front end.

The PCI-DAS64/M1/14 board's high-speed 14-bit analogue outputs are updated via on-board 16-k first in/first out (FIFO) and provide a 100kHz maximum update rate.

Each board is fully supported by Measurement Computing's powerful Universal Library and a wide variety of software packages including VEE and VEE Lab from Agilent Technology; LabVIEW from National Instruments; DAS-Wizard, which brings data acquisition capability to Microsoft Excel; and SoftWIRE, a graphical programming interface for Microsoft Visual Basic.

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