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Data Acquisition Hardware and PC I/O Boards
News Release from: Amplicon | Subject: DAQ2000 series
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2002
Smart data-acquisition family separates
A from D
Amplicon has a new family of data acquisition boards, providing a smart, space saving solution.
Amplicon has a new family of data acquisition boards, providing a smart, space saving solution Designed in modular format the digital and analogue circuitry is separated onto daughter and carrier boards - in piggyback configuration - minimising noise and reducing size
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The DAQ2000 series offers the capability, with the intelligent timing control logic, for the simultaneous, full speed operation of the analogue I/O functions.
A custom design instrumentation amplifier is also integrated, which allows a signal to settle at higher speeds than commercial amplifiers, before entering the A/D convertors.
The DAQ2200 range has the ability to scan up to 64 channels of data and sample the channels in any order at the maximum conversion rate.
Each channel may be configured with a different gain, unipolar or bipolar, single ended or differential and the resulting information is stored in the channel gain queue.
This facility allows signals of all types to be measured in one system.
The high performance analogue output DAQ2500 range offers both four and eight channels of analogue output as a differentiating factor, in addition to the features mentioned below which are shared by the entire family.
Multiple card synchronisation provides a high-speed signal bus for trigger and clock transmissions and allows multiple cards to be integrated into a system providing card to card synchronisation.
Other features include: analogue and digital triggering, with acquisition of the data either before or after the trigger event occurs; and automatic calibration - which calibrates the analogue I/O channels and stores values in the EEPROM.
Self-calibration is also featured, and both types may be achieved automatically by software command.
Additionally, scatter-gather bus mastering allows the DMA controller to transfer data to and from the memory up to the limited size.
This is a cost effective way of giving the end users high speed, and a large amount of data in the system memory.
The DAQ2000 series may be used for a wide range of applications including telecommunications; power and harmonics analysis; transient capture and noise analysis and with the 64 channel model, to control machinery and generate waveforms.
(This was Engineeringtalk's Top Story on 3 June 2002).
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