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News Release from: Amplicon | Subject: DAQ2000 range
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 06 November 2002
Acquisition boards aid PXI migration
New additions to the DAQ2000 range of data acquisition boards include PXI versions, with complimentary chassis and controllers for test and measurement, industrial control and data acquisition.
New additions to the DAQ2000 range of data acquisition boards include PXI versions, with complimentary chassis and controllers for test and measurement, industrial control and data acquisition applications As PXI is becoming ever more popular, emerging as the multivendor open industrial specification for such applications, Amplicon can offer high performance products at an affordable price
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 22 Feb 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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The chassis includes support for 32 and 64bit CompactPCI cards with one system controller and a filtered, forced air cooling system.
In addition, a PXI trigger bus is available to all slots.
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Triggers may also be passed from one module to another to achieve deterministic responses to asynchronous external events.
Two additional buses, the PXI local bus and star trigger bus are also available, as well as a 10MHz system reference clock.
Amplicon also offers the cPCI-3700A/CC controller for PXI.
The CompactPCI controllers are compatible with PXI as the additional signal lines do not interact with the controller and PXI is backwardly compatible with CompactPCI boards.
The controller is a CompactPCI Pentium III CPU Module with VGA/LCD/Ethernet.
With its standard 3U form factor, it supports up to FC-PGA Pentium III CPU at 850MHz.
A 144 pin SO-DIMM socket supports up to 256Mbyte RAM.
The controller features an inbuilt 2.5in low profile HDD with a separable slim-type floppy drive module.
The data acquisition board family consists of three ranges: simultaneous sampling, high performance multifunction and high performance analogue output boards, each with two or three daughterboard variants.
End users can retain the same application software program, without code modification, when migrating from standard PCI architecture to PXI /CompactPCI architecture.
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