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USB Data Acquisition Processor for High-Speed Simultaneous Sampling

A new semi-autonomous data acquisition system can—after programming—run independently from its host PC. PC software communicates with, configures and controls the system, but xDAP 7400Read More...

ExpressCard High-Speed Digitizer Captures Data in Two Modes

A wideband signal acquisition card for commercial laptop computers combines a compact, low-power form-factor with a 150 MHz sampling rate on two channels, supporting 14-bit resolutionRead More...

Low Power Wireless Data Acquisition Brings Flexibility and Low Maintenance

  Installing sensors for data acquisition has traditionally been a labor-intensive process, involving analog or network wiring from sensor locations to aggregation points. The highRead More...

From Energy Visibility to Energy Savings in Commercial and Industrial Buildings

Most of the claims made about the value of energy visibility in realizing energy reductions are based on studies of consumer behavior in residential buildings. Are these claims equallyRead More...

Atom-Based Series of Fanless, Cable-Free Rugged I/O Platforms

A series of rugged and fanless I/O platforms based on the Intel Atom N270 are targeted for providing rugged I/O solutions to the market. The Matrix MXE-1000 and MXC-2000 from AdlinkRead More...

High-Resolution Digitizer Line Provides High Accuracy, Low Noise, High Performance

Three new PCI digitizers offer sampling rates of 10 MSample/s, 20 MSample/s and 40 MSample/s respectively. The newest members of the PCI-98x6 series from Adlink 98x6 family ofRead More...

PCI Express XMC Module with Dual Channel 1 GS/s 12-bit Digitizer

An XMC I/O module features dual channels of 1 GSample/s 12-bit digitizing with a Virtex5 FPGA computing core, DRAM and SRAM memory, and eight lane PCI Express host interface. TheRead More...

PCI-Express Digitizer Capable of Sustained Recordings Over 1.2 GByte/s

PCI Express Digitizer Capable of Sustained Recordings over 1.2 Gbytes/s A new high-speed digitizer in the form of an advanced wideband and high dynamic range A/D board captures signalRead More...

Happy Holidays from SF3

‘Twas the night before shipping, the deadline was near Not a creature was stirring but one engineer His systems were staged in burn-in with care In hopes that a serial consoleRead More...

“Tree Power”—Bio-Energy for Forest Service’s Climate Sensor Network

Voltree Power has announced its first contract with the USDA Forest Service, following a rigorous and successful test in June of its Climate Sensor Network. The Climate Sensor NetworkRead More...

PCI Express 48-Channel Digital I/O Card with Change of State Detection

PCI Express 48-Channel Digital I/O Card with Change of State Detection A 48-channel PCI Express (PCIe) card has been designed for use in a variety of digital I/O applications.Read More...

PCI-Express Digitizer Capable of Sustained Recordings Over 1.2 GByte/s

4-Channel Serial FPDP Streaming RecorderSupports 960MB/s Data Stream

4-Channel Serial FPDP Streaming Recorder Supports 960 Mbyte/s Data Stream  Curtiss-Wright Controls Electronic Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployedRead More...

Compact, Ruggedized, Fanless System Expands Flexibly

  Compact, Ruggedized, Fanless System Expands Flexibly A series of compact, rugged, reliable, low-power systems aimed at high-reliability data acquisition and controlRead More...

Programmable Automation Controllers Bring Together the Best of PLCs and PCs

Implementing a modern industrial application can present a challenging and sometimes daunting mix of requirements. For example, it is well understood that a typical control system mustRead More...

Embedded Digital Filtering on Programmable Mixed-Signal Devices

The increasing availability of affordable microcontrollers with analog-to-digital front ends continues to change how embedded systems are being designed. Often termed “mixed-signalRead More...

Multi-Channel, Configurable PCI-Express Digitizer with Two Virtex-5 FPGAs

An advanced PCIe-based wideband A/D board captures four synchronized channels at sampling rates up to 1.5 GHz, or two synchronized channels up to 3 GHz when interleaving the ADCRead More...

Fibre Channel XMC Interface for Embedded Hits 8 Gbit/s

Fibre Channel XMC Interface for Embedded Hits 8 Gbit/s An 8 Gbit/s Fibre Channel XMC interface product allows embedded system applications to leverage ultra-high-speed FibreRead More...

USB Data Acquisition Module with ISO-Channel Technology for Harsh Conditions

High-Density 16-bit D/A PMC Module with Software-Selectable Output Ranges

A standard single-wide 32-bit PMC module provides 32 or 16 channels of 16-bit analog outputs. The TPMC554 is ideal for applications in industrial, transportation and COTSRead More...

Data Loggers for FlexRay and CAN

A new data logger for automotive communication systems is available as a Basic or Plus version. The CARcorder from IXXAT Basic version provides fully six CAN interfaces (ISO 11898-2Read More...

Providing Data in Real Time: Machine to Machine Systems Smooth Transportation

In machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, a field-deployed wireless device gathers data and sends it to a back-end server through a wireless network. M2M is particularly useful inRead More...

Monitoring the Railway with Technology and Keeping Both Running

In the railroad industry, management by prevention is imperative. Faulty track and equipment causes half of all train derailments. The resulting cost to the global rail industry inRead More...

Rugged 3U OpenVPX Data Recorder with Eight 6 Gbit/s Links

Rugged 3U OpenVPX Data Recorder with Eight 6 Gbit/s Links A small form factor data recorder board enables system designers to quickly and easily integrate high-volume, continuousRead More...

High-Speed Digitizers Recapture Innovation as ADCs Yield to FPGAs

Prior to the new millennium, skilled hardware engineers pushed the technology envelope with inventive wideband digitizer designs leveraging an assortment of discrete logic integratedRead More...

Two or Six Channel 12-bit ADC with Up To 3.2 GSPS per Channel

A new 12-bit ADC supports either two 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) channels at 3.2 GSPS (Gigasamples per second) or six channels at 1.6 GSPS. The Calypso-V5 from Tekmicro isRead More...

CompactPCI and PXI Enable Advanced Measurement and Control in Embedded Applications

CompactPCI and PXI have become increasingly popular standards in the industrial and test and measurement spaces. Because of the significant adoption of these standards, a wide varietyRead More...

Quad-Channel Data Acquisition and Processing Board Hits 200 MSPS at 16 bits

A four-channel data acquisition module targets radar and communications applications requiring next-generation performance. The 71600 from Pentek has four 200 MSPS, 16-bit dataRead More...

DDS Component Links Incompatible Network System Interfaces to Build Multisystem Applications

By now, the world is familiar with machine-to-machine (M2M) systems in which autonomous or semi-autonomous nodes communicate and share data over a dedicated network to operate as anRead More...

Simultaneous USB DAQ Module with Throughput to 800kHz

A high-speed, high-performance simultaneous USB data acquisition module is a completely isolated high-speed USB module providing simultaneous analog inputs at up to 800 KHz perRead More...