Measurement Computing Corporation (formerly ComputerBoards) has announced the arrival of a new PC Card range for data acquisition, and they are now available in the UK from Adept Scientific.
Measurement Computing Corporation (formerly ComputerBoards) has announced the arrival of the new PC Card range for data acquisition, and they are now available in the UK from Adept Scientific.
The PC-CARD-DAS16/16 and PC-CARD-DAS16/16-AO have been significantly improved to support working on portable applications, at a faster pace and with more robust data collection.
In response to user feedback, the new cards have more robust connections, with the addition of a new rugged 50-pin high density connector, enabling the cards to be used more reliably on a notebook PC.
The other features of this new higher performance card also support significantly improved data acquisition.
Sample rates are faster - single channels may be sampled as high as 200 k samples per sec, from the PC-CARD DAS16/16 (the PC-CARD-DAS16/330 is capable of 330k samples/sec), while multi channel scans are capable of 100 kHz.
Sample timing is set by an on-board crystal controlled pacer, an external pacer/trigger input (level or edge triggered), or by software polling.
For high speed data transfers, the software driver automatically uses REP-INSW with a 4k FIFO buffer providing buffering between the A/D circuit and the PCMCIA bus.
This larger buffer improves the reliability of high speed Windows data acquisition, ensuring no samples are lost.
The PC-CARD-DAS16/16 provides eight digital I/O lines (eight in or out, or four in, four out) and allows the user to sense and control a wide variety of discreet events.
The PC-CARD-DAS16/16-AO version includes dual digital-to-analog converters and provides two accurate, highly stable analog outputs in two programmable ranges for control applications.
The new cards are completely plug and play - all board addresses, interrupt channels etc.
are set by your computers plug and play software so there are no switches, jumpers or potentiometers to set, making it much easier to start your data acquisition.
These PC cards are fully supported by a wide variety of applications software packages including SoftWIRE, DAS-Wizard, DASYLab, Agilent VEE Pro, Agilent VEE One Lab and LabVIEW, so will fit in easily with your existing software.
Also supported is Universal library for most common programming languages - C, VB and Delphi.
