Amplicon Liveline is now able to offer a complete family of PCI bus data acquisition boards, backwards compatible with popular ISA bus versions from entry level through to higher performance designs
Amplicon Liveline, the specialist distributor providing solutions for IT and Instrumentation for Industry, is now able to offer a complete, comprehensive, family of PCI bus data acquisition boards.
The family of boards is made up of those featuring analogue input, digital Input/Output, reed relay, counter timers, analogue output and multifunction boards which have analogue input, output and DIO combined on one board.
All products in the family are backwards compatible with popular ISA bus versions and range from low cost entry level through to higher performance boards, covering all characteristics of PC based data acquisition.
All boards feature the new PCI-ISA (PLX90520) interface chip to reduce cost, and utilise a PCI Bus version 2.1 plug and play interface.
Device driver software compatible with Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 is provided with the boards in addition to Agilent VEE, Delphi and Visual Basic example software, where Amplicon is the UK channel partner for Agilent Technologies VEE software.
With such a range of boards on offer, almost any application where a PC is required to collect data, output data or simply provide on/off control can be provided for. This makes the boards ideal for end users covering a broad variety of areas, from higher education through manufacturing and transport systems.
Designing and selling its own PCI based data acquisition boards gives Amplicon the advantage of having in house expertise in order to select the best complementary products on offer from other suppliers of data acquisition boards.
Offering a complete system and also driver development also allows the company to help facilitate system integration and upgrades for its customers.
All products are CE marked for EMC, and pre and post sales technical support is also available.
The range of boards on offer signifies a price available for every budget, particularly for those applications where perhaps quality product at a lower cost than the more well known brands is a requirement when building a system.
The complete family of devices is all part of the 200 series of Data Acquisition and Serial Communication boards offered by Amplicon.
The family includes the PCI230 low cost PCI multifunction board PCI260 low cost PCI analogue input board PCI224/234 high performance analogue output PCI boards with 12/16 bit resolution respectively PCI236 digital input/output 24 channel PCI board PCI215 counter timer board with 48 channels Digital I/O for PCI bus PCI272 digital I/O board with 72 channels for PCI bus, and the PCI263 reed relay output board for PCI bus.
