Test & Measurement: Low-Cost Data-Acquistion Board Doesn't Skimp On Performance

Nov. 24, 2003

Saving cost is a key benefit of the PCI-DAS6052 16-bit analog input (16 single-ended and eight differential channels) data-acquisition board, which costs $1295. Any input channel samples up to 333,000 samples/s. The board offers dual 16-bit analog outputs with a 333-kHz/channel maximum update rate. Included are eight bidirectional digital I/O lines and two 16-bit counter/timers. LabView, SoftWIRE, Agilent VEE, and Matlab environments fully support it. Users may program the board in Visual Basic, C#, C++, or any other popular language. They also may use the company's Universal Library for programming. The DAS6052 is available from stock.

Measurement Computing Corp.www.measurementcomputing.com; (508) 946-5100

About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.