| Generally data acquisition means to acquire data. | | | | board in the master-slave configuration through an |
| However, in computer terminology, data | | | | interconnect port. It has six selectable signals |
| acquisition is defined as the process of uniting real | | | | ranging from 200 million volts to a maximum of |
| world data to produce the data to be | | | | 3.2 volts. |
| maneuvered by the computer system. The data | | | | OME-PCI-1002 series: This data acquisition board is |
| is in the form of waveforms or signals. These | | | | made by Omega. It features 12 bits 110 KHz |
| signals are obtained using different instruments | | | | analog to digital converter PCI board. The PCI |
| and devices. The data acquired can be stored on | | | | board provides 32 single ended or 16 differential |
| the computer using vendor supplied software and | | | | inputs along with 16 digital input and 16 digital |
| the control can be made with the use of | | | | output channels. This PCI board series provide |
| programming languages like Basic, Pascal, | | | | sampling rate of 110 KS/s. However, it may vary |
| FORTRAN, C etc. | | | | within the series depending on whether the |
| Data acquisition systems, as the name suggests | | | | channels are single or multiple. Unlike many other |
| are products or systems used to gather data or | | | | company boards, the omega OME-PCI-1002 |
| information from certain source. The data | | | | comes with software development kit compatible |
| acquisition systems are distinguished on following | | | | with Windows 98/NT/2000/XP. This software |
| basis: serial communication, USB, parallel ports and | | | | development kit includes DLL files for high level |
| plug-in boards. | | | | programming languages and OCX files for Active |
| Without going much in depth, below are the details | | | | X programming.iOTech DaqBoard-3000 series: This |
| of different data acquisition boards. | | | | is a multifunction data acquisition board embedded |
| Signatec PDA1000: This is the data acquisition | | | | with four 1 MHz PCI boards. Unlike OME-PCI-1002 |
| product made by Signatec. The PDA100 is a | | | | board, this board has 16 single-ended or 8 |
| 64-bit data acquisition board compatible with PCI | | | | differential analog inputs with the option to expand |
| device equipments. The "Plug and Play" feature is | | | | them up to 64 single-ended or 32 differential |
| standard in all PCI devices. The analog bandwidth | | | | analog inputs. DaqBoard-3000 series has 24 |
| of DC to 500 MHz and digitization rate of up to 1 | | | | high-speed digital I/O lines. There are four 32 bit |
| MHz makes it remarkably unique in its class. The | | | | counter input channels with quadrature encoder |
| bus that it uses is a Signatec Auxiliary Bus (SAB). | | | | capability. It supports multiple DMA channels and |
| This bus can allow data of 500 MB to be | | | | USB version of this board is also available in |
| transferred per second. Multiple PDA1000 boards | | | | market. |
| can be connected to the same PDA1000 DAQ | | | | |