PC-Based Measurement Solutions
Ultra-Accurate... By Design
Ultra-Accurate... By Design
A series of Application Notes are available to show how Data Translation products are being used throughout the world.
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Advances in Ultra-Accurate Temperature Measurement Design Temperature is the world's most widely measured property. Most temperature measurement instruments deployed today rely on technology architectures developed when silicon-based devices were far more costly and DOS ran computers. New approaches to analog design have changed this paradigm. This paper describes how the latest techniques in analog technology can be applied to the development of ultra-accurate temperature measurement instruments. |
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AMS2750D Temperature Uniformity Surveys using TEMPpoint Industrial process furnaces and ovens require uniform temperature and heating; This is critical to repeatable product performance from batch to batch. These furnaces require periodic inspection for temperature uniformity. Using TEMPpoint to monitor temperatures over time according to AMS2750D specifications fits this application perfectly. |
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Avoid Pitfalls in Precision Temperature Measurement Exact temperature measurement in many scientific, industrial, and commercial applications has driven the hunt for ultra accurate temperature measurement equipment capable of reading changes of a fraction of a degree Celsius. In addition, temperature measurement and control solutions must be easy to implement and use by both novice users and experienced engineers. New equipment and standards such as LXI have made a challenging task possible. |
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Channel to Channel Accuracy When you need to measure temperature from multiple channels with precision, you want high accuracy and minimal variation from one channel to another. |
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Customizing TEMPpoint Application with Company Logo This application note describes how one company turned the TEMPpoint ready-to-measure application into their own custom chart recorder used for measuring furnace temperatures for uniformity surveys. |
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Data Acquisition Helps Veterinarians Assess Animal Gait Problems To assess the effects of leg or hip injuries in horses and dogs and develop treatment, it is helpful to veterinarians to evaluate the gait patterns of the animals. Sharon Software, Inc. has developed software for a PC-based data acquisition system that is currently used for research and clinical service at sites throughout the United States and Canada. |
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Engine Monitoring and Testing with the DT9836 Engines are the driving force behind many forms of transportation and/or agricultural machinery. They are designed to run at high speeds and at high temperatures. They are stringently tested to perform under the harshest of conditions in order to satisfy very high quality standards. This testing process using data acquisition needs to be accurate, precise, repeatable, and most of all correct. |
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Gas Analyzer Simulation Using Measure Foundry A worldwide producer of gas analyzer systems, wanted to test their analyzers without having to introduce real gas into the system. This would save time, money, and create a safer work environment. |
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Ground Penetrating Radar for Road Maintenance Using the DT9832 A road maintenance/ground penetration analysis company provides analysis and data recording of newly laid asphalt roads. The company presently does this with the use of about a half a dozen specially equipped RV's. They were looking to use a lower cost solution than the present data acquisition device which tends to be expensive and slow. The company was looking for a high speed, portable data acquisition device which had the ability to keep up with the vehicle when driving at speeds up to 60mph while performing the radar pass over the newly laid asphalt. |
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Lightning Mapping System Bolsters Air Travel Safety Researchers at the Langmuir Laboratory for Atmospheric Research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology have been getting a real charge out of their work. They have developed a system for mapping lightning that measures radiation to produce a three-dimensional map of lightning activity and it has been enhanced with Data Translation's DT301 PCI data acquisition board. |
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LXI system setup is quick and easy: a complete example LXI-compliant instruments demonstrate predictable operation and behavior that make them easy to set up, configure, and debug. Find out just how easy it is. |
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Measuring Vibration Using the DT9837 and MATLAB Vibration measurements are critical in predictive maintenance and diagnostic fault testing applications for quality assurance. Typical vibration applications use IEPE (ICPTM) accelerometers to measure vibration and when coupled with MATLAB®, a well known interactive software environment for data acquisition and analysis, report generation, and test system development, provide a complete set of tools for acquiring and analyzing vibration measurements. |
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Mirrorcle Technologies Using the DT9812-10V for MEMS Product Mirrorcle Technologies, Inc. provides a variety of optical microelectromechanical system (MEMS) products and services, including single and dual axis mircomirror scanners and low-inertia reflectors that use data acquisition. The system is capable of displaying a variety of vector graphics as well as multi-frame animations at arbitrary refresh rates. |
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Power Station Transformer Monitoring with the DT9832 Transformers are an electrical device that transfers energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling with no moving parts. These high voltages comes the need to monitor the transformers with a data acquisition system and insure they are running at an optimum and that no catastrophic events (explosions) can happen. |
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Rotating Speed Measurements with the DT9836 Quadrature encoders are used in a wide range of applications relating to rotating objects. They are used for positioning purposes and also to measure the rotating speed of an object. For many data acquisition applications, not only the position and the rotating speed of a device is of interest but physical and electrical data has to be acquired along with the rotating object. |
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Shock Testing Using the DT9836 Module and Measure Foundry Quanta Laboratories needed a data acquisition system with the ability to measure 24 inputs, each with up to 2000 g of resistance, simultaneously. In addition, they wanted to be able to trigger the start of acquisition using a single-axis accelerometer. |
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Synchronized, Triggered Automotive Data Gathering Using Measure Foundry and DT9836 Hardware Imagine that you need to capture multiple channels of high-speed, high resolution, simultaneous data in real time with absolutely no missed samples. A large automotive component manufacturer that supplies equipment to major car manufacturers faced this challenge and needed an appropriate data acquisition system. |
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Temperature Uniformity Monitoring: Biotech A leading biotechnology company needed to evaluate freeze-dryers from a number of suppliers to select the best performing product for use in their processes to develop/monitor biological therapies. Temperature uniformity was considered the key indicator of product performance. |
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Temperature Uniformity Monitoring: Composite Curing Oven A leading supplier of advanced composite materials was developing a new composite material and needed to get two, large curing ovens up and running to get their product to market quickly. Temperature uniformity was considered the key measurement requirement when evaluating the curing process. |
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Testing Lithium-Ion Batteries using TEMPpoint Advances in battery technology have revolutionized the consumer market – powering products such as cell phones and laptops to hybrid cars. Lithium-ion batteries are the predominant power source for these devices because of their ability to store a great deal of energy in a compact, light package. Find out how a major manufacturer overcame testing difficulties using TEMPpoint for temperature data acquisition. |
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Why ISO-Channel Technology is Your Best Return on Investment. When connecting signal sources it is important to eliminate the sources of error that can contribute to inaccuracies in your measurements. In most measurement instruments, this burden is on the customer. Instruments that use ISO-Channel technology solve this problem for you – saving you tremendous setup and debug time and reducing costly grounding problems when connecting signals. |