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Among the highlights of this week's DSP 96 show at the Heathrow Ramada Hotel is
the new ADC64, a Digital Signal Processing (DSP)-based, PCI bus data
acquisition card from Innovative Integration (Stand 218) which is supplied
and supported in the UK by Adept Scientific. The first to combine a
high-performance, 32-bit floating point DSP core, a broad array of analogue
and digital I/O, multiple A/D converters and a bus mastering PCI interface, the
ADC64 is a highly affordable platform for intelligent data acquisition system
designs.
A truly innovative feature of the ADC64 is its use of multiple A/D converters.
This avoids the phase errors associated with single A/D converter boards that
often lead to misinterpretation of data. The ADC64 performs conversions on up
to eight channels simultaneously.
Up to 64 16-bit instrumentation-grade analogue input channels are available,
with -120 dB/decade anti-alias filters and programmable gain, capable of
sampling at any rate up to 100K samples/sec. The board also provides two
channels of 16-bit, instrumentation-grade analogue output running at up to
100 kHz per channel. Sixteen bits of high-drive digital I/O are also on-board.
For fast, continuous, gap-free multichannel data acquisition under Windows,
the ADC64 supports DASYLab software. DASYLab (also available from Adept
Scientific in the UK) makes it easy to create anything from simple data logging
and display applications through to complex, high-speed acquisition and
frequency domain analysis, and even mimic diagrams of complete test rigs or
processes.
DASYLab uses iconic function blocks, wired together on screen, to build
customised data acquisition applications without programming. Easy to set up
and use, DASYLab gives complete control of every step, from acquisition of data
right through to the final, printed report.
The ADC64's comprehensive I/O choices, speed and precision makes it suitable
for a wide range of applications including data logging and manipulation,
process control, laboratory testing and audio processing.
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The ADC64's on-board DSP also makes this an ideal development platform. A
Developer's Package is available, which includes the acclaimed Code Composer
integrated development environment supporting C or assembly language
programming with single-stepping, breakpoints, animated run, memory
watching and much more.
The ADC64 and Innovative Integration's complete range of DSP and data
acquisition products are supplied and supported in the UK by Adept Scientific,
as is DASYLab software. A free catalogue of Innovative Integration DSP
products and literature on DASYLab can be ordered through Adept's Literature
Selector; or contact Adept Scientific plc, 6 Business Centre West,
Avenue One, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 2HB; Telephone (01462) 480055;
Fax: (01462) 480213. |
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