Network-Ready Data Acquisition Development Software Preloaded

By DE Editors

This packaged, network-ready data acquisition system protects your application from local and network-related delays, and lets you start development right away.

Microstar Laboratories (Bellevue, WA)  announced new DAPserver 500 test, measurement, and control products. DAPserver 500 products combine a 5-slot PCI backplane and a 10-slot Eurocard cage in an industrial-grade chassis. A Pentium M processor runs server software on a board that occupies one of the PCI slots. This software, and the software running on DAP boards themselves, protects your application from local or network-related delays.

There is space in the DAPserver enclosure for up to four DAP boards and up to ten signal-interfacing boards. You can start development right away by connecting a laptop and using the preloaded software or add a monitor and connect a keyboard and mouse to the front-panel USB ports.

DAPserver products conform to the signal-interfacing channel architecture used by Microstar Laboratories: signal connectors on 3U (100mm high) Eurocard B (220mm deep) expansion boards that typically pre-process a signal. A DAPserver can contain up to ten of these boards, and it can connect to many more in other rack-mounted industrial enclosures. Most Microstar Laboratories expansion boards multiplex inputs or outputs to or from DAP boards. Many perform additional functions. And every new board now made is intelligent - it communicates with, and can be configured by, the onboard intelligence of the DAP connected to it. These new boards perform any signal conversion required and connect to a digital backplane preinstalled in the 10-slot Eurocard cage in a DAPserver.

The system provides real-time response free from local or network-related delays. DAPserver 500 models cost from $5195 and are available now.

For further details, download a full version of DAPstudio development software at no charge for an unlimited trial from Microstar Laboratories, Inc., which also provides hardware at no charge for evaluation.

For recent DE coverage, see “MSXB 085 Provides Onboard 16-Bit Data Conversion,” (Aug 2008).

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.