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Data Matrix Verification FAQ (.pdf)
Description: Manufacturers in nearly every industry, especially those using open source manufacturing, rely on automatic data capture (ADC) to increase productivity, accuracy, and data handling efficiency. ...
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Modules or Hybrids for MIL-SPEC DC-DC Conversion
From: XP PowerDescription: Technology transference between high reliability and high volume markets is bringing benefits to both sectors, in terms of speed of manufacture and unit cost. It's difficult to overstate how ...
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PC-Based Platforms Serve Up High-Speed Data Acquisition Systems
From: Signatec, Inc.Description: Historically, proprietary direct-to-disk waveform recorder systems were the only option available to deliver high-speed signal recording solutions if data loss could not be tolerated. There are clear ...
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Case Study: ERP Reduces Manufacturing Costs by 20% For Industrial Equipment Manufacturer Ace Designers, Ltc.
Description: Since 1987, Ace Designers Limited, India's leading manufacturer of CNC lathes and auto lathes, has been exporting machines all around the world, including Brazil, Germany, United Kingdom and the ...
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Case Study: RV Manufacturer Bigfoot Integrates and Optimizes Data for a More Efficient Operation
Description: Since 1978, Bigfoot Industries Inc. (www.bigfootrv.com) has provided the Recreational Vehicle, Camper and Pull Trailer industry with state-of-the-art RV equipment. Manufacturing approximately 800 ...
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Case Study: Updating Technology Results in Big Payoff for Turnkey Manufacturer, Tripling On-Time Delivery and Quadrupling Revenue in One Year
Description: In 1999, Qualitel Corporation, a Redmond, Washington-based contract electronics manufacturer, earned $2.85 million in revenue. Just one year later, after implementing a new business model and the ...
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Web-Enabled Data Acquisition
Description: Despite advances in automotive development simulation software, there is still a critical need for on-road development. On-road developmental tests evaluate the effects of weather and road conditions ...
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Troubleshooting Guide
Description: This page contains links to the following troubleshooting guides: Sensor-Display System, Unamplified Sensor, Amplified Sensor, and Digital Display. Each troubleshooting guide breaks out common ...
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Why use Industrial Ethernet Switches?
From: N-TronDescription: Industrial Ethernet Switches are designed to operate in plant floor environments. The specifications of Industrial Ethernet switches (temperature, shock, vibration, etc.) meet or exceed the equipment ...
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Case Study: Electric Power Plant
From: N-TronDescription: Uptime is critical for an electric power plant. To most of us a power outage is an inconvenience, but to some it can mean loss of income, revenue, and in some cases loss of life. By their very nature, ...
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Case Study: Nuclear Plant
From: N-TronDescription: There is no place where control and data acquisition are as important as in a Nuclear Power Plant. Traditional Instrumentation and Control systems had many weaknesses, among them: analog systems, ...
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Case Study: Waste Water Management
From: N-TronDescription: Characteristics of Wastewater Treatment Facilities: Require precise control because an error could result in the release of pollutants into the environment. Typically the SCADA (Supervisory Control ...
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Case Study: Waterway Lock and Drawbridge Application
From: N-TronDescription: A 47 year old control system that controls both lock and drawbridge operations on a highly utilized highway and commercial shipping waterway was well overdue for replacement. The old system was ...
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Differences Between Switches and Hubs
From: N-TronDescription: A hub, also known as a repeater, is a simple device that connects Ethernet nodes. Hubs forward data packets they receive from a single workstation to ALL ports. All users connected to a single hub or ...
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Installation and Wiring Guidelines for DC/AC Inverters
Description: DC/AC inverters designed to light Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFL's) are a very specific sub-class of inverters in general. These inverters tend to have very low output currents and very high ...
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Rotary Vs. Solid State Design
From: Visicomm IndustriesDescription: Rotary Vs. Solid State Design: In general, the advantages of rotary design over solid state design are: ...
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Solid State Design Considerations
From: Visicomm IndustriesDescription: Single phase units in this size range are, in contrast to larger 3phase units, relatively simple (4 pc boards) and easy to service in the field given an English speaking technician. Solid state design ...
- Buying A Signal Analyzer
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Instrument-Grade Data Acquisition with Ethernet Brings Precision Measurement and Control to Networks
Description: Amid the turmoil of evolving instrument capabilities, PCs losing expansion slots, and challenges to tried-and-true software and operating systems, users of computerized data acquisition (DAQ) systems ...
- Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing
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SISO to MIMO: Moving Communications from Single-Input Single-Output to Multiple-Input Multiple-Output
Description: Commercial radio technology has reached an inflection point, similar to the transition from analog to digital, when we invented a whole range of digital technology; now we're moving from single ...
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Understanding the Perils of Spectrum Analyzer Power Averaging
Description: Averaging is a common technique for reducing the measurement uncertainty inherent in all measurements. Performing the same measurement a number of times and calculating the average of the measured ...
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How To Decide Between Hybrid And COTS Modules For MIL SPEC DC/DC Conversion
From: XP PowerDescription: Technology transference between high reliability and high volume markets is bringing benefits to both sectors, in terms of speed of manufacture and unit cost. It's difficult to overstate how ...
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Intelligent Data Logging Using ADwinSystems
From: CAS DataLoggersDescription: ADwinreal-time systems are ideal for intelligent data acquisition and control applications. By utilizing the programmability of the ADwinslocal CPU, users can run real-time logging and/or control ...
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Technical Series on Data Acquisition - Analog Front-End
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Most data acquisition systems involve obtaining data from various transducers that produce analog signals. Often, the signals from the transducers are low level and require various kinds of signal ...
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Technical Series on Data Acquisition - Data Quality
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: There are many aspects to data acquisition which range from the sensors ...to the analog signals that represent some measured quantity ...to the sampling and digitization of the signal ...to buffering ...
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Technical Series on Data Acquisition - Data Sampling
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Most data acquisition systems involve the sampling of one or more continuous analog signals. This time-series of discrete samples is typically used to represent the original continuous time-varying ...
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FAQ About Sensor Products
Description: 1. What is the technology used on FUTEK Sensors? Bonded foil strain gages. 2. What is the "FS" or "RO" which are referred to in this catalog or other drawings? "FS" stands for FULL Scale and "RO" ...
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IEEE 1451.4 Standard and Practice
Description: In the practice of sensor measurements making sense of numerical information becomes an important factor in the usability of the sensor itself. Typical sensors output a given voltage or current as a ...
- A Clean Future - Integrated, Innovative Environmental Solutions
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ID Coding System: CIS3
From: Euchner-U.S.A., Inc.Description: The only difference between the versions CIS3 and CIS3A is, that with the Identsystem CIS3A you can realize double writing and reading distance as with the Identsystem CIS3. The case forms of the ...
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ID Coding System: CIS3-IBS with Interbus
From: Euchner-U.S.A., Inc.Description: The EUCHNER inductive Identsystem permits contactless identification of pallets, workpieces, production transport systems and any parts which flow in a dynamic manufacturing environment. The ...
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ID Coding System: CIS3A
From: Euchner-U.S.A., Inc.Description: The only difference between the versions CIS3 and CIS3A is, that with the Identsystem CIS3A you can realize double writing and reading distance as with the Identsystem CIS3. The case forms of the ...
- Data Acquistion Software: Pacific Instrument's PI660
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Remote Data Aquisition Phones Home
Description: Sometimes it's not easy going to where the data are. But what if you could just dial up and get the measurements? The SynetCell Data Logger/RTU system (see Photo 1)-a new product for remote logging, ...
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1-GHz Mobile Digital Data Recorder Exploits Latest Advances
Description: Just 5 years ago, it was unthinkable that a mobile system could perform sustained recording at the 2 Gbyte/s rate needed for a 1-GHz recorder. Virtually all such recorders used limited amounts of ...
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Remote Debugging with Networked Bus Analyzers
Description: Remote debugging of VMEbus systems has in the past been unreliable and difficult. Now, new developments such as the inclusion of a network interface within VME bus analyzer technology have made remote ...
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Data Acquisition Meets GameBoy®
From: Daytronic Corp.
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Data Acquisition for Controls and Instrumentation in 21 CFR Part 11 Applications
From: Endress+Hauser, Inc.
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Chips in the Freezer: RFID Pilot For a Frozen Food Master
From: Printronix, Inc.
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From Bar Codes To Smart Labels
From: Printronix, Inc.Description: Smart labels are shipping labels with embedded RFID tags. They offer promise in helping organizations deploy RFID for compliance with retail industry and DoD mandates. Smart labels allow you to retain ...
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New Generation Supply Chain For Snack Foods: RFID Case Study
From: Printronix, Inc.
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Printronix Smart Start to RFID
From: Printronix, Inc.
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RFID for the Supply Chain: Just the Basics
From: Printronix, Inc.
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Smart Partnering For a High-Tech Titan: RFID Case Study
From: Printronix, Inc.
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Taking The Freeze Out of RFID: RFID Case Study
From: Printronix, Inc.
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Bar Code Labeling and Best Inventory Practices Go Hand in Hand
From: Datamax-O'Neil
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Bar Code Labeling in the Automotive Industry
From: Datamax-O'Neil
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The M Class: Designed to Replace Datamax Legacy Printers
From: Datamax-O'Neil
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ADC Diagnostics
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer wants to characterize an 8 bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC). The ADC samples data at 44.4 Megasamples per second (MS/s) and outputs the 8 lines of digital data in TTL format (1 = 5 ...
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Atmospheric Remote Sensing
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer requires a combination of hardware and software ("data system") to do live update sampling, processing, display, and archival of atmospheric measurements using an airborne Lidar system. ...
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Diagnosis of a DC to Three Phase Power Converter
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer needs to make a special converter that converts DC voltage from a high-efficiency battery to 3 phase AC and they are trying to optimize converter efficiency. ...
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Electron-Beam Steering (Feedback-Loop) for Scanning Lithography
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer uses a scanning-electron-beam lithography instrument. Their current digital pattern-generator is based on a commercial high-performance array processor, which uses dual RISC-processors. ...
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GPS Data Collection for Marine Navigation Research
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Step 1 is to capture one channel analog signal at 40 MS/s or more for less than 10seconds. The signal comes from an antenna and RF down converter module. ...
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High Resolution X-Ray Spectrometry
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer works on digitizing signals from a high-resolution x-ray spectrometer that is based on superconductors, rather than semiconductors. By applying a digital filter, they hope to determine ...
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High-Spatial Resolution Lidar
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: In Lidar, which is Laser Radar, spatial resolution is limited by the laser pulse width. This customer's laser pulse width is 3.5 ns. The total range interrogated by the Lidar system will be on the ...
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Hyper-Remote Laser Sensor
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is at the prototype stage for building a hyper remote sensor which will fly over the ocean and be able to see 100 to 200 feet below the surface. The sensor is being designed in order to ...
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Interfacing to Offset IF Radar Altimeter
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is using an offset IF radar to map forest terrain density. The equipment will be mounted in an aircraft, which will also be carrying a Global Positioning System (GPS) for reference. ...
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Intra-Vascular Ultrasound with a CompuScope 8500
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer does intra-vascular diagnostic ultrasound. In this novel technique, an ultrasonic catheter is guided through a patient's blood vessel. Throughout its helical or corkscrew-like path, the ...
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Kinetics of Protein Dynamics
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is measuring kinetics of protein dynamics with a time scale of between a few nanoseconds and about a hundred milliseconds. The customer's two response signals occur after a ...
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Laser Signals Striking Silicon-Diode Target
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer wants to capture the output of some silicon diodes looking at a laser target. The typical signal is anywhere from 20mv to 1V in amplitude and 0 to 15ns in length. There are up to 16 of ...
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Laser Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer's setup is a scientific application in which transient signals from a Laser Absorption Spectroscope are transferred to a computer. The laser power is modified in steps and the process is ...
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Laser-Induced Fluorescence
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer has developed a breakthrough technique for the application of laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection to high performance liquid chromatography, capillary e lectrophoresis, sequencing ...
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Long Range Sensor Monitoring for Environmental Testing
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: This customer needs to monitor 4 sensors for environmental testing. The experiment is 350KM away from the customer's office, where they will be performing calculations and analyzing the results. The ...
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Measuring the Thickness of Polar Ice
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is an academic researcher in climate change. He wants to record the depth of the permafrost ice sheets in the arctic regions of Canada, Greenland and elsewhere. Thechange in world climate ...
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Modernizing a Passive Sonar Which Has a Beam-Former with Digital Output
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer's requirement is to capture 10 signals, lasting 0.6 milliseconds each. 120 such signals arrive sequentially from a multiplexer within a beam-former. The clock rate is 2 MHz. The ...
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Monitoring Modems for Traffic Lights
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer monitors high-speed 1,200-baud modems that communicate with traffic lights at various intersections. Each phone line carries 4 channels with 1signal each. Manufacturing deficiencies that ...
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Nuclear Decay Experiment
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer wants to measure nuclear decay rates of various radioactive isotopes. With each nuclear decay, the isotope under study simultaneously emits a beta particle, which is a high-speed electron, ...
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Optical Spectroscopy
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer who is completing his doctorate in Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology has identified the need to measure fast optical signals using fast photo-detectors. The signal pulse ...
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Ozone Profiling
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Ozone profiling involves many averaging operations, which makes it very difficult to obtain the results immediately. There can be a delay of many days before a reliable reading is dispatched, which, ...
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Ozone-Profiling Lidar System
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is designing an ozone-profiling lidar system for measuring the concentration of ozone from ground level up to about 4 kilometer (km) altitude. The system operates in the ultraviolet range ...
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Phase Conjugated Bio Medical Signal Decoding
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer has an optical system that is used to probe layers of biological tissue. Optical beams are generated by photo diodes and the combined signals are phase conjugated to form one beam with ...
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Quantum Interferometry
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer is currently building a quantum interferometry experiment that requires photon correlation measurements. The single-photon avalanche diodes they plan on using produce TTL pulses upon ...
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Quantum Optics
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer would like to sample one long pulse at a 20-50ns sampling interval on two simultaneous channels in a Windows environment. They require 50MS of memory per channel. The user would prefer to ...
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Radar Altimeter for NASA
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: In this RADAR application the customer has pulses coming in at 1660 Hz. For every pulse they need to capture 500 samples which, at that rate, will amount to 1.7 Megs of data every second. The ...
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RF Phase Tracking
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer must design a system to implement a typical RFapplication. The requirement is to measure and track the phase differences between two signals received by two separate RF ...
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Sampling and Processing of Radar Waveforms
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer involved in Naval Research needed to sample and process radar waveforms, to be used as reference in their lab. They were looking at implementing a digitizer solution. They needed 8 bit ...
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Signal Averaging Benchmark
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Signal averaging is a technique commonly employed in the measurement of weak but repetitive signals. Successive data records from such a signal with a well-defined trigger source are summed to ...
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Signal Saving in GageScope for Windows
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The purpose of this document is to describe different formats used in GageScope for Windows to store data and give the user some examples of post-acquisition data manipulation. ...
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Storm-Watch / Tornado Radar
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: On average, the United States experiences 100,000thunderstorms each year, causing about 1,000tornadoes. The customer is trying to determine what meteorological conditions enable a large rotating ...
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Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: This customer has a Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry application in which a laser is fired at a rate of 50 Hz, i.e. a pulse repeat frequency (PRF) of 50 Hz and a pulse repeat interval (PRI) of 20 ...
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Time Resolved Spectroscopy of Protein Crystals
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is involved in Time Resolved Spectroscopy of protein crystals. This involves shooting a laser onto the protein crystals and measuring the pulses generated by the crystals (as they are ...
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Trigger Out Modification for CP500-Class Boards
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Many A/D applications including Ultrasonics, Radar, Lidar, Hard Disk testing and CCD capture require maximal synchronicity between a trigger and the sampling clock. Gage now offers the TRIGGER OUT ...
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Ultrasonic Medical Immersion System
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer manufactures ultrasonic water immersion systems. A commercial ultrasonic transducer is positioned in front of a test object. The transducer, excited by driving electronics, emits a burst ...
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Ultrasound Imaging
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The live imaging rate is 30 frames per second (fps). Each image frame depicts a full 360-degree circular section. A frame is 240 echoes, so the pulse repeat frequency (PRF) is 7200 Hz, or one echo ...
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Using TESTPCIW for Deep Memory Captures
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: TESTPCIW is a software utility supplied with Gage's oscilloscope emulation software for PCI bus CompuScopes, GagePCI. TESTPCIW is a very useful application for someone starting their own program ...
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Acoustic Micro-Imaging
From: KineticSystems/GaGe
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Airborne Deep Memory
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Imagine the speed, memory, and precision required to monitor communications signals aboard an aircraft in flight. A military engineering support group searched for a solution capable of continuously ...
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Alpha Particle Counting Using Multiple Record Mode with a CompuScope 8012A
From: KineticSystems/GaGe
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Army Vehicle Simulator
From: KineticSystems/GaGe
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Avionics Bus Monitoring
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The requirement is to monitor anomalies on an avionics bus that controls systems aboard spacecrafts. The customer will know typical rise times, and therefore, will look for anomalous high-voltage ...
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Data Acquisition System for Aircraft Fatigue Testing
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: Summary: This is a VXI-based structural test system for business jet aircraft. The customer required a turnkey data acquisition system complete with application software. We supplied a DAQ Director ...
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Deep PCI Capture of Fast CCD Array Data
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer wants to digitize data from a 256x256 infrared CCD array. The array data is clocked at 4MHz through two output channels. Exactly two clock cycles occur between 12bit line signals, and a ...
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Disk Drive Track Scanning
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: This customer is trying to digitize an 83 millisecond long signal coming out of a disk mounted on a rotary motor. This corresponds to one full revolution of the disk. ...
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Electron Spin Resonance Experiment
From: KineticSystems/GaGe
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Fiber Optic Automated Measurement System
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is in the business of developing lasers and LED components for fiber optic data\telecommunications applications. The requirement is for an automated test system to monitor the pulse ...
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Gas Turbine Monitoring
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: A customer who designs and develops turbo-machinery uses automated data-acquisition and reduction routines. The complete system can sequentially scan up to 144pressures, 40electrical signals, and ...
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Image Acquisition from Three Analog Cameras
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: The customer is using three independent cameras made by Cidtec. These cameras provide an analog output as well as a pixel clock (of up to 10 MHz). It is assumed that FRAME_START and LINE_START signals ...
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Interface for Laser Scanning Microscope
From: KineticSystems/GaGeDescription: This customer needs to interface a scanning laser microscope to their PC so that image data can be acquired and stored. Data is received from the laser microscope via an optical sensor at 1300 line ...
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Laser Excitation of Single Atoms
From: KineticSystems/GaGe
