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From keithley.com
For several years, PCs have been used to automate and increase the efficiency of data acquisition and measurement applications. With the former, PCs house data acquisition boards in their internal data bus slots, where they provide interface and data manipulation functions. In the latter case, PCs can tie together several instruments on an external bus and act as a controller to collect measurement data. Also, in specialized automatic test equipment (ATE), PCs are often embedded on a board and installed in a backplane with the appropriate data bus, instead of being in a separate enclosure. In ATE applications, embedded PCs perform data acquisition, test and measurement functions similar to their desktop and laptop brethren. Products & Services
Digital signal processor (DSP) computer boards are central to the implementation of high-performance industrial systems. They collect and process digital data from many sources, and distribute the results to other elements of the system.
CompactPCI controllers and CompactPCI processors are rugged, high-speed computer boards and single board computers that control data transfers between devices in CompactPCI and PXI networks. These devices also control the status of interrupts, interrupt requests (IRQs), registers, and triggers as well as network instruments for testing and analysis.
Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems are large-scale, industrial control and measurement systems that consist of a central host, one or more remote units, a communications network, and specialized software.
Industrial chassis and card cages are metal frames that support and contain electronic components and power supplies. They generally have a backplane with slots to install other peripherals and accessories.
Industrial backplanes are circuit boards that contain sockets or expansion slots for connections to other circuit boards. There two types of industrial backplanes: active and passive.
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