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IBM MicroChannel Bus
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The IBM MicroChannel Bus was designed as a replacement for the ISA bus in 1987. It is much faster, and is capable of Plug & Play (adding a card to a MicroChannel computer does not change the interrupt and DMA settings on the card). These functions are done via software. IBM Microchannel slots are available almost exclusively in IBM's PS/2® line. Viewed as proprietary technology, the IBM MicroChannel Bus did not have much success outside of IBM products. Most of the major players in the industry instead banded together to create Extended ISA or EISA to replace ISA. Products & Services
Analog-to-digital converters (ADC) sample an analog signal and convert it to a series of digital values to represent the signal to a computer processor.
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Data acquisition I/O modules or cards have both input and output functionality. Digital or discrete I/O modules include on-off signals used in communication, user interface, or control.
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Carrier cards and carrier boards are slotted so that other modules can be plugged into them. Carrier boards may be "slaves" (non-intelligent) or "intelligent."
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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.
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Bus extenders are used to increase cable lengths for distance-limited bus protocols.
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ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) is a disk drive implementation that integrates the controller on the disk drive itself. It is an interface standard that extends the ISA bus of the IBM PC-AT to...
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