Data Acquisition Reference Materials

Description: As manufacturers expand and digitize operations, modernizing legacy Modbus I/O remains a persistent challenge. Designed for isolated systems, traditional Modbus devices lack the security, visibility, ...

Description: The Bus IO coupler is a typical slave tool. It can only be used with the master device, usually a controller such as a PLC. We know that if PLC wants to achieve automatic control, it must first ...

Description: Effective process monitoring is critical to avoiding downtime, ensuring product quality and maintaining production volume. If your environment requires process monitoring, we can provide you with the ...

Description: CAS DataLoggers supplied the temperature monitoring solution for a Washington winery concerned about the complex grape vine weather conditions that affected the quality and yield in their vineyard. To ...

Description: Data surrounds us, driving our decisions and determining a venture's success. Making use of it effectively saves time, money and frustration. This white paper discusses the three categories of data - ...

Description: As we work on our product roadmap, I've been doing some market research, and came across some especially interesting material from IDC - International Data Corporation, which provides market research ...

Description: How modular data management solutions help achieve better asset optimization ...

Description: Basic knowledge and glossary terms related to analog I/O, A/D conversion, and D/A conversion in an easy-to-understand way that includes illustrations. ...

Description: At CAS DataLoggers we occasionally have customers who need to accurately determine the frequency of a given waveform at each of its cycles. For these applications, we offer real-time ADwin-Light Data ...

Description: Temperature measurements are among the most common data logging applications found across a broad variety of industries including cold chains, medical monitoring, and more. In our latest White Paper, ...

Description: Series 3 dataTaker dataloggers are popular for their communications functionality and for their ease of programming using the built-in dEX software. In our latest Technical Article, CAS DataLoggers ...

Description: BTUs are a widely-used metric for energy production and in solar HVAC system financing. BTU data can represent significant savings. In our latest White Paper, CAS DataLoggers outlines the definition, ...

Description: Portable data acquisition systems are convenient solutions used to log data and monitor temperature and other values in industrial and laboratory applications. In this latest CAS DataLoggers White ...

Description: SDI-12 has become the environmental standard of choice for environmental monitoring applications. At CAS DataLoggers we've put together this brief introduction to the SDI-12 standard highlighting the ...

Description: Have you been having problems with your electrical equipment but haven't found the cause? For many users it turns out to be a very common, widespread problem called ground loop feedback. This wiring ...

Description: CompactPCI is a first choice for modernizing legacy test equipment or developing a new system. Its modular hardware design, wide range of COTS I/O options, good instrumentation control, and clear ...

Description: MIL-STD-1553, which has served as the primary command and control interconnect in military aircraft for more than 3 decades, is now being designed-in as the standard for next-generation commercial ...

Description: This article describes the MIL-STD-1553 and ARINC 429 standards and their differences in detail, and introduces a wide range of components, test boards, rugged embedded boards, rugged small form ...

Description: Data logging and recording is a common measurement application. In its most basic form, data logging is the measuring and recording of physical or electrical parameters over a period of time. The data ...

Description: The rapid adoption of the PC in the last 20 years catalyzed a revolution in instrumentation for test, measurement, and automation. One major development resulting from the ubiquity of the PC is the ...

Description: Two new tools that operate in LeCroy scopes - Equalizer Emulation and Virtual Probing - are provided for dealing with difficult test and measurement problems in measurements of equalized systems. ...

Description: This paper is an extension of last years paper entitled "Eye Pattern Measurements in Scopes". Last years paper pointed out the effects of bandwidth, roll-off rate, flatness, and group delay ...

Description: Multi-lane serial data links are susceptible to crosstalk from adjacent lanes as well as external aggressors. The resulting interference increases the jitter and noise on the victim lanes and can ...

Description: USB 3.0 early adopters will begin testing the next-generation peripheral interconnect (known as SuperSpeed USB) later this year. Promising ten times the speed of USB 2.0 and backward compatibility ...

Description: Signal Integrity engineers are typically simulating systems using simulation models and measuring signals in systems using instruments. Often, during the design process, simulated models are replaced ...

Description: Die cast presses use hydraulic systems to force molten metal into a die to form intricately shaped parts that require little final machining for engine components, transmissions and other parts. ...