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USB To Retain Its Hold
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is expected to not only retain its hold as a communications medium of choice, but completely penetrate the PC market over the next few years. (Test & Measurement World)
Another Look at PID Controllers
ChipCenter EE Expert Peter Raeth takes another look at adaptive proportional/integral/derivative (PID) controllers. 'A significant issue is implementing them so that they're fast enough to make a difference,' says Raeth. (ChipCenter: EE Expert)
Budget Modules Gather Data
Here's a round-up of simple data-acquisition applications based on low-cost plug-in modules and handheld dataloggers. (Test & Measurement World)

News

Co-Op To Spur Process Control Software
Siemens says it will soon be integrating its soft-sensor technology and a PID tuner into Simatic's IT Framework and the Simatic PCS 7 process control system. The cooperation bnetween the two firms is expected to integrate automation in everything from process control at the factory level to plant and corporate management. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Standard Might Link Factory Software, Sensors
National Instruments president James Truchard asks the manufacturing community to settle on a 'politically acceptable' standard for the integration of software and sensors in manufacturing plants. (EE Times)
Datalogging, Data-Acq Gets New Blood
A company called Grant Instruments acquires a controlling interest in Datataker. The benefit to users will be a widened product range for data-logging and data acquisition equipment. (Test & Measurement World)
TI Offers Data Conversion Seminars
Texas Instruments publishes a schedule for the company�s 2002 Data Converter Seminar series. One-day sessions will consist of technical presentations covering data converter fundamentals, design techniques, and TI product applications. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
New Catalog Highlights Industry-Wide Innovations
United Electronic Industries publishes its 2002 full-line catalog. At 100 pages, it�s the largest edition UEI has ever put out, encompassing all areas of data-acquisition hardware, signal conditioning, and support software. (ChipCenter: WebScan)

Products

- New - PCIbus Plug-In Runs 16 Independent Analog I/O Channels
ChipCenter's Senior Tech Editor Alex Mendelsohn reviews an analog PCIbus I/O card that runs a 150-MHz 32-bit floating-point DSP that controls 16 simultaneous channels of independent A/D and D/A conversion. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
- New - Bluetooth Adapter Sidesteps RS-232 Wiring
Tired of tangles of RS-232 cabling? A Bluetooth-based serial port adapter permits cabled RS-232 applications to go RF wireless without any changes to a system or software. Use it for factory floor automation, data acquisition, material handling, inventory management, access control, security systems, building automation, and patient care automation. (e-inSITE)
- New - PDA Software Upgrades Palm-Pilot-Based Data Acquisition
ChipCenter Senior Technical Editor Alex Mendelsohn reviews a Palm Pilot-based data acquisition system. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
- New - 500-MHz PCI Digitizers Average Waveforms in Realtime
Acqiris's Gsample/s digitizer boards use SiGe chips to average as many as 65,536 records, while keeping pace with the system's A/D. (EDN)
- New - Noise-Immune Thermocouple Boards
ChipCenter Senior Technical Editor Alex Mendelsohn reviews new thermocouple cards from IOtech. These plug-ins use exceptionally low-noise amplifiers, with one amplifier per channel. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)
Analog-I/O PCIbus DSP Card Supports Servo Control, Data-Acq
A new analog-I/O DSP card is designed for servo control and data acquisition applications. Its 150-MHz 32-bit, floating-point DSP controls 16 simultaneous channels of independent A/D and D/A conversion, with up to 264 Mbytes/second data bursts. (NASA Tech Briefs)
National Instruments Introduces Its Fastest 16-Bit Analog Output Modules for PCI
National Instruments extends its high-speed data acquisition product line with the intro of its fastest 16-bit analog output modules. The modules let you control waveform amplitudes with higher resolution, at frequencies commonly associated with lower resolution products. NI includes drivers, and a programming interface for numerous programming environments and languages, including NI LabView and LabWindows/CVI, and VisualBASIC and Visual C++. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Monitor Chip Speaks Softly
Here's news of a hardware monitoring IC with speech. The IC complies with the Alert Standard Format (ASF), an industry spec that defines alerting and remote control interfaces to let networked devices be managed when an operating system is absent. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
Win CE Software Controls, Visualizes PLC Tasks
Simatic WinAC MP software is the first 'soft' programmable logic controller to perform control and visualization tasks on a Windows CE platform. (ChipCenter: WebScan)
FireWire-Based Data-Acq System Mates With Notebooks
Here's a ChipCenter product review of an IEEE-1394 bus data-acquisition device that lets you make portable high-speed 16-bit measurements using a host noetebook PC. (ChipCenter: Test & Measurement)

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