Walpole, MA (April 17, 2008) — United Electronic Industries released Part One in a three-part series of white papers called “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Data Acquisition.” While the primary focus of this first white paper in the series is analog inputs, the paper explains the overall concept of data acquisition (or DAQ) in general, and takes the time to demystify the use of the term as an industry buzzword, before delving into the more technical aspects of, and considerations for, analog input systems. The paper covers popular system types, A/D conversion, input channel configuration, simultaneous sampling, accuracy specifications, sample rate, input range, etc. The paper goes on to cover temperature measurements as well as strain (& stress) measurements in detail.
“Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Data Acquisition” Part One, is available as a free download at: www.ueidaq.com/daq-intro/
About UEI
Founded in 1990, UEI is a leader in the computer based data acquisition and control industry. Serving customers world-wide, UEI products based upon PCI, PXI, ISA and Ethernet interfaces offer unequaled performance as well as flexibility. We are committed to providing the highest quality hardware, software and services, enabling engineers and scientists to interface data-acquisition and control hardware to the real world. Through our state-of-the-art technologies, we serve the needs of individual researchers and developers as well as OEMs.