KineticSystems ::. Data Acquisition (DAQ)

Company: National Research Council of Canada (NRC)

"... KineticSystems is the Rolls Royce."
"When the clients see our VXI system, they know we're in the big leagues."
"You get more performance out of the VXI . . . If you look at the specs of VXI equipment, you'll see temperature accuracy is better, channel rates are higher and reliability is presumably better."
"The hardware is beautiful," "There's no knocking it. When KineticSystems says a module will scan at 100 kHz; it scans at 100 kHz. Signals are nice and clean."
"There are several features you don't find with VXI equipment from other manufacturers. KineticSystems provides per channel amplifiers and permits more flexibility when you set up scan rates."
"There are also pre- and post-filtering gains on KineticSystems signal conditioning modules." "And the filters tend to be better."
"With KineticSystems product, you can be sure it's high-quality hardware with nice, tight specs..."

Company: Sverdrup/AEDC

... based on VXI architecture incorporating multi-channel A/D cards with on-board signal conditioning. Strain gages, thermocouples, RTDs, and miscellaneous analog inputs are conditioned ...
The system uses a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter per channel. All digitized samples for each channel are placed in reflective memory, using a multi-buffered technique, and are recorded to disk.
Digitizers send digital data back to a host computer over fiber-optic cables.
The new on cart DACS (front-end wrapper using DAQ Director as back-end) has been successfully used on three test programs with very impressive reductions in installation time.
The use of a revolutionary approach to providing the instrumentation and control systems needed to support wind tunnel tests in 16T ... has proved to be very successful.
The hardware reliability after extensive checkout has proven to be acceptable and not requiring frequent access for adjustment or repair.
... the reflective memory has proved to be an acceptable method for networking systems in a real-time environment.
We have achieved significant reductions in the time required to install a test, which provides more tunnel time availability, lower costs, and better value for our customer.