“SAT-14”
High Performance, Simultaneous Sampling, Web-Enabled Data
Acquisition
Livingston,
UK 9th October 2003 : Scottish Data Acquisition System
maker, Scalar Acquisition Technology, announced
the first of its new generation of Advanced Data Acquisition
Systems.
Scalar Acquisition Technology. has developed the SAT-14
web enabled data acquisition system. Capable of performing
high resolution transient data capture over hundreds, even
thousands of channels simultaneously, the SAT-14 system is
a high performance, platform independent, multi-channel simultaneous
transient data acquisition system. It features remote control,
via any web browser, over an Ethernet connection (up to 1
Gigabit), and can export data in MATLAB and other standard
file formats.
Applications are in Earth Sciences, Aerospace and Defence,
Automotive Testing, Modelling and Simulation, Production
Monitoring and Vibration Analysis. As most prospective users
in these markets are not themselves data acquisition experts,
the design brief was to produce a high performance product,
at reasonable cost, which is easy to set up and use, and
can be controlled from any commonly available computer platform,
whether workstation or PC.
Commenting
at the product launch, Sales Director Steve Tomlinson stated:
"We are addressing a substantial market for high performance
data acquisition systems, where customers
simply want to be able to purchase at reasonable cost, take
the system out of the box, switch it on and start using it.
Rather than the DIY approach and expecting the customer to
assemble a system, our modular architecture allows us to
build a custom, affordable system and ship a turnkey solution.
In addition, our unique software allows the system to run
virtually stand-alone, and it can be controlled from any
computer with sufficient performance to handle the data by
using a standard web-browser over an Ethernet connection.”
A SAT-14
system is built up of one or more System Elements. Normally
supplied in a 4U 19” rack-mounted enclosure,
each System Element contains a processor and power supply,
and a number of powerful data acquisition cards. System Elements
can be “stacked” and operated simultaneously
to build up a large multi-channel system with simultaneous
operation of several hundred channels or more.
Maximum
sample rate is 10MSPS on each channel. The system design
is modular and flexible, and is built according to
the user’s specification for sampling rate and record
length. For example a single System Element can record 8
channels sampling simultaneously at 10MSPS for 6.4 seconds,
or 64 channels sampling at 1.8MSPS for 4.4 seconds, or some
other combination of sample rate and record length between
these two extremes.
Further additions, with higher speed, resolution and advanced
features will be announced soon.
For
more information see data
sheet or contact:
Steve
Tomlinson
Sales and Marketing Director
Scalar Acquisition Technology
9 Cochrane Square
Brucefield Industry Park
Livingston
EH54 9DR
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