UEI supply products to many different markets, with a focus on simulation, industrial, aerospace, and laboratory data acquisition and control applications.
If you're not sure whether UEI has the right product to solve your problem you should check out the application stories on their website; you may be surprised how many different uses there are for the UEI hardware...
High
Channel Count Temperature Monitoring
A
major appliance manufacturer automated temperature measurement in a CSA oven
test stand. Though conceptually a simple application, the system requires
monitoring over 1700 thermocouples.The
previous solution involved four technicians monitoring a bank of digital panel
meters and making manual entries into a test log. This inefficient, error-prone method was replaced by 18 PowerDNA DNA-PPC8 Cubes populated with DNA-AI-207 analog input boards.
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| DNA-AI-207 analog input board |
The Cubes are distributed around the test chamber, minimizing the length of thermocouple wire required. The built-in single port Ethernet switch provided in the PowerDNA Cube allows the Ethernet to be daisy chained from one cube to the next. The entire system is implemented using a single Ethernet port on the host computer.
Software
for this system was written in C++ using the UEIDAQ Framework. The Framework provides
a powerful, yet simple set of drivers that may be called from all popular
programming languages and application packages (e.g., LabVIEW, MATLAB) and
supports Windows/ Vista. UEI also provides a high level API to support Linux
and most popular Real-Time operating systems including QNX, RTX, and VxWorks.
The library adds simulated hardware that allows you to test-drive the software,
(or start developing your application) without any DAQ hardware. The UEIDAQ
library is included with all UEI DAQ hardware at no charge. It is available for
download from the UEI website.
The PowerDNA® (Distributed Networked Automation) Cube and PowerDNR RACKtangles are compact, rugged, Ethernet-based data acquisition and control chassis. PowerDNA series chassis act as I/O slaves to a host computer. Programs/applications running on a host PC receive data from input (or I/O) boards within the chassis and write data to output channels. I/O boards may be installed in any combination, allowing the Cube/RACKtangle to be precisely matched to your system requirements. This configuration works well in both data acquisition and control applications.
Supporting LabVIEW, DASYLab and MATLAB, UEI is a great choice for your data acquisition and control requirements...
Tell us about your application - email laura.jeffs@sarsen.net or call the office on +44 1672 511166
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