MATLAB VIRTUAL CONFERENCE 2015

This year’s MATLAB Virtual Conference will take place on Wednesday, March 25.

With a product focus on MATLAB and Simulink this free event offers four tracks covering all experience levels:

• Introduction to MATLAB and Simulink: Learn the basics of the MATLAB and Simulink product families so that you can get started quickly.
• What's New: Introducing new features and capabilities in MATLAB and Simulink
• Data Analytics: Learn how MATLAB is used to meet various challenges, enabling organisations to gain deeper insights and make more informed decisions.
• MATLAB and Simulink in Academia: Attend presentations that cover techniques and best practices for integrating MATLAB and Simulink into your curriculum and research.

United Electronic Industries is a participating partner this year, and will be showcasing some great Simulink demos on the UEI data acquisition hardware.

This event is completely free to attend, so register now to learn how you can get the most out of MATLAB and Simulink.

Free Aerospace/Avionics Control and Monitoring Systems Webinar Next Week!

 Author - Laura Biddiscombe

Join United Electronic Industries for their
"Control & Monitoring Systems for Aerospace Applications" Webinar!

Wednesday, February 11 from 7-8pm GMT.

What You'll Learn

• How to strengthen the performance of your avionics test and simulation applications
• How high channel density modules, along with AVIONICS bus support, can help you develop a distributed and modular networked architecture that produces results in a “close to the action” environment
• How our hardware, software, and support can help you find the best possible solution.

 

UEI's data acquisition and control products are rugged, reliable, and extensible systems that can be used in a variety of applications. Backed by a 10-year Availability Guarantee, UEI's systems use a variety of modes, operating systems, languages, and interfaces to adapt to how you work.

UEI supports all popular Windows, Vista, Linux and Real-time operating systems and programming languages. We also offer complete and seamless support of all major application packages, including LabVIEW, MATLAB and DASYLab.

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Extra Diagnostic Power When You Need It - The GUARDIAN Series I/O boards from United Electronic Industries

Author: Laura Biddiscombe

The Guardian series of boards from United Electronic Industries (UEI) provide a host of powerful diagnostics and have been extremely popular in simulator applications as well as other applications requiring high system up-time and maintainability.

The Guardian series boards provide an extra level of diagnostics and are designed to help you quickly and easily diagnose and correct short circuits, open circuits, over-voltage conditions and many other possible failure conditions. These features are also very useful when used in conjunction with Power On Self Test (POST). All Guardian series I/O boards are shown on a green background in the latest edition of the UEI Product Catalogue - click here to request a free copy.

With so many I/O options available to the UEI's unique PowerDNA/DNR I/O interface chassis, there are virtually limitless possibilities for deployment to suit your unique application, all with outstanding software support for a great number of operating platforms including Linux, Windows and Real-time operating systems. Application packages including LabVIEW, MATLAB, DASYLab are also supported. As with all PowerDNA/DNR products from UEI, their I/O boards are guaranteed to remain available for the next 10 years.

The DNx-DIO-449 from United Electronic Industries is a 48 channel, high performance AC and DC digital input board designed for use in a wide variety of digital monitoring applications.

For more information please contact Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or email the team.

UEI makes it SIMple: An in-depth look at designing a Temperature Warning System using the UEISIM

Author: Laura Biddiscombe

We promised a new Technical Article... So here it is!

Our very own Alberto Bassett brings us his findings from his first look at designing a Temperature Warning System using the UEISIM from United Electronic Industries (UEI).

A Temperature Warning System is just one example among thousands of applications you can build with United Electronic Industries (UEI) Racks and I/O Layers. This example shows the simplicity you gain when using UEISIM combined with Simulink from MathWorks. The powerful Software Suite that comes with UEI products makes it possible.

Click the image to read the complete article...

Sarsen Technology is Hiring!

We've started the New Year with a lot of focus on the United Electronic Industries product line.

To support this focus we're on the lookout for someone to join the team in an FAE/Sales Engineer

role. We want someone who can provide sales and technical support to both new prospects and existing customers.

If you have a solid technical background and a strong drive to succeed, we're looking for you. The products we supply and support are industry-leading and complex. You would be responsible for sales activity within specified current key accounts and for sales activity at prospects from assigned sales leads.

The skills and experience we are looking for include:

• 2+ years’ experience in an engineering or technical position
• LabVIEW, MATLAB or Simulink programming experience
• Effective written and verbal communications skills
• Programming experience in a PC environment
• Degree in Electronic Engineering, Physics, Computer Science or a related field
• Instrumentation, DAQ or Control system experience
• Linux, QNX, VxWorks or other Real-Time OS experience
• Prior technical support or technical sales experience
• Sound business judgement to quickly identify strong opportunities and action plans
• The ability to work effectively as part of a team
• The ability to quickly build long-term and effective relationships with clients
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Resilience and tenacity
• Independent and creative sales technique
• A full driving licence

If you think you tick these boxes we want to talk to you. Please contact Nigel Norman on +44 1672 511166 or send us an email. 

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

UEI Unveils the MIL-CUBE - IP65, MIL-STD-810 and MIL-STD-461 Data Acquisition and I/O Platform

Housed in a compact 4.1” x 4.0” x 6.75” chassis, the DNA-PPC6-1G-MIL, or MIL-CUBE, delivers unmatched deployment flexibility. It’s easily configured as a stand-alone I/O controller or embedded, programmed and hardened for integration with high density, multi-function data acquisition systems.

The chassis is US manufactured, factory tested, rated for operation from -40°C to +70°C, able to withstand 5g vibration and 100g shock and designed to support a wide range of high- and low-voltage analog and digital signals. All I/O connections to the chassis are through 38999-style round connectors.

Features

• 100% COTS, manufactured in the USA
• Mil-hardened to withstand 5g vibration and 100g shock
• Supported by over 50 compatible analog, digital and interface I/O boards
• Unmatched deployment flexibility
• Compatible with all popular OS and application software
• Built-in self-test and signal conditioning 
• Datasheet

The MIL-Cube supports all popular and MIL-hardened operating systems and programming languages, including Linux, VxWorks, QNX (all with C/C++ drivers) as well as an extensive array of application packages, including LabVIEW, MATLAB and Simulink. The MIL-Cube also features built-in-test and self-diagnostic capability for check status operation and worry-free reliability.

For more information about this brand new product please contact the sales team on +44 1672 511166 or send us an email - info@sarsen.net

UEISIM - Ideal Data Acquisition Platform for Simulink Users

UEISIM from United Electronic Industries is an ideal solution for Simulink users who need to test their simulations on real hardware. Models built in Simulink are deployed directly on the UEISIM using The Mathworks’ Real-Time Workshop.

MathWorks has recently announced Release 2013b (R2013b) of its MATLAB and Simulink product families. R2013b delivers new analysis, design, code generation and implementation and other features in MATLAB and Simulink, two new Polyspace products, as well as updates to 79 other products.

The UEISIM offers Simulink users a new, powerful and flexible I/O target. Models built in Simulink are deployed directly on the UEISIM using Real-Time Workshop. The combination creates a powerful new solution in the creation and tuning of many real-time and non-real-time applications. These include simulation model verification, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. The UEISIM is rugged, flexible and expandable enough that it is not only a great solution while in your development cycle, it’s also the ideal solution for your production hardware.

To use the UEISIM simply:

• Build your Simulink application.
• Open MATLAB, and select Simulink/Embedded target for UEISIM.
• Convert your model to use the UEISIM I/O blocks (if you had not used them in your original model).
• Create an executable via Simulink Coder.
• Connect the UEISIM in "external mode" (if you wish to remotely monitor the application while running on the UEISIM).
• Start your simulation. Six easy steps and your simulation is running live on real hardware.

Whether your application requires a few I/O channels or a few thousand, the UEISIM is an ideal solution. The Cube’s unique combination of clean and simple Simulink/Simulink Coder target compatible Linux operating system, I/O flexibility, compact size, mechanical and electrical ruggedness and ease of use is unparalleled.

For more information please contact Sarsen on +44 1672 511166, or email us - info@sarsen.net

Good Things Come In Flat Packages....

Following the huge success of their RACK and Cube chassis, United Electronic Industries has introduced another rugged and compact data acquisition and I/O measurement and control platform.

Enter.... the FLATRACK™

The DNF-4-1G FLATRACK™ is an Ethernet-based DAQ and control platform in a 1U rackmount chassis. It provides two Gigabit Ethernet (100/10 Base-T compatible) interfaces and four front-loading I/O slots that allow I/O boards to be quickly and easily installed, retrofitted or removed.

The four available slots can be populated from a selection of over 50 I/O layers, including CAN bus, ARINC-429, analog input boards, analog output boards, digital I/O interfaces for logic and real-world signal levels, counters and timers and quadrature encoder inputs. The list goes on….

You can also choose AC or DC powered versions of the DNF-4-1G. The DC version requires a DC power source between 9 and 36 Volts. The AC unit operates from 100 to 240 VAC, from 50 to 60 Hz.

And of course, no system is complete without software. The DNF-4-1G FLATRACK is supported by all popular Windows, Linux, Vista, and real-time operating systems (RTOS), and the UEIDAQ Framework (included with the rack) provides a simple and universal API layer to support all common programming languages.


The DNF-4-1G is also fully supported by an array of application packages including LabVIEW, MATLAB, DASYLab and more.

For more information please contact the sales team at Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or send us an email.

Training on a Friday afternoon....

Every so often at Camp Sarsen, we decide it’s time to refresh our knowledge and tap into our manufacturer’s vast resources with a little bit of training.

This week UEI are sharing their secrets about the UEISIM. It's a great bit of kit, and it's one that has seen growing interest over the last few months. So we decided to swot up to make sure we're ready to answer all your questions about the hardware and how it works.

The UEISIM is available on PPC Cube, GigE Cube and RACKtangle platforms

In basic terms, the UEISIM turns a PowerDNx Ethernet data acquisition module into a target on which you can run Simulink models and read/write physical I/O. It offers Simulink users a flexible I/O target for real time applications like simulation model verification, rapid prototyping, and hardware-in-the-loop testing. You can use it to experiment with control system design, signal processing, data acquisition and similar tasks directly from the Simulink environment, without the need to use any additional tools.

We will be delving into UEISIM nitty-gritty this afternoon, looking at the software, I/O capabilities, deployment scenarios, ruggedisation, chassis design and connectivity ports and interfaces.

If our brains are still intact after all then give us a call to:
a) test us, or
b) discuss your Simulink application!

T - +44 1672 511166
E - info@sarsen.net

Have a great weekend!

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance". Confucius

Sarsen Spotlight Shines on the UEI Guardian Series

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is a leader in the PC/Ethernet data acquisition and control, Data Logger/Recorder and Programmable Automation Controller (PAC) and Modbus TCP markets.

They currently offer over 50 different I/O boards for their Cube and RACKtangle chassis. The RACK/Cube versions of the boards are electrically identical and use the same printed circuit board, components and software.

The 'Guardian' series boards provide a host of powerful diagnostics, and have been extremely popular in simulator applications as well as other projects requiring high system up time and maintainability.

The Guardian series boards are designed to help you quickly and easily diagnose and correct short circuits, open circuits, over-voltage conditions and many other possible failure conditions. These features are also very useful when used in conjunction with Power On Self Test (POST).

Some of the benefits of the Guardian Series

• Built-in monitoring of output voltage and current detects shorts/opens
• PWM output and soft-start mode
• Built-in A/D converter allows actual input voltage to be measured
• Output current readback
• Output voltage readback

The PowerDNA Cube and RACKtangle I/O chassis and I/O layers are supported by all popular Windows, Linux and Real-time operating systems. The UEIDAQ Framework provides a simple and universal API and supports all common programming languages. The Cube is also fully supported by an extensive array of application packages including LabVIEW, MATLAB, DASYLab and more.

With so many I/O options available there are virtually limitless possibilities for deployment to suit your unique application. UEI also guarantees that the hardware you purchase today will be still be available 10 years from now, giving you complete peace of mind that your solution will be supported for the duration of it's life, and possibly beyond!

For more information on UEI and the Guardian series, please give us a call on +44 1672 511166, or email us. We look forward to hearing from you!

Data Acquisition and Temperature Monitoring with United Electronic Industries

United Electronic Industries (UEI) is a leading provider of PC based I/O products, including Ethernet data acquisition and embedded/industrial control interfaces, Data Loggers/Recorders and Linux based Embedded Controllers (PACs).
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.

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