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Download images from the list below to illustrate Microstar Laboratories press releases. Contact us if you have questions or would like to talk with us about any of our products.
March 21, 2008
Control for Hard Cases: Zero-Shaping – PIDZST Command Includes Self-Tuning
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Suggested Caption: PID control action and system response after automatic tuning by PIDZST. Notice the disturbance level of about 100 units compared to the operating level of about 16000 units.
December 11, 2007
Real-Time Applications on a Windows PC – Using an Onboard Real-Time Operating System
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Suggested Caption: You can develop and run a real-time application under Windows. An onboard processor runs a real-time operating system on a DAP board that you control from a Windows application. This lets data flow predictably through a consistent channel architecture that specifies the signal path all the way from a waveform at the sensor or actuator to a stream of digital values on the PC.
October 17, 2007
Event-Based Data Acquisition – Software Triggering Explained
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Suggested Caption: A transient glitch can easily set off a hardware trigger. A software trigger can rely on processing to distinguish real events from noise. The article on the company Web site describes the processing applied to a microphone signal to make this distinction and so provide a reliable trigger.
September 17, 2007
White Paper – Implementing Automatic Controls on a Windows PC
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Suggested Caption: Implementing Automatic Controls Using Data Acquisition Processor Boards
August 29, 2007
Network-Ready Data Acquisition Packaged in a Single Box
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Suggested Caption: For a conveniently packaged, network-ready data acquisition system that protects your application from local and network-related delays, and that lets you start development right away, take a look at the new DAPserver 400 from Microstar Laboratories, shown here controlled from DAPstudio. You can download a full version of DAPstudio at no charge for an unlimited trial. Trying out DAPstudio on your own PC will give you a sense of how quickly and easily you could develop an application based on one or more DAPservers.
June 26, 2007
Analog Outputs with Isolated Grounds – MSXB 076
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Suggested Caption: Specifying the MSXB 076 Analog Output Expansion Board shown here protects your application from two serious potential problems: ground currents and phase errors.
June 14, 2007
Control Loops Adjust to Process Change – Automatically
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Suggested Caption: Before and After Self-Tuning – The red trace shows the plant response to a step disturbance. Before self-tuning, the plant is slow to respond and slow to settle. It takes about 40 controller updates to settle. After self-tuning, the plant responds quickly... and settles in roughly 15 controller updates.
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Suggested Caption: An application based on a single board – like the DAP 5216a/627 – using a basic PID algorithm and optimized for multiple channel operation can be updated at time intervals as short as 0.05 milliseconds on every channel, without ever missing an update.
May 22, 2007
Digital I/O for High Channel Counts – Isolated Ground
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Suggested Caption: The MSXB 078 digital expansion board combines an isolated ground with simultaneous sampling and updating on multiple boards.
April 23, 2007
Data Acquisition: A Useful Resource
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Suggested Caption: The SoundPrint® system uses arrays of sensors connected to DAP boards to measure the energy released when tensioned steel wires fail. Pure Technologies now has installed the system on nine major cable-supported bridges around the world, including the Chesapeake Bay Suspension Bridge in Maryland, the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland, and the Quincy Bayview Bridge in Illinois, shown here.
March 28, 2007
Sensor Signal Conditioning for High Channel Counts
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Suggested Caption: DAPcell synchronizes data acquisition on networked PCs to within a few nanoseconds in this sensor signal-conditioning system package from Microstar Laboratories.
February 2, 2007
A Clear Path to Windows Vista
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Suggested Caption: DAPstudio – like any other Windows application that uses DAPcell – requires no changes to run under Windows Vista.
October 31, 2006
Create a User Interface in Minutes – DAPstudio 3.00
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Suggested Caption: DAPstudio 3.00 lets you run applications like this PID tuning simulation from a matrix of user controls that you can quickly set up in a custom window as explained in the text.
September 13, 2006
Scalable 16-Bit Data Acquisition – DAP 5016a/527
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Suggested Caption: You can use DAPstudio, a Windows application, to configure each high-resolution DAP 5016a/527 board in a synchronized network. You then can use DAPstudio to run your data acquisition application from any PC on the network. DAP boards also work with LabVIEW, or with any application that allows DLL calls.
August 30, 2006
Just Add Strain Gauges for Single-Box Solution
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Suggested Caption: DAPserver 200 system with software preloaded and with interface boards installed – ready for up to 32 strain gauges.
July 28, 2006
Simultaneous Sampling on Many Channels – DAP 5380a/526
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Suggested Caption: You can configure any number of synchronized DAP 5380a/526 boards like this one using DAPstudio, a Windows application. You then can run your application, sampling all channels simultaneously, from any PC on a network. DAP boards also work with LabVIEW, or with any application that allows DLL calls.
July 13, 2006
Fast Sampling and High Resolution – DAP 5216a/627
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Suggested Caption: You can configure this high-resolution DAP 5216a/627 board using DAPstudio, a Windows application. You then can use DAPstudio to run your data acquisition application from any PC on a network. DAP boards also work with LabVIEW, or with any application that allows DLL calls.
June 22, 2006
Data Acquisition with Onboard Processing – DAP 5000a/526
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Suggested Caption: The Intel Pentium 233MHz CPU on this DAP 5000a/526 Data Acquisition Processor board runs a real-time OS that you control from Windows.
June 8, 2006
Signal Conditioning and Simultaneous Sampling of Filtered Signals
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Suggested Caption: You now can design filters that roll off at better than 96dB per quarter octave. Download the latest version of DAPstudio measurement software for a free trial and see for yourself. DAPstudio also lets you configure and control any DAP board in a system.
May 23, 2006
Develop a Real-Time Solution – Ship It as a Windows Product
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Suggested Caption: Black Diamond Engineering uses a DAP board in a PC-based instrument that performs in-place diagnosis of control valve problems.
March 30, 2006
DAPstudio PC-Based Measurement Software – Version 2.50 – Waterfall Displays with Rotating Colors
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Suggested Caption: DAPstudio 2.5 displays live data in several formats, each with an optional 3D view. You can download the full version for a free trial, and use it to view any binary data files.
March 9, 2006
MSXB 066 and MSXB 067: Signal Conditioning for Strain Gauges, Load Cells, RTDs, and other Resistive Sensors
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Suggested Caption: The MSXB 067 provides analog signal conditioning for strain gauges, load cells, RTDs, and other resistive sensors with fourth-order lowpass filters on the additional daughterboards, installed in the center, to eliminate alias errors.
October 27, 2005
DAPstudio PC-Based Measurement Software – Version 2.00
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Suggested Caption: You now can develop and run complete PC-based data acquisition systems quickly and easily and display the data in customized alarms, digital volt meters, graphs, and more.
June 23, 2005
MSXB 064 and MSXB 065: Effective Signal Conditioning
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Suggested Caption: The MSXB 065 provides analog signal conditioning for voltage signals with fourth-order lowpass filters on the additional daughterboards, installed on the left, to eliminate alias errors.
May 31, 2005
MSXB 061: High-Density Data Acquisition at US$25 per Differential Input
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Suggested Caption: The MSXB 061 provides 64 differential inputs at a low per-channel cost. This system includes 4 MSXB 061 boards in a half-size enclosure connected to a DAP board: 256 channels of differential input, in a single package.
March 25, 2005
DAPstudio PC-Based Measurement Software – Version 1.5
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Suggested Caption: You now can develop and run complete PC-based data acquisition systems quickly and easily, with multi-terabyte data files supported.
November 24, 2004
DAPstudio PC-Based Measurement Software Speeds Development
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Suggested Caption - Image A: You now can develop and run complete PC-based data acquisition systems quickly and easily in a 3-step process shown in the screenshots here: 1) configure your channels, 2) add processing, 3) then run your application.
Suggested Caption - Image B: DAPstudio makes it easy to add all the onboard processing you require.
March 26, 2003
DAPserver PC-Based Test Products Use Eurocard Channel Architecture
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Suggested Caption - Image A: The Microstar Laboratories DAPserver 200 – preloaded with Linux or Windows and DAPcell network server software, ready for application development
Suggested Caption - Image B: The Microstar Laboratories DAPserver 200 – back view, showing 10-slot Eurocard cage on left, 5 PCI slots on right
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