Multifunction Boards
When you know you'll be setting up a stimulus/response test, when you know you'll be implementing a closed-loop system or if you just want to be ready for any kind of testing situation, a multifunction board is the logical choice. Our PD2-MF Series PCI multifunction data acquisition and control boards pack everything you'll likely need: as many as 64 single-ended/32 differential analog to digital inputs running at speeds to 3 MS/s, dual analog outputs, 32 digital I/O lines plus three counter/timers available to users.
To allow all these I/O subsystems to run simultaneously without loading down the host CPU, MF Series cards run under control of a Motorola DSP. Thus you can collect analog samples while generating waveforms yet have the resources to perform digital I/O and run the counter/timers - all at the same time. Operating in this fashion presents no constraints on setup parameters, either: a custom PGIA (programmable-gain instrumentation amplifier) design runs any or all channels at different gains without the need to trade off peak throughput rate or accuracy.
We supply a complete set of drivers for all popular programming languages and third-party applications including LabVIEW and Agilent VEE - and at no additional charge. The support package also comes with example programs, complete with source code, that are so extensive that some of them might be enough to solve your problem straight out of the box.
To achieve optimum performance under Windows, we wrote the boards' 32-bit driver from scratch without relying on any legacy code. This advanced protocol-based driver works with shareable buffers in system RAM and makes obsolete traditional register-based drivers and double-buffering schemes. MF Series boards can stream data to disk continuously, gap-free, at the hardware's peak acquisition rates.
