AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO DATA ACQUISITION AND DATA PROCESSING FOR INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS

Abstract

The requirements for data acquisition systems grow rapidly with the progress of technology. Increasingly complex test instruments become available. Integration of instruments and computers into an operational measurement system, however, is more difficult and expensive as requirements increase. A family of instruments was developed which can perform complex measurement tasks without a large integration effort since it provides a large number of compatible hardware and software modules for conditioning and conversion of signals into digital form, for data storage, data transmission, and data pre-processing.