Test & Measurement: 48-Bit PCI Bus Digital I/O Card Sets Price/Performance Ratio

March 15, 2004

Priced at just $149, the high-performance PCI-DIO48H-RT 48-bit digital I/O card for the PCI bus sets a new price/performance ratio. Like other boards in the PCI-DIO family, this board is based on Schottky transistor-transistor-logic emulations of the 82C55 mode 0, and it will sink or source 15 mA at standard logic levels. The company also has reduced the price of its 96-bit PCI-DIO96H board from $299 to $249. The boards are fully compatible with the company's wide assortment of screw terminal and interconnect boards as well as a variety of electromechanical relays and solid-state I/O modules. All boards include the company's InstaCAL installation and test application package.

Measurement Computing Corp.www.mccdaq.com; (508) 946-5100

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Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.