Test & Measurement: Low-Cost NI-DAQmx I/O Cards Set Price/Performance Ratios

Jan. 19, 2004

Starting at $295, five digital and analog I/O cards for the company's NI-DQmx software set a new price/performance ratio for data-acquisition and control in industrial automation and control, T&M, and OEM applications. These cards include the PCI-6509 industrial 96-channel 5-V transistor-transistor-level bidirectional digital I/O card, the PCI-6514 isolated industrial 32-channel digital input and 32-channel source digital output card, and the PCI-6515 isolated industrial 32-channel digital input and 32-channel sink digital output card. Also, the PCI-6722 eight-channel card has 13-bit simultaneous voltage output, and the PCI-6723 32-channel card has 13-bit simultaneous voltage output.

National Instruments Inc.www.ni.com/dataacquisition; (800) 258-7022

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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.