Test & Measurement: ETS Driver Gives PowerDAQ Cards Real-Time Embedded Development

Nov. 29, 2004

United Electronic Industries and VenturCom have jointly announced the PowerDAQ for ETS (Embedded Tool Suite) driver, which lets users access all of the functionality of UEI's PowerDAQ line of PCI and PXI cards under VenturCom's Phar Lap ETS real-time operating system. Users can statistically link the driver, kernel, and application into one executable program or dynamically link these elements on a Windows PC. Drivers include multifunction, simultaneous-sampling multifunction, analog-output, and digital-I/O types. The driver is part of the PowerDAQ software suite that ships with every PowerDAQ card at no charge. It's also downloadable from UEI's Web site.

United Electronic Industrieswww.ueidaq.com; (781) 821-2890

About the Author

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.