Date: 07/10/2009

Advanced CompactDAQ chassis for USB data acquisition from NI

NI has introduced the NI cDAQ-9174 four-slot and cDAQ-9178 eight-slot NI CompactDAQ chassis with the features such as, the ability to take mixed-sensor measurements at different rates, two built-in, external BNC triggers, and four advanced counters along with NI-DAQmx driver and measurement services software for the NI LabVIEW graphical programming and development environment.

NI CompactDAQ supports Hi-Speed USB throughput with NI signal streaming technology to simultaneously perform multiple, high-speed operations such as waveform measurements, generation, digital I/O and counter operations.

The new cDAQ-9174 and cDAQ-9178 chassis, sample from NI C Series analog input modules at different rates instead of single-rate sampling in the cDAQ-9172 chassis to eliminate the need to oversample or decimate unwanted data. The cDAQ-9178 eight-slot chassis offer external BNC triggers to make synchronizing systems easy.

NI CompactDAQ is compatible with Windows 7, and the NI CompactDAQ chassis shows a 10 percent performance boost for some high-bandwidth streaming applications when compared with the same program run on Windows XP.

Operating temperature range: -20°C to 55°C

For more details visit www.ni.com

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