Data Acquisition

Data acquisition is the path from a sensor to a named channel. A configuration form sets the device, the input range and the sample rate. The document can then scale, log, calibrate or watch the health of those channels. Serial, TCP and Modbus devices use the same channel idea as a USB DAQ card.

MatDeck's data acquisition tools cover Advantech, LabJack and ICP DAS hardware, plus devices that are only reachable over a COM port or TCP. Sample rate and range are set before the stream starts, because those choices decide both the file size and the highest frequency you can trust.

The products in this group are the steps on that path: hardware setup, streaming, logging, conditioning, calibration, UART, TCP, Modbus, triggered capture, sensor fusion, channel health and a standalone program for the bench.

Products in this group (12)

• Hardware Configuration Toolkit — Forms that set the device, the range and the sample rate before the stream starts.
• Channel Streaming Engine — Named channels with a rate, a range and a timestamp.
• Data Logging Toolkit — Write channels to text, a spreadsheet or a database.
• Signal Conditioning Toolkit — Scale, offset, filter and clip a raw channel.
• Calibration Curve Editor — Stored curves that turn counts into engineering units.
• UART and COM Port Toolkit — Serial acquisition with a small operator window.
• TCP Acquisition Toolkit — Read a TCP stream into the same channels as local hardware.
• Modbus Register Bridge — Map Modbus registers onto named acquisition channels.
• Triggered Waveform Capture — Pre-trigger and post-trigger buffers for one-shot captures.
• Sensor Fusion Estimator — Combine several sensors into one estimated channel.
• Channel Health Monitor — Watch for dropouts, stuck readings and channels that leave their range.
• Standalone DAQ Deployment — Compile an acquisition document into a program for the test bench.