TracerDaq software goes full feature
Staff -- Test & Measurement World, 6/1/2007
The TracerDaq software that has been bundled with data-acquisition products from Measurement Computing is now a full-featured optional product. Unlike the bundled version, which lets you verify that your data-acquisition hardware is working, the new TracerDaq Pro provides oscilloscope, chart recorder, function generator, and rate generator applications and lets you store configurations, save data to a file for export, and change settings while an application runs.
The strip-chart recorder can log and graph data from analog, digital, counter/timer, and temperature inputs from one or more Measurement Computing instruments. It can capture samples at the maximum speed of the data-acquisition board (up to 1 million samples per channel). TracerDaq Pro also lets you trigger, on events, set alarm conditions, add comments to the signal plot, play back an acquisition, and import and plot binary and text data.
The software’s oscilloscope application lets you view values acquired from analog inputs. It also samples at an instrument's maximum sample rate, triggers on an event, adds a reference or a math channel, displays measurement values for each channel, and scales channel data into engineering units.
The function generator lets you select sine, square, triangle, constant, sawtooth, or custom waveforms for analog outputs at the maximum rate of an instrument’s analog output section. The software displays the sample waveform, samples per cycle, internal scan rate, and base frequency of an analog channel output signal. It can perform linear and logarithmic sweeps, change the phase, duty cycle, rate multiplier, and gate ratio of the waveform. TracerDaq Pro’s rate generator lets you produce output clock signals with variable frequency, duty cycle, and initial state of the waveform.
Price: $199. Measurement Computing, www.measurementcomputing.com.
