Microstar puts real-time applications on Windows PC

-- Test & Measurement World, 1/7/2008 6:01:00 AM

You can develop and run a real-time application under Windows—without writing a single line of code—using DAPstudio software and a Data-Acquisition Processor (DAP) board from Microstar Laboratories.

Each DAP board gives you an additional processor running a real-time operating system that you control from a Windows application anywhere on your network. You can have any number of synchronized DAP boards on a network, all acquiring data and emitting signals as required. The system follows a consistent hardware and software channel architecture, implemented in memory as data pipes.

DAPstudio lets you specify the runtime behavior of each DAP by clicking on an appropriate processing tool for the onboard processor to use at runtime as it transfers data from one pipe to another.

You can download a full version of DAPstudio and try it out for an unlimited period at no charge. If you need a processing tool not already provided, you can create your own using a standard Windows development environment or have Microstar make it for you. The company will even supply a DAP board at no charge for a trial period.

Microstar Laboratories, www.mstarlabs.com.