ICON BASED DATA
ACQUISITION
SOFTWARE
Measurement Computing Corporation (MCC) has now
released DASYLab 2016. DASYLab is
a data acquisition software
application that allows users to
configure custom acquisition,
analysis, and control applications in
minimal time and without
programming. New enhancements
include a new state machine module,
support for double-precision data,
larger block sizes, and more.
DASYLab boasts a very short
learning curve. Users interactively
develop PC based data acquisition
applications by simply attaching
functional icons. Real time displays,
math and analysis, and control
functions are all included.
DASYLab can be used with
Measurement Computing, Data
Translation, and IOtech brand DAQ
devices from MCC, as well as
hardware from other suppliers. A free
evaluation version of DASYLab is
available for download.
New features include:
• State Machine Module. Easily
set up sophisticated sequences more
easily and efficiently. Users can
reorder steps, or insert, delete, or
append steps at any position in the
state machine.
• Support for Double-Precision
Data. Internal data format changed
from a 32-bit float to a 64-bit double
for data connections between
modules. This structure enhancement
supports high resolution
measurements and significantly
increases accuracy.
• Larger Block Sizes. Block sizes
up to 1 ms are now supported.
Support of larger block sizes
increases the resolution and accuracy
of block-related operations such as
FFT.
• Support for TDM/TDMS File
Format . Users can read/write
National Instruments (NI) technical
data management (TDM) files and
TDM streaming (TDMS) files. TDMS
files combine the benefits of several
data storage formats — ASCII, binary,
XML, and database — into one file
format.
• Enhanced DASYLab DDF File
Format. DASYLab 2016 can read and
store double-precision data. DASYLab
saves all data channels that contain
measurement data, TTL signals,
histogram data, and calculation and
scaling results in a binary DASYLab
data format (.ddf) file.
• Support for Python 2. 7. 10. The
Script module supports Python
2. 7. 10 and many Python libraries in
the public domain.
• Support for Virtual Time Bases.
Users can refer data sources such as
a switch, slider, or generator module
to a virtual time base, and then
change the synchronization to the
real time base for all modules at
once.
• Support for Windows® 10/8/7
32/64-bit.
Current users of DASYLab should
contact Measurement Computing
about upgrade options for their
current version of DASYLab. Pricing
begins at $499 with the DASYLab
Lite version.
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For more information, contact:
Measurement
Computing
www.mccdaq.com