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Article Excerpt Martin Rowe, Senior Technical Editor, m.rowe@tmworld.com
When you need to keep analog measurement wires short, yet your PC is located farther away from your measurement instrument than either USB or GPIB can reach, Ethernet may just fill the bill.
Data-acquisition applications that use Ethernet include jet-engine testing, machine monitoring, oven and freezer monitoring, and power monitoring. "Power monitoring is becoming more popular with concern over energy savings," said Charlie Stiernberg, product manager for remote data-acquisition products at National Instruments.
Networked data-acquisition systems often handle high channel counts. "Typical applications for our networked data-acquisition systems use 40...
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