Microstar Offers Board for Analog Output and Simultaneous Updates
MSXB 075 boards fit into a backplane in a standard industrial enclosure or in a DAPserver.
| Published July 1, 2008
 The MSXB 075 for isolated analog outputs and simultaneous updates can protect your application from ground currents and phase errors. |
Microstar Laboratories, Inc. (Bellevue, WA) says that using its new board lets you avoid ground currents and phase errors, which are two serious problems that may affect analog outputs, at a reasonable cost per channel, even for a few outputs.
The new board (part number MSXB 075) offers isolated analog expansion for Data Acquisition Processor (DAP) boards for PC-based systems. It includes four single-ended analog outputs, provides an isolated ground for each output, and updates all channels simultaneously. MSXB 075 boards fit into a backplane in a standard industrial enclosure or in a DAPserver. The DAPserver also contains one or more DAP boards and can contain other expansion boards for isolated analog input and isolated digital input and output. It then forms a ready-to-run package for applications that require complete protection from ground currents and phase errors.
The MSXB 075 board ($475) includes a cable that lets you run a DAPserver from any PC with an Ethernet connector.
For details, contact Microstar Laboratories, Inc.
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.