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DAQ PCI Express cards

PCD-8006

With over 25 years of plug-in DAQ card design and manufacturing experience (ISA, PC/104, PCI, PCI Express), TEDIA provides a wide range of industrial data acquisition and control products.

The PCI Express bus, the successor to the conventional PCI bus, is a modern bus providing high data bandwidth (even in the basic x1 Gen1 version it can achieve throughput above 100MB/s in both directions simultaneously) and offers scalability according to device requirements (e.g. PCI Express in versions x1 to x16, or Gen2 and Gen3 variants). However, the fundamental advantage over previous buses is the dedicated data channel for each device; while for previous busses the bandwidth was shared by all devices on the bus, in case of PCI Express each device uses its own data channel and data transfers of different devices are not affected (on bus-level) by each other.

However, PCI Express bus (against PCI bus) does not accelerate data transfer in real-time applications, when the program reads several input values from the card, and writes the control intervention to the outputs. PCI Express achieves high bandwidth throughput only with continuous block data transfer, while with one-time access to registers works a bit slower than a conventional PCI bus. In other words, the high PCI Express data bandwidth will not be used in real-time control application, when whole algorithm runs on a PC.

General properties

Multifunction cards (analog inputs & additional I/O ports)

Type Description
PCA-8428 multifunction card
  - 8 S.E. analog inputs (isolated)
  - 2 analog outputs (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
  - analog inputs/outputs solved by a piggy-back module
PCA-8429 multifunction card
  - 8 S.E. analog inputs (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
  - analog inputs solved by a piggy-back module
PCA-8438 multifunction card
  - 16 S.E. analog inputs (isolated)
  - 2 analog outputs (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
  - analog inputs/outputs solved by a piggy-back module
PCA-8439 multifunction card
  - 16 S.E. analog inputs (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
  - analog inputs solved by a piggy-back module

Analog outputs cards (analog outputs & additional I/O ports)

Type Description
PCA-8288 analog outputs card
  - 8 analog outputs with 12-bit A/D converters (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
  - analog outputs solved by a piggy-back module
PCA-8688 analog outputs card
  - 8 analog outputs with 16-bit A/D converters (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
  - analog outputs solved by a piggy-back module

Digital inputs/outputs cards

Type Description
PCD-8006 digital I/O card
  - 48 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into six 8-bit ports)
PCD-8104 digital I/O card (isolated inputs)
  - 24 isolated digital inputs (TTL/HC signal level)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
PCD-8105 digital I/O card (isolated inputs)
  - 24 isolated digital inputs (24V signal level)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
PCD-8106 digital I/O card (isolated inputs)
  - 24 isolated digital inputs (24V signal level)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)

IRC encoders/counters & SSI controllers cards

Type Description
PCT-8303 IRC encoders/counters card
  - three quadrature encoders & 32-bit counters (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
PCT-8306 IRC encoders/counters card
  - six quadrature encoders & 32-bit counters (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
PCT-8360 SSI controllers card
  - six SSI interfaces (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
PCT-8363 IRC encoders/counters & SSI controllers card
  - three quadrature encoders & 32-bit counters (isolated)
  - six SSI interfaces (isolated)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)

Counters & timers cards

Type Description
PCT-8424 counters & timers card
  - 24 isolated digital inputs (TTL/HC signal level)
  - 24 counters (32-bit, unidirectional) & 24 timers (32-bit)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
PCT-8425 counters & timers card
  - 24 isolated digital inputs (24V signal level)
  - 24 counters (32-bit, unidirectional) & 24 timers (32-bit)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)
PCT-8426 counters & timers card
  - 24 isolated digital inputs (24V signal level)
  - 24 counters (32-bit, unidirectional) & 24 timers (32-bit)
  - 24 DIO (bidirectional I/O lines organized into three 8-bit ports)

Software support

Drivers for the following operating systems are available for DAQ PCIe cards:

Appplication drivers & software utilities:

Note: For more information on drivers and software, see the sections Software & drivers or Download.