The PowerDNA® Cube is a compact, rugged, Ethernet based DAQ interface, ideally suited for a wide variety of industrial, aerospace and laboratory data acquisition and control applications. Each Cube includes a CPU, real-time OS, Ethernet interface and slots allowing the installation of up to six I/O boards. Configure your PowerDNA Cube by selecting the I/O boards needed to match your application. With over 20 different I/O boards available we’re sure to have just what you need. We’ll even install the boards you’ve ordered and configure your cube before we ship you order.

The PowerDNA Cube is supported by all popular Windows, Linux and Real-time operating systems. Our UEIDAQ Framework provides a simple and universal API and supports all common programming languages. The Cube is also fully supported by an extensive array of application packages including LabVIEW, MATLAB, DASYLab and more.

UEI’s latest cubes have been upgraded to include a 400-MHz PowerPC processor. This processor is based on the 603e core and can perform 760 million floating-point instructions per second. The floating-point-execution unit performs most commands in one or two clock cycles. The PowerDNA cube doubles to 128 Mbytes the amount of 266-MHz double-data-rate random-access memory the cube accommodates. The cube also accepts a secure-digital (SD) card for storing up to 4 Gbytes of data. A spring-loaded connector securely locks the card to the cube.

For more detailed information about PowerDNA, its architecture, performance, DaqBIOS protocol, ports and other features, please download PowerDNA brochure in Adobe PDF format.

The SD-Card allows the cube to operate as a stand-alone data logger and can store many hours of data including analog, digital, CAN-bus, temperature, or strain measurements. A user can program data logging to start and stop at certain times or upon a digital trigger or signal level. When logging is complete, the user can move the SD card from the cube to a card reader to access the accumulated data from a wide range of data-analysis applications.

The PowerPC cube fully supports internal and external synchronization interfaces. The front panel contains a powered, isolated cube-to-cube synchronization interface, which synchronizes data acquisition across multiple cubes. An internal SYNC interface allows triggering or clocking of all layers (UEI’s name for the I/O boards that plug into its PowerDNA cubes) from the same signal line and synchronizing the layers’ time-stamp counters.

The on-board PowerPC processor enables UEI to offer many software products for embedding local control in the cube. The company also offers simulation tools and an open-source real-time operating system. The availability of LAN, SD serial I/O ports simplifies integrating of the cube into embedded control systems.

The DNA PowerPC cubes can be powered from a wide range of DC voltages.

The UeiDaq framework for Windows, an object-oriented software applications-programming interface, provides extensive support with examples for programming languages such as C, C++, and Visual Basic 6; the .Net framework and its managed programming languages, such as C#, VB.Net, and J#; Active X-compatible development environments such as Delphi and Borland CPP builder; the Excel spreadsheet application; and scientific-software packages such as LabVIEW, DASYLab, Matlab, and LabWindows/CVI. An OPC server is also included. The UeiDaq framework is available at no charge with each PowerDNA cube and can be downloaded at www.ueidaq.com/download

A Linux based API is also available at no charge and can be downloaded at www.ueidaq.com/download

PowerDNA works fine with BEDO Signal Conditioning Systems

The picture shows a PowerDNA CM5 Cube integrated into one of Bedo’s SAE-16288 signal-conditioning systems.

The unit, called the SAE-16288-CM5, is equipped with 12 signal amplifiers and 24 analog-input channels with 16-bit resolution and a galvanic isolation of 1500V.

More technical details about the PowerDNA Cubes are available online at www.UEIDAQ.de and about the BEDO SAE System including the complete range of signal conditioning boards at www.bedogmbh.de