Laboratory automatic data acquisition system
L.E. Schantz · 1977
A laboratory automatic data acquisition system (ADAS) has been established in the electronic products laboratory. The system consists of three basic blocks: the software control calculator, which controls the entire system, receives data from the system, and acts upon it in some intelligent manner; a variety of laboratory measuring equipment which gathers data and inputs it in BCD format; and the coupler/controller-and-patch-panel combination which makes it possible for BDC information from the gathering apparatus to be transmitted to the calculator. Approximately 50 software programs have been written for the system, including one which permits the ADAS system to scan resistors, measure their values, record the values, and permit the percent change in resistor values to be plotted. A program has also been written for data on temperature coefficients of resistance on thin film resistors.