Macintosh: Data Aquisition, Analysis, and Display



I want a package that can pull information directly from an oscilloscope and
graph it so that the chart can later be integrated into a Macintosh word
processing document. I know of National Instruments' products, but they aren't
appropriate for my application. Do you have any alternatives?

We searched the Macintosh Buyer's Guide on AppleLink and found two companies
that may be able to help.

Ansan Industries, Ltd's MacScope
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MacScope from Ansan Industries, Ltd. is a turnkey data-acquisition system that
combines the measurement capability of Gould's model 1425 Digital Storage
Oscilloscope with the high-resolution graphics and user interface of the
Macintosh. Desktop engineering and desktop publishing are combined in a system
that can handle data acquisition and presentation tasks. MacScope can do
in-depth computation and analysis and generate presentation graphics or
technical documents. Data is captured at two samples to two megasamples per
second for one-shot events. Repetitive waveforms can be stored with a 20MHz
bandwidth in the equivalent time mode.


Spectral Innovations' MacDSP24MC and MacDSP16K
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Spectral Innovations' MacDSPSW-002 is an interactive signal-processing package
that offers real-time spectral and time analysis, filtering, modulation, and
other signal processing techniques at a mouse click. This lets you see
effects on processed data immediately.

Analog and digital signals are sampled at up to 1MHz using Spectral
Innovations' data-acquisition expansion cards. Sampled signals are instantly
processed by the MacDSP signal processing card with screen updates 20 times per
second. Real-time color displays include oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer,
waterfall, spectrogram, and three-dimensional contour graphs.

For more details, search the Tech Info ibrary under "Ansan Industries" and
"Spectral Innovations."


Published Date: Feb 18, 2012