Product of the month

NASA Tech Briefs, Apr 2002

The Toro analog I/O DSP card from Innovative Integration, Simi Valley, CA, is designed for servo control and data acquisition applications. Its 150-MHz, 32-bit, floating-point DSP controls 16 simultaneous channels of independent A/D and D/A conversion. The unit's 32/64-bit PCI bus is capable of up to 264 Mbytes/second data bursts. On-chip resources include two 32-bit counter/timers, 16 DMA channels, 64 kbytes of dual-access SRAM, and a prioritized interrupt controller. The Toro features a choice of triggering modes that allows the user to select start/stop trigger events from on-chip timers, external trigger, and analog threshold on synclink signals from other cards. A built-in real-time event log in the firmware provides the user with a record of trigger times and user-defined events.

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2001 Product of the Year Winners

On March 18, the winners of NASA Tech Brie.fs' Readers' Choice Product of the Year Awards were announced in Chicago at a special reception held during National Manufacturing Week. Here are the winners, as chosen by the readers of NASA Tech Briefs:

Gold Winner & Product of the Year

Version 5 VX CAD/CAM Software from VX Corporation (Palm Bay, FL)

The design-through-manufacturing software eliminates the gap between CAD and CAM packages, and features manual and automatic healing of imported solid models, and direct import/translation of Pro/E, Catia, and Parasolid files. (www.vx.com)

Bronze Winner

Measurement Studio(TM) 6.0 Measurement Software from National Instruments (Austin, TX)

Engineers use these tools to create test, measurement, and control applications in various programming languages such as LabWindows/CVI, Visual Basic, and Visual C . Data is displayed in real-time 2D and 3D graphs and charts. (www.ni.com)

Silver Winner

Mathcad Client Software from MathSoft Engineering & Education (Cambridge, MA)

The software allows sharing and collaborating on Mathcad-created content across the Internet, and via corporate extranets and intranets. Users can interact with technical documents and applications, including Mathcad worksheets, electronic books, and MathML documents. (www.mathsoft.com)