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How to Monitor Temperature in a Production Furnace
An Acromag Solutions Video Application Note A manufacturer of specialty furnaces needs to monitor their temperature control, provide warnings/alarms for temperature near fault conditions, and document consistent temperatures throughout the sintering process. Click here to download How to Monitor Temperature in a Production Furnace Click on the AcroMaggie video below to learn How to Monitor…
What is MIL-STD-1553? An Introduction
Intro to Military Standard 1553 | Acromag Solutions Video This video will give you an understanding of U.S. Military and NATO standard communications network MIL-STD-1553. MIL-STD-1553 is a digital internal time division command/response multiplex data bus. It’s a military standard which has become one of the basic tools used by the U.S. Department of Defense…
Get Started Fast and Easy with a Zynq® UltraScale+ MPSoC FPGA Development Kit – Published in the February 1, 2022 eNewsletter
Custom Embedded Computing with Re-Configurable FPGAs on Off-the-Shelf Mezzanine Modules Acromag offers you an easy, cost-effective package to start your FPGA development today. User-configurable FPGA I/O modules offer the ability to create custom I/O boards. Just download your own instruction sets into the I/O module’s FPGA. You can use your own application program to control…
See How to Display Flow Rate from a DP Transmitter in this Short Video – Published in the January 11, 2022 eNewsletter
See How to Display Flow Rate from a DP Transmitter in this Short Video A water treatment facility has differential pressure (DP) transmitters that they want to display the flow rate from. The output is a 4 to 20mA signal to their SCADA system. They also want to display the flow rate to the operators…
OpenVPX™ Boards are Rugged and Military Ready – Published in the January 4, 2022 eNewsletter
The AcroExpress® 3U and 6U SBC modules can support either one or two DDR4 ECC SODIMMs, for a total of up to 32GB. The SODIMMs are firmly attached to the module with screws and surrounded by heat sink material to provide a mechanically and thermally robust mechanism. Extended temperature models are available for operating in…
How to Display Flow Rate from a DP Transmitter
DP Flow via Square Root Extraction | An Acromag Solutions Video Application Note A water treatment facility has differential pressure (DP) transmitters that they want to display the flow rate from. The output is a 4 to 20mA signal to their SCADA system. They also want to display the flow rate to the operators working…
New 10-Gigabit Ethernet XMC Modules – Published in the December 13, 2021 eNewsletter
Rugged, rear I/O version of this 10GbE Network Interface Card (NIC) mezzanine module is available offering KX4 backplane connections to Intel’s XL710 Ethernet Controller. Acromag’s new XMC633 module offers two independent 10-gigabit Ethernet interface ports with 10GBASE-KX4 protocol. The XMC mezzanine card mounts on VME, VPX, PCIe and other embedded computing carrier boards. An industry-leading…
See How to Send Signals to Multiple Locations Simultaneously in this Short Video – Published in the December 7, 2021 eNewsletter
A satellite launch company needs to send a discrete abort signal to multiple locations at the same time if anything gets out of specification. The equipment to monitor and control the launch are in several different buildings but all on the same network. Timing is critical and all signals must be sent at the same…
New 10-Gigabit Ethernet XMC Module Features Dual 10GBASE-KX4 Ports and Conduction-Cooling Support
Rugged, rear I/O version of this 10GbE Network Interface Card (NIC) mezzanine module is available offering KX4 backplane connections to Intel’s XL710 Ethernet Controller. Wixom, MI: Acromag’s new XMC633 module offers two independent 10-gigabit Ethernet interface ports with 10GBASE-KX4 protocol. The XMC mezzanine card mounts on VME, VPX, PCIe and other embedded computing carrier boards….
How to Distribute Critical Signals Simultaneously to Multiple Locations
An Acromag Solutions Video Application Note A satellite launch company needs to send a discrete abort signal to multiple locations at the same time if anything gets out of specification. The equipment to monitor and control the launch are in several different buildings but all on the same network. Click here to download How to…