Often, you’ll need to acquire signals at very high sample rates. Higher sample rates allow you to capture voltage transients, or events that occur in a very short period of time. And since all channels in WinDaq are sampled at the same rate, you might get the results you’re looking for on some channels, and Read More
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Convert and Combine WinDaq Files in Microsoft Excel Format
Getting data into Microsoft Excel format is one of the most common customer requests. Often times customers are dealing with numerous data files, and the prospect of manually converting those files, one-by-one, into .CSV format. Fortunately, the software engineering team here at DATAQ has a solution! In conjunction with the WINDH32.EXE (WinDaq Waveform Browser), the Read More
Is the Windows Defender Firewall Blocking WinDaq?
The WinDaq Dashboard allows you to view all WinDaq-compatible instruments connected to your PC, run independent WinDaq applications for those devices, and display and acquire data synchronously from multiple ChannelStretch™ -enabled instruments in a single WinDaq application. To do so however, you may need to allow the WinDaq Dashboard application through the Windows Firewall. In Read More
Save Select Channels as a New WinDaq File
Data Acquisition > Software > WinDaq Perhaps you’re using WinDaq data acquisition software to record a file containing 10 or 20 channels of data. Now suppose you’re sending that file to a colleague, who is really only interested in two of those channels. Your colleague now has to dig through the file, looking for the Read More
DAQ Starter Kit Helps Win Science Fair Competition
Data Acquisition > Start Kits DATAQ Instruments makes data acquisition hardware (usually a DAQ starter kit) and software donations from time to time to young people who demonstrate the need for a particular measurement that we can satisfy. Examples are measurements in school projects, science fairs, and even Ph.D theses. We recently learned that two Read More
Discontinued Support for Windows XP
Data Acquisition > Software > WinDaq As you may have heard, Microsoft has discontinued support for Windows XP, effective April 8th, 2014. After a 12-year run, Microsoft will no longer release updates or security patches for the widely embraced operating system. Consequently, DATAQ Instruments will also end support for Windows XP. While we will continue Read More
Intelligent Oversampling Enhances Data Acquisition
Data Acquisition > Software > WinDaq Editor’s note: Watch our YouTube videos for in-depth Intelligent Oversampling demonstrations. Intelligent Oversampling pays dividends in so many applications, especially in terms of noise reduction, that it’s difficult to think of an application that wouldn’t benefit. Did you ever wish you could have your cake, and eat it too? In Read More
Medical Research and WinDaq
Data Acquisition > Software > WinDaq Medical research applications can be very demanding on PC-based instrumentation. The problem is the range and quantity of the signals measured. Consider those of a typical cardiovascular application: Left ventricular pressure Arterial pressure Aortic blood flow Electrocardiogram Taken individually, any one of these signals does not present a particular Read More
Medical Research using WinDaq
Data Acquisition > Software > WinDaq Data acquisition hardware and software offer unique waveform storage and analysis features particularly useful for medical research applications. WinDaq in tandem with Advanced CODAS analysis software has been applied in a wide range of medical research (MR) applications; a market segment notoriously demanding in both price and performance. An Read More
A Closer Look At The WinDaq Derivative Algorithm
Data Acquisition > Software > WinDaq The derivative is a mathematical tool used to obtain the rate of change from any given function. When the function to be differentiated is expressed as an equation, we would apply the appropriate derivative formula to attain the rate of change in a similar equation format. When the function Read More