Data Collection and Testing Tool: SAUDAS
Abstract
PURPOSE: The availability of electronic instrumentation to measure wave height, nearshore currents, and other phenomena has generated a concurrent need for reliable data acquisition systems to acquire, record, and verify the collected data. The Serial Analog Unit Data Acquisition System (SAUDAS) was developed as a real time data acquisition tool for intensive electronic data collection projects in the laboratory and field. BACKGROUND: Hardware and firmware (software that's been embedded or programmed into hardware) comprise the Serial Analog Unit (SAU). Software program SAUDAS was designed to capture data originating from the SAU. The SAUDAS system (Diagram 1, SAU Technical Reference Manual, 1988) has been used in field and laboratory, collecting data from a wide variety of instrumentation, such as Marsh McBirney electromagnetic (EM) current sensors, Parescientific pressure gages, optical back scanners, accelerometers, strain gages, and other analog data gathering devices. The software was first developed for use with PC-DOS. The design has been modified for the VAX/VMS operating system, making the software usable on the DEC family of computers, including the 700 series and Micro VAXes.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA609360
Entities
Organizations
- Coastal Engineering Research Center