Connectivity

The RT3000 family products have been connected to a wide variety of Data Acquisition hardware and software without difficulty. The use of the CAN bus makes it particularly simple to connect to acquisition systems that have CAN bus inputs. Some of our customers acquire the NCOM data directly, using our C code drivers, either via RS232 or via Ethernet. The output from the Post-Processing software is in ASCII text format and can be readily loaded in to many software packages without problems. There is even an analogue interface, should you need it.

	Enginuity Enginuity is our own, in-house software for acquiring data from the RT3000 family. Enginuity is not designed to be as powerful as other, generic data acquisition software packages. It can display some of the outputs. It can save files in ASCII text and in the NCOM binary format. Enginuity is provided free of charge. Enginuity-Lite Enginuity-Lite is a version of Enginuity that runs on Pocket PCs, such as the iPAQ. This provides a powerful, in car display at a very low cost. Enginuity-Lite is provided free of charge.
	MicroLAB MicroLAB and MicroGraph from Ceaser Datensysteme can acquire the data from the RT3000 family products using CAN cards or directly from Ethernet. MicroLAB accepts the CAN DBC files provided. MicroGraph displays captured data post-mission, including video and mapping.
	National Instruments. National Instruments has several CAN cards that can be used to acquire the signals from the RT3000 family products. Some customers have compiled our C code drivers and used them to acquire data over Ethernet or over RS232 Diadem Diadem is now owned by National Instruments. WinLAB is replacing it for real-time acquisition. However, many customers still use Diadem. It accepts the CAN DBC files provided.
	Somat Using the CAN bus we have customers who have interfaced to the Somat eDAQ acquisition systems. The eDAQ software accepts the CAN DBC files from the RT3000.
	Ipetronik Many of our customers already have Ipetronik data acquisition systems. The RT3000 family can be connected using the SIM-SER modules. It is best to have a 60-channel option because of the large number of measurements. It is also best to minimise the timing uncertainty setting the SIM-SER to sample at 500Hz or more; this applies to most CAN based systems. The Ipetronik software readily accepts the RT3000 family's CAN DBC files. Argus Argus is being promoted by Ipetronik and replaces Diadem as the main software used with Ipetronik systems. Argus acquires data via CAN and readily accepts the CAN DBC files provided.
	TurboLAB TurboLAB from Corrsys-Datron is another data acquisition package, based around CAN bus input. TurboLAB accepts the CAN DBC files provided. TurboLAB can be run on a stand-alone PC or on the uEEP-11 Data Acquisition System.
	MathCAD At Oxford Technical Solutions we use MathCAD for viewing data recorded by the RT3000 family. MathCAD reads text files saved by Enginuity and can be brought up immediately following a test. It is a low-cost and reliable graphing package that anyone can learn in minutes.
	MatLAB MatLAB is a universal piece of software used by professional engineers of many backgrounds. It is more expensive than MathCAD, but more powerful. The text outputs from the RT3000 family can easily be loaded in to MatLAB
	Excel For short sections of data Excel can be used. Excel can read the CSV outputs from Enginuity directly. Many people use Excel already and little training is required. Excel can only graph 32000 data points, and only load 65000 data points, so working with data sets longer than 5 minutes can become a problem.

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