The Art of Test System Development.

The article offers four diverse data acquisition (DAQ) projects as examples of optimum solutions to complex test and measurement applications. Each system employs a wide range of measurements and satisfies several constraints. The U.S. Department of Energy has established a number of high-technology projects as part of an initiative to improve the capacity and reliability of the country's electricity grid including the development of a 138-kV Saturable Reactor type of fault current limiter (FCL) by SC Power Systems. C&H Technologies has developed an Aperture ADC on an M Module for use on a VXI carrier in the VXI test system of the customer experiencing long analysis time on multiple channels of digitized analog data.