Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) Based Data Acquisition Card

Abstract

This paper was addressed to the problem of producing an inexpensive local counterpart of a Data Acquisition Card that would serve as an interface between the computer and the harduware prototype for real time hardware in-the-loop simulation. The project was developed following two stages: the experimental stage and prototype stage. The C language was used in testing and evaluating the device. The results of the evaluation showed that the device could sample around 1.5 kilo samples per second with greater accuracy if signals are samples at 100Hz or lower. The device yields a good noise performance. The overall cost of the project was around Php 5000.00.