• Size and weight reduction - the single board is thinner than 2 individual boards, and the elimination of the extra PCB and bus connectors significantly reduces the weight. This is extremely valuable for mobile, robotics, and other applications.
• Increased reliability - Elimination of extraneous connectors and bus interface components improves MTBF of the overall system.
• Increased ruggedness - reduction in size, weight, and interconnects drives up resistance to shock and vibration.
• Simplified purchasing and logistics - Your purchasing department only has to buy one product from one vendor, your stockroom saves space, and your assembly effort is reduced.
• Simplified support - compatibility between the two functions (SBC + I/O) is guaranteed, and a single vendor provides all the support, simplifying and improving design-in and support efforts..

Embedded systems usually require some form of interaction with the real world, whether it be measuring temperature, flow, speed, etc., controlling valves or motors, or monitoring user inputs such as switches and analog potentiometers. Diamond's long experience with data acquisition hardware and software results in our having some of the best and most comprehensive data acquisition circuitry in the industry.

Diamond's data acquisition (DAQ) circuits encompass a wide range of features that enable them to be easily adapted to most real-world monitoring and control functions. Our A/D circuits feature single-channel sample and multi-channel scan timing, with programmable-depth FIFOs to support accurate high-speed sampling with no loss of data. The input circuit bandwidth supports the full aggregate sample rate in multi-channel mode as well as single-channel mode for better accuracy. Both A/D and D/A circuits feature auto-calibration that lets you calibrate the circuit anytime in seconds. Each input / output range, and on some boards each individual channel, has its own individual calibration settings. This provides best in class performance and delivers consistent, accurate measurements over the life of your system.

The digital I/O circuits include useful features like programmable or jumper-selectable pull-up/down resistors, buffers for higher output drive and better protection, interrupt on change of state, programmable counter/timers, and pulse-width modulator circuits. Since all our DAQ circuits are FPGA-based, custom logic can be implemented as well.

All Diamond’s integrated an add-on board DAQ circuits are supported by our free Universal Driver programming library that includes ready-to-run demo programs with both source code and executables, to speed up application development. A GUI-based app provides instant operation to test and verify the DAQ and system operation and can be used for quick prototyping as well as system debugging.