"It is well known that during the early phases of a complex project, the control law requirements are seldom well defined. This lack of certainty can be very expensive in the overall product development life cycle. The Q8 data acquisition cards were acquired from Quanser exactly for this reason to reduce the overall development life cycle cost. We used the Q8 cards in a rapid prototyping environment to solidify our control law concepts and define a coherent set of derived control law requirements and thereby the subsequent development cost were substantially reduced."
- Dr. Haik Biglari, Director of Electronics and Controls, Fairchild Controls Corp
Q8 Hardware in the Loop (H.I.L.) Board
The Q8 is an innovative H.I.L. control board with an extensive range of input and output support . A wide variety of devices with analog and digital sensors as well as quadrature encoders are easily connected to the Q8. This single-board solution is ideal for use in control systems and complex measurement applications.
Quanser's Q8 is supported by The MathWorks xPC Target, LabVIEW RTX and RT-LAB.
No other board offers this combination of features and performance! Ideal for control systems & measurement of complex systems.
High Resolution - 14-bit inputs
Simultaneous sampling of A/D & encoder inputs
Extensive I/O: 8 each of A/D, D/A, encoder & 32 DIO on the same board
Integrated with MATLAB/Simulink/RTW via Quanser WinCon
PWM outputs on-board
This single board integration enables you to turn your PC into a powerful
rapid control prototyping workstation. Designed by Control Engineers for Control Engineers the Q8 provides:
Key Features
8 x 14-bit programmable analog inputs
8x 12-bit D/A voltage outputs
8 quadrature encoder inputs
32 programmable digital I/O channels
Simultaneous sampling of both analog and encoder sections
2x 32-bit dedicated counter/timers
8x 24-bit reconfigurable encoder counter/timers
2x on-board PWM outputs
32-bit, 33 MHz PCI bus interface
Supports Quanser real-time control software WinCon (2000/XP)
