Software is Platform for Engine, Vibration Test

April 14th, 2008

Concurrent’s SIGnal Workbench is a dynamic data acquisition and monitoring system for rotational machinery, structural, and other vibration applications. The product provides everything needed for high-cycle fatigue testing: a real-time computer system, data acquisition input cards, programmable signal conditioning and powerful graphical test software for data acquisition control, data management, display and post-test analysis.

SIGnal Workbench includes SignalBoss software, which is a comprehensive graphical application suite offering step-by-step instruction throughout the testing process. SignalBoss requires minimal training and allows users to quickly begin productive vibration testing and data monitoring. All software set-up and operation is via point-and-click GUI. Test engineers can view any type of time or frequency domain plot in real-time while recording all data digitally. Data produced can include digital raw time and frequency domain with time statistics as well as compressed frequency domain data files.

SIGnal Workbench includes a Concurrent real-time computer platform custom-configured to test application requirements. Each system features one or more 32-channel, 24-bit, Sigma-Delta analog input boards supporting a rate of 200 kilosamples per second per channel. Other simultaneous sampling analog input cards are also available.

SIGnal Workbench also offers optional four-channel signal conditioning modules that provide programmable transducer interface circuitry. Each channel features a configurable current/voltage output source and a fault-protected programmable gain amplifier.

Concurrent SIGnal Workbench systems run Concurrent’s RedHawk Linux real-time operating system. RedHawk provides the fully-deterministic, guaranteed performance needed in high-performance, time-critical test applications. Each channel provides a programmable current/voltage output source and a fault-protected programmable gain amplifier.

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