Chameleon
An out-of-the-box, intuitive DAQ system with scalability to 1000+ channels.
About Chameleon
Chameleon’s unique architecture provides incredible power and flexibility with an easy-to-use interface. Other DAQ solutions can be overly complex and inflexible – Chameleon provides the same intuitive interface, whether configuring basic or high channel count systems. Expand your system in any direction while using the same user-friendly software tools.
Chameleon offers compatibility with a wide variety of National Instruments controllers and data acquisition modules so you can configure a system to meet your specific application requirements. Have your system up and running in minutes, acquiring static and dynamic signals at multiple sample rates from a variety of sensor types.
Specifications
- Scalability: Up to 1000+ channels
- Signal Types: Voltage, IEPE, strain, bridge-based, thermocouples, RTDs, current, resistance
- Hardware Form Factor: NI PXI and PXI Express, NI CompactDAQ, NI FieldDAQ
- Synchronization: Inter-channel skew as low as 5 ns
- Sampling Rates: From less than 1 S/s up to 2MS/s
- A/D, D/A Conversion: 24-bit with up to 118 dB dynamic range
- Coupling: AC or DC
- External Timing Source: GPS, IEEE 1588, IRIG-B
- Multiple chassis configuration with distributed controllers or MXI interface
- Multiple chassis time synchronization
Key Features
- Simple, intuitive, Out-of-the-Box setup and operation
- Mixed sensor configurations including microphones, accelerometers, bridge sensors, thermocouples, RTD’s, and current sensors
- Single or multiple chassis configurations using MXI, USB, or Ethernet with cross chassis time synchronization
- Data visualization, multiple traces and graphs, with live or pre-recorded data
- Mixed sample rates across modules
- Analog or digital triggering with pre-triggering
- Strain and bridge sensor calibration (offset and gain adjustment)
- Calculated virtual channels with and equation builder with editable on-the-fly while recording
- Channel alarms with visual, audible or digital output indicators
- Analog output with predefined or arbitrary waveforms
- Data logging at a rate less than the sample rate with on-the-fly logging rate update
- Automatic re-triggering for repeated measurements with incremental data file naming
- Data export to popular file formats for post test analysis
- External control of Chameleon using VI Server or ActiveX for easy integration with third party programs
- Scripted measurements with the option to run on power-up