Monitoring software

Dasytec, a subsidiary of National Instruments, has announced DasyLab 8, the latest version of the company's Windows-based graphical data acquisition software.

Version 8 features a quick start guide, interactive tutorial and 120 examples to help engineers accelerate set-up and development of data acquisition, process monitoring, control, data display and data analysis applications.

In addition to configuring their applications, engineers now can customise the software user interface for instant access to the menu functions they use most often. The software features eight user-defined buttons on the front panel for one-click access to any function, and engineers can set user interface module defaults specific to their hardware.

Engineers can also assign DasyLab functions to their keyboards with new customisable hot keys.

The package includes three new and 12 updated multi-function data acquisition drivers that support varying sampling rates for each device, a controller area network logger module for storing all or selected CAN telegrams and a polar plot module with which engineers can create circular plots using polar co-ordinates and x and y co-ordinates.