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The document outlines the concepts of data storage, transmission, and acquisition, specifically in the context of multimedia data. It details the components involved in data acquisition systems, including hardware and software, and emphasizes the importance of sampling and digitizing multimedia signals. Additionally, it discusses various DAQ hardware and software tools used for building data acquisition systems.

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DAQ Slides

The document outlines the concepts of data storage, transmission, and acquisition, specifically in the context of multimedia data. It details the components involved in data acquisition systems, including hardware and software, and emphasizes the importance of sampling and digitizing multimedia signals. Additionally, it discusses various DAQ hardware and software tools used for building data acquisition systems.

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Multimedia Storage

Transmission and Acquisition


Techniques
Outline

 Data Storage
 Data Transmission
 Data Acquisition
 Multimedia data acquisition
 Data Acquisition Hardware and Software
Definitions
Data Storage
 Data need storage space before, during or after
processing in terms of temporary or permanent
storage.

Data transmission
 After or during processing, data may need to be
transmitted between different devices on the same
system/machine or at a distant through the internet
or intranet
Definitions
Data acquisition
 Data acquisition is the process of sampling signals that
measure real world physical conditions and converting the
resulting samples into digital numeric values that can be
manipulated by a computer. The components of data
acquisition systems include:
 Sensors, to convert physical parameters to electrical signals.
 Signal conditioning circuitry, to convert sensor signals into a form that
can be converted to digital values.
 Analog-to-digital converters, to convert conditioned sensor signals to
digital values.
Multimedia Data Acquisition
 For multimedia data analysis, we need to store the multimedia
data and process it. During processing, multimedia data may need
to be transmitted through networks or between devices.
 Acquisition is directly related to both storage and transmission
because whatever is acquired is directed to either storage or
transmission.

 The examples of multimedia data sources are:


 audio sources (e.g. microphones)
 image sources (e.g. Camera)
 These produce continuous time analogy signals (e.g. output voltages)
 In order to store audio or video data into a computer, we must sample
and digitize the data.
Source:
Enrique Z.L., 2019
Data Acquisitision
Hardware and Software
DAQ hardware

 DAQ hardware is what usually interfaces between the signal


and a PC.
 It could be in the form of modules that can be connected to
the computer's ports (parallel, serial, USB, etc.) or cards
connected to slots (S-100 bus, PCI, PCI-E, etc.) in the
motherboard.
 Usually the space on the back of a PCI card is too small for
all the connections needed, so an external breakout box is
required.
 The cable between this box and the PC can be expensive
due to the many wires, and the required shielding.
DAQ hardware

 DAQ cards often contain multiple components (multiplexer,


ADC, DAC, TTL-IO, high speed timers, RAM).
 These are accessible via a bus by a microcontroller, which
can run small programs.
 A controller is more flexible than a hard wired logic, yet
cheaper than a CPU so that it is permissible to block it with
simple polling loops.
DAQ device drivers

 DAQ device drivers are needed in order for the DAQ


hardware to work with a PC.

 The device driver performs low-level register writes


and reads on the hardware, while exposing API for
developing user applications in a variety of
programs.
Input devices

Examples of input devices in the DAQ system are:

 3D scanner

 Analog-to-digital converter

 Time-to-digital converter
Other Hardware

 Computer Automated Measurement and Control


(CAMAC)
 Industrial Ethernet
 Industrial USB
 LAN eXtensions for Instrumentation
 PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation
 etc
DAQ software

 DAQ software tools used for building large-scale


data acquisition systems include Experimental
Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS).

 Other programming environments that are used to


build DAQ applications include,Visual C++, Visual
Basic, LabVIEW, and MATLAB etc

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