Microcomputer-controlled communication network for Sandia National Laboratories' environmental test chambers
Abstract
A microcomputer-controlled communication system that links together in a network four data-acquisition computers and four low-level signal scanner/amplifiers is described. The scanner/amplifiers monitor transducers that are connected to specimens within environmental test chambers located in the high-bay area of Sandia's Building 860. The microcomputer hardware and its controlling program are described.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- August 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981STIN...8211355B
- Keywords:
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- Communication Networks;
- Interprocessor Communication;
- Microcomputers;
- Amplifiers;
- Computer Networks;
- Computer Programs;
- Data Acquisition;
- Scanners;
- Test Chambers;
- Communications and Radar