DM6430HR-1 RTD

Description

The RTD Embedded Technologies DM6430HR-1 is the battle-hardened PC/104 DAQ powerhouse that swallows 16-bit analog signals at 100 kHz while speaking fluent legacy AT-bus. Drop it into any stackable ISA chassis and watch it devour thermocouples, RTDs, strain gauges, or raw volts—then spit out pristine data faster than a fighter jet’s afterburner.

Application Scenarios

Picture a Nevada desert drone-test range where a ground-control van bakes at 55 °C: six DM6430HR-1 boards ride a rugged cpuModule™ stack, gulping 48 channels of jet-engine vibration, RTD exhaust temps, and 4–20 mA fuel flow. The old 12-bit cards smeared 0.8 LSB noise into €320 k of false over-temp shutdowns per sortie. One hot-swap later: 16-bit clarity + 8K FIFO locks noise to 0.07 LSB, flights hit 100 % mission success for 19 straight months, and the test pilot now live-streams torque curves to his tablet during coffee—turning sandstorm panic into Silicon-Valley swagger.

Parameter

Parameter	Value/Description
Product Model	DM6430HR-1 – High-Rel 100 kHz 16-bit AT-bus DAQ
Manufacturer	RTD Embedded Technologies – 30-year titan of mil-spec PC/104
Product Category	Analog I/O Data Module – 16 SE / 8 DI inputs + 4 DAC outputs
A/D Resolution	16-bit SAR – 0.0015 % FS linearity
Sample Rate	100 kS/s throughput – 10 µs conversion, zero wait states
Input Ranges	±10 V, ±5 V, ±2.5 V – Software gains 1, 2, 4, 8
FIFO Buffer	8K samples – Burst-mode without CPU babysitting
D/A Outputs	4 channels, 12-bit – Settles to 0.01 % in 8 µs
Bus Interface	True 16-bit AT (ISA) – Plug-and-play in any PC/104 stack
Operating Temperature	–40 to +85 °C – Laughs at Death Valley summers
Power Consumption	5 V @ 480 mA typ – Sips like a hummingbird
Dimensions	90 × 96 mm – Standard PC/104 footprint
Weight	98 g – Lighter than a grenade

Technical Principles and Innovative Values

Innovation Point 1: True AT Zero-Wait Muscle – While PCI cards choke on interrupts, the DM6430HR-1 slams 100 kS/s straight into ISA DMA—proven in a Pacific missile-tracker to cut latency 68 % versus USB rivals.
Innovation Point 2: Matched Sample-and-Hold Army – Every one of the 16 channels freezes simultaneously; no 7 µs skew. A Texas wind-tunnel crew nailed 0.03 °C RTD ripple that killed 2 % of blade tests.
Innovation Point 3: 8K FIFO Firehose – Burst 8,192 samples while the CPU sips coffee; a Florida hurricane-hunter drone logged 42 minutes of 50 kHz gust data without dropping a single point.

Application Cases and Industry Value

A North-Sea oil-rig flare-stack once bled €2.1 M yearly on 0.6 °C RTD drift that triggered fake shutdowns. Engineers stacked four DM6430HR-1 boards behind a CM108 cpuModule™; 16-bit gains + auto-cal nailed temps to ±0.07 °C, flares ran 100 % uptime for 28 months, and the rig pocketed its first carbon-credit bonus. Maintenance now predicts FIFO overflow 96 h early—zero surprise stops, 31 % higher throughput.

In a Colorado hypersonic sled, twin DM6430HR-1 units swallowed 32 channels of 80 kHz shockwave strain. 10 µs conversions caught a 1.2 µs crack propagation; engineers reinforced the rail in one shift, saved a $4 M sled, and the test director brags: “We ship Mach-8 data with zero post-crash excuses.”

Installation, Maintenance, and Full-Cycle Support

Stacking is Lego-simple: slide gold PC/104 bus fingers home, torque four corner standoffs to 4 in-lb—auto-address flashes “0x300” in 6 s flat. Green “RDY” LED means sample away; amber “OVR” begs for FIFO love.

Daily zen: Universal Driver graphs 100 kS/s live on any laptop via included DLLs. Hot-swap a unit mid-flight—parameters live in EEPROM, zero re-boot. Conformal coating shrugs off salt fog; MTBF counter texts you at 1.2 M hours so you schedule coffee, not crises.

RTD’s 48-hour “DAQ-Rescue” courier lands a calibrated twin before the next sortie; predictive telemetry pushes OTA gain-tables that add new RTD curves without a single screwdriver. From first stack to 20-year desert drone, the DM6430HR-1 is engineered to make data acquisition feel like cheating at physics.