BRUEL & KJAER PULSE 3560-B, Technical Documentation Manual

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Chapter 4
Introduction to Hardware
4.1 What is an IDA
e
System?
A Type 3560-B/C/D/E (i.e., Type 3560-B, Type 3560-C, Type 3560-D or Type 3560-E)
system consists of a PC with LAN interface (fixed or wireless), PULSE software, Win-
dows
®
2000/XP or Windows Vista
®
, Microsoft
®
Office and IDA
e
-based data acquisition
front-end hardware.
IDA
e
– Enhanced Intelligent Data Acquisition-based front-end. “Intelligent” refers to the
range of features including support of transducers with standardised built-in transducer data
(TEDS). These give fast and reliable setup and documentation of the entire measurement
chain – from the transducer to the analysis result. The key features of IDA
e
are:
• Input and output channels are fully conditioned for microphones, sound intensity probes,
CCLD transducers and other transducers acting as voltage sources
• Selectable high-pass filters and full overload detection, including out-of-band overload
and indication of incorrect conditioning for the connected transducer
A system can contain more than 200 input channels located in up to ten frames of the same
or different type.