Data Translation, or DT ( ) is a manufacturer of USB and PCI data acquisition hardware, accompanying software, and imaging products. The company's main customers are OEM's, Engineers, and Scientists, involved in applications related to test and measurement, sound and vibration, and imaging. Data Translations main software offering for data acquisition is Measure Foundry; A graphical programming environment which provides the flexibility of a programming language in a graphical user environment.

History

Data Translation, founded in 1973 and headquartered in Marlboro, Mass., is a leading supplier of data acquisition software and hardware to the test and measurement market. With expertise in the design of high-accuracy, high-quality analog hardware and application software, the Company partners with end users and OEMs alike to help them achieve their test and measurement goals. With over thirty years of experience, customers have come to rely on Data Translation because of its world-class software, design proficiency, high-quality manufacturing, and respected customer service. Data Translation has a worldwide presence, with distribution in more then 40 countries and subsidiaries in Germany and the U.K.

Thirty years of innovation began with a data acquisition module that converted real-world analog data to digital information that could be processed by a computer. Several years later, Data Translation engineers developed an industry breakthrough: the first multifunction data acquisition board that was eventually ported to the PC. Today, the Company continues its dominance in the hardware arena with the introduction of new technology for USB, ranging from low-cost economical devices to high performance modules combining high speed and high accuracy with the power and convenience of USB. Even greater barriers were broken with the introduction of the world's fastest simultaneous USB data acquisition device with throughput rates up to 2.0MHz per channel.

In 2001, the Company launched its own application software package, Measure Foundry. This powerful test and measurement software is a rapid application development environment that allows anyone to easily and quickly create measurement applications without programming. Using a drag and drop graphical interface, combined with property pages, the user can create sophisticated measurement solutions in a fraction of the time needed with previous packages.

The emergence of synthetic instruments and the new LXI-standard to support them spotlights the advanced architecture used to create Measure Foundry. This opens up a whole new market for aspect-oriented programming based packages. Measure Foundry's patent-pending design is poised to become "The Gold Standard for Synthetic Instruments". The promise of synthetic instruments is the ability to change the capability of an instrument through software. Beyond virtual instruments, which represent a specific device, synthetic instruments allow a generic device to be used as the instrument needed. Measure Foundry for Synthetic Instruments provides a system solution for all instrument classes supported by industry standards.