BOHEMIA, NY – May 2023 -- North Atlantic Industries, Inc. (NAI), a leading supplier of embedded computing solutions and power supplies, is proud to announce that its Strain Gauge I/O Services Segment (IOSS) Unit of Conformance (UoC) software has achieved FACE® Technical Standard conformance. This milestone represents NAI’s fifth FACE® conformant UoC and is a significant achievement for the company’s COSA® configurable product line.
The Strain Gauge solution supports four independent, isolated Wheatstone bridge strain gauge channels, making it well suited for applications requiring precise measurement of pressure, weight, or stress transducers.
The COSA® architecture powering NAI’s strain gauge solution combines portable, FACE® conformant software with open hardware standards to ensure scalability, upgradability, and adaptability to emerging technologies. This modular design approach provides a comprehensive solution for aerospace and defense applications, enabling efficient integration of complex electronic systems while reducing development costs.
Together, the strain gauge capability and NAI’s COSA® architecture deliver an advanced and reliable embedded computing solution. The FACE® conformance of the Strain Gauge IOSS UoC software demonstrates NAI’s continued commitment to open architecture initiatives and to delivering cutting-edge solutions that support precision measurement and seamless integration of complex electronic systems.
Module SG1 is NAI’s latest generation Strain Gauge Measurement Module. This intelligent, four-channel module is used on our Multifunction Embedded I/O Boards and Single Board Computers (SBCs). While there are several methods of measuring mechanical strain, the most common is with a strain gauge. The gauge provides electrical resistance that varies in proportion to the amount of strain in the device. The most widely used gauge is the bonded metallic strain gauge. To measure such small changes in resistance, strain gauges are almost always used in a bridge configuration with a voltage excitation source. The general Wheatstone bridge (conventional, 4-arm bridge) consists of four resistive arms with an excitation voltage, Vexc, that is applied across the bridge.
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