Flexible PC Measurement System Based in Extensible Mark-Up Language Files

Abstract- For the development of advanced measurement algorithms, it is common to handle large organized data resulting from multiple acquisitions for post processing. Most of the times the saved measured data does not include relevant information like the context in which the data was acquired, if there is other related data to the acquisitions and not even the hardware involved. Some systems solve this problem by creating a batch of files containing the information but reducing the test data portability, compression and consistency. This paper describes a PC based acquisition, archive and post-processing system that works as a generic mainframe for measurement tests performed with data acquisition devices. This system allows structuring several acquisition tasks, transmitting the resulting files through web, save memory space and is scalable for computer languages that process Extensible Mark-up Language (XML) files. I