1.1. OverviewΒΆ

The APEX Data System suite is a family of interactive applications for high speed and high channel count data acquisition and analysis tasks. These applications are suitable for general purpose data acquisition projects, but they also contain specialized features for rotating machinery testing. Members of the suite include:

  • a data acquisition component, the APEX Data System (APEX DS),
  • a data replay and visualization component, the APEX Data Viewer (APEX DV),
  • a data monitoring user interface client, the APEX Data Remote (APEX DR),
  • and various additional utilities.

The purpose of this Chapter is to give an overview of the APEX DS architecture and to introduce the terms that will be used throughout this Manual.