Bus-powered · NI-DAQmx compatible
Four tiers, twenty-two models — from a 12-bit 8-channel teaching module to 24-bit IEPE dynamic signal analysers and 1.25 MS/s M-series modules with up to 80 inputs. NI-DAQmx compatible drivers mean your LabVIEW, Python and C# code runs unchanged.
In stock · Ships in 1–3 business days · 2-year warranty
Product line
Pick a tier by channel count and signal speed — the driver, API and wiring habits carry over across the whole range.
Where teaching labs, student projects and first bench setups start. Analog and digital modules side by side — eight to twenty-four lines, powered entirely from the USB port, at the lowest cost per station in the range.
The 6009 generation, replaced by something better: true 16-bit resolution, 20 to 100 kS/s depending on the model you pick, a fixed ±10 V front end, and a 96-line digital module for when the job is switching rather than measuring.
For when 100 kS/s runs out. Sixteen to thirty-two inputs at 250 kS/s, or 400 kS/s on the 6212 and 6216, with two 16-bit outputs, up to 32 digital lines and 60 V channel-to-ground isolation on the 6215, 6216 and 6218 — enough to sit on a machine frame without dragging the noise in.
The top of the range. M-series modules sampling to 1.25 MS/s with as many as 80 analog inputs and 48 digital lines, alongside 24-bit IEPE instruments with built-in signal conditioning for accelerometers and microphones.
Why these modules
The hardware is only half the story. What keeps these modules on the bench is everything around them.
The same driver API, the same LabVIEW VIs and the same Python nidaqmx calls. Existing code and test sequences keep running without a rewrite.
Every model runs from the USB port alone. Nothing extra to mount in a cabinet, nothing extra to fail.
Each unit is verified against a traceable reference and ships with its own calibration certificate.
Working examples for LabVIEW, Python, C/C++, C#/.NET and MATLAB — plus Chinese-language wiring notes.
Common part numbers ship from stock in 1–3 business days. Volume pricing from ten units.
Two years parts and labour, with repair or advance replacement handled locally.
Count your channels, estimate your fastest signal, then check whether you need analog output or IEPE conditioning.
8 channels covers most teaching and bench work. 16 covers a typical machine. 32 and up is for full test rigs.
Temperature and strain are slow. Vibration and acoustic work starts at 50 kS/s and goes far higher.
Analog output for control loops, IEPE for accelerometers and microphones, isolation for noisy plant floors.
Applications
The same four tiers show up in teaching labs, on vehicle test tracks and on factory floors.
DC · slow signals · digital
A teaching lab buys thirty of the same module, which makes cost per station and a simple wiring diagram the only two things that matter.
Fast transients · CAN-adjacent sensors
Vehicle work means long cables, ground offsets and signals that change in microseconds. Isolation and sample rate are the two specifications that decide whether the data is usable.
IEPE accelerometers · 24-bit
Bearing defects show up as small, high-frequency components buried under a large low-frequency signal. That is a dynamic range problem before it is a bandwidth problem.
High voltage · fast switching
Inverter output, battery charge curves and photovoltaic I-V sweeps all need voltage and current on one time base. The 62xx inputs are multiplexed rather than simultaneous, but at 250 kS/s to 1.25 MS/s they interleave fast enough to hold the two within a few microseconds. Where that skew is too much, the USB-4431 and USB-4432 carry a converter per channel.
Mixed sensor arrays
Research rigs grow. The module that survives is the one with enough spare channels that you do not have to rewrite the acquisition code halfway through a project.
Digital I/O · pass/fail
End-of-line testing is mostly digital I/O with a few analog measurements attached. What matters is that it runs unattended for months.
Send us your channel count, signal type and bandwidth. We will point you at the right model and quote it the same day.
