From Dewesoft IOLITE EtherCAT to Arduino openDAQ: Where the Measurement Lab Began
How an IOLITE EtherCAT gateway experiment started FermiLabs’ Arduino and Dewesoft measurement work, and why openDAQ became the shared signal model.
Data acquisition, measurement systems and signal integrity at FermiLabs. Explore channel identity, sampling and publication rates, units, timestamps, reference domains, buffering, gaps, quality, recording, replay, transport protocols and traceable experiments. DAQ articles explain how a measurement chain is validated from its source to its consumers, and distinguish synthetic/reference signals from calibrated physical measurements.

How an IOLITE EtherCAT gateway experiment started FermiLabs’ Arduino and Dewesoft measurement work, and why openDAQ became the shared signal model.

The evolution of EFBus from robot-oriented MCU/Linux transport to a reusable typed acquisition boundary, without conflating EFBus with openDAQ Native.

An evidence-led openDAQ 3.40.3 installation and Native reference-device workflow on Linux ARM64, with exact host and lifecycle qualification.

A reproducible openDAQ 3.40.3/ LT 4.0.3 engineering comparison of channel values and reference-domain metadata across transport boundaries.

How SpeedCircuits combines browser-local ngspice circuit studies with evidence-aware DAQ concepts, preparing a path from simulation to reference and later physical measurement.

A controlled software workflow that records synthetic signals through the actual openDAQ Native SDK and compares them through the FRC Studio reference importer.

How the Arduino GIGA R1 became an eight-channel openDAQ Streaming LT device, with July 2026 hardware measurements and DewesoftM validation.