A digital I/O card is a special type of data acquisition card that contains digital inputs (I) and digital outputs (O). The digital I/O on a data acquisition card or board are typically interfaces with standard logic level digital signals.

A digital I/O card (containing and A/D or D/A) may have 4, 8, 16, or 32 lines or channels of digital I/O, and can be in most combinations of input and output channels. However, for more complex applications, a standalone digital I/O card is available with 96 channels of I/O. These special-purpose cards might provide both logic-level and high-current drive outputs (64 mA sink, 15 mA source), compatible with relay and SSR and relay racks.

In addition to a standard multichannel digital I/O card with logic-level and high-current drive outputs, the digital I/O family of products includes a lot more. Included in this family you will find multichannel counter/times (with and without crystal control oscillator), 2-4 channel quadrature encoder boards, 16-channel electromechanical relay boards, and 32-bit interrupt vector input boards.

A digital I/O card is available for most common bus configurations to meet most applications.

Digital I/O Card Logic Levels

Digital input voltage levels for the On-State or Logic Code 1 are typically from 2 to 5 volts. Digital input voltage levels for the Off-State or Logic Code 0 are typically from 0.8 to 0.0 volt.

Digital output voltage levels for the “On-State” or Logic Code “1” is typically from 3 to 5 volts. Digital input (I) voltage levels for the “Off-State” or Logic Code “0” is typically from 0.4 to 0.0 volts.

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