Data acquisition systems USB-AD, USB-PIO: Where is the measurement device? - An absolutely brilliant and unique idea has been launched by BMC Messsysteme GmbH (bmcm), longtime manufacturer for innovative measurement technology "made in Germany". The analog USB measuring system USB-AD and the digital I/O interface USB-PIO have been compressed extremely and integrated into a Sub-D connector housing. What some might consider as an incomplete delivery is the real clou: Customers, who order a USB device at bmcm for analog or digital measurement data acquisition, receive a red USB cable with an attached 25- or 37-pole Sub-D connector. That's supposed to be all? No, of course not! A "Software Collection" CD is included as well. Everybody who is not discouraged until now, and connects the USB cable to the PC, will see that into the red plastic housing of the Sub-D connector highly compressed measurement technology has been put: the USB data acquisition system.