Complete packages for dynamic measurements with 8 or 16 channels and sampling rates up to 500 kS/s per channel

Update HBM approved GEN DAQ hardware peripherals. For example allowing new types of (solid state) drives.

Date: 07/2022  |  Version: 8.28.22200  |  Size: 5 MB

Update HBM approved GEN DAQ hardware peripherals. For example allowing new types of (solid state) drives.

Date: 07/2022  |  Version: 8.30.22203  |  Size: 5 MB

Installer of the RPC COM wrapper and RPC documentation

Date: 07/2022  |  Version: 8.30  |  Size: 7 MB

Perception 8.28

This is an minor release of Perception mainly improving stability, fixing known problems and adding minor new features.

This is not shipped out with the hardware but only available via web download.

Details about fixed issues and new features can be found in the release notes.

Note: Perception includes the instruments firmware for GEN DAQ systems. So there is no separate firmware available for GEN DAQ systems.

When you connect to hardware using a new version of Perception, the firmware in the hardware will be upgraded accordingly to the same release level.

Date: 07/2022  |  Version: 8.28.22200  |  Size: 570 MB
Related Documents: Release Notes

Perception 8.30

This is a major release of Perception: We strongly recommend to update all Perception 8.22 installations to Perception 8.30, due to important bug fixes.

Note : Before you can upgrade to Perception 8.30, you must upgrade to Perception 8.28 first!

This step is required due to changes to the update mechanism

Harmonic Analysis

Functionality has been added to calculate and display harmonic information according to the IEC 61000-4-7 standard. This standard specifies how harmonics must be calculated for signals with a 50Hz or 60Hz fundamental frequency which typically appear in power grid and power line applications. This new functionality contains the following parts. A new RTFDB function is now available called HarmonicsIEC61000 which calculates the spectrum of a signal following IEC 61000-4-7. The resulting harmonics can be made visible in a new Harmonic Analysis Display in Perception, both in graphical and tabular form. Harmonic Analysis is also fully integrated in the ePower suite as an optional analysis where it comes with several ready-to-use grid application setups. The Quick Start Guide for this new functionality is part of the documentation that comes with the installation and is also available from the Perception website.

Measurement Uncertainty

Perception Enterprise now contains a dedicated sheet to calculate the Measurement Uncertainty (MU) of DC, AC, and mechanical power values. Given inputs like the measured AC power, the type of acquisition card used, and the type of transducer used, this MU Estimation (Basic) sheet calculates the absolute and relative MU of the measured quantity. If the sheet is not visible, in Perception choose from the menu bar Sheets and then ‘MU Estimation (Basic)’. Once the sheet is loaded, the Quick Start Guide can be found by opening the context menu of the sheet's tab and choosing Quick Start Guide...

EtherCAT Distributed Clock

The Genesis mainframes support EtherCAT Distributed Clock to synchronize the internal clock with the EtherCAT clock.

RTFDB number of channels available for storage

The number of RTFDB channels available has be improved. The number of RTFDB channels available for storage has been increased to the table below.

Mainframe type | Available number of RTFDB channels for storage before | Available number of RTFDB channels for storage, after update

GEN2tB | 256 | 256

GEN3t / GEN3i / GEN3iA | 256 | 300

GEN4tB | 256 | 500

GEN7t / GEN7i / GEN7iA | 256 | 1000

GEN17tA | 256 | 1000

Details about new features and fixed issues can be found in the release notes.

Note : Perception includes the instruments firmware for GEN DAQ systems. So there is no separate firmware available for GEN DAQ systems. When you connect to hardware using a new version of Perception, the firmware in the hardware will be upgraded accordingly to the same release level.

Date: 07/2022  |  Version: 8.30.22203  |  Size: 651 MB
Related Documents: Release Notes