Patent ID: 7991535

Claim:
A data acquisition system, comprising: components communicatively connected to form a data acquisition system, said components comprising: at least one apparatus for obtaining exhaust parameters of an engine, at least one wiring harness for obtaining real-time performance parameters of the engine, at least one data acquisition server (DAS) detachably attachable to a selected mounting location, said DAS electronically coupled and detachably attachable to said apparatus for obtaining exhaust parameters and to said wiring harness, said wiring harness capable of identifying the engine to said DAS, and a fiber optic cable communicatively connecting said DAS and said means for collecting engine exhaust parameters, said components are communicatively connected to a SPI BUS having a master device and multiple SPI slave devices, said SPI Bus having only a three-signal connection that supports said one master device and several connected slave devices, and said SPI Bus having bus signals chip select and clock out, where said signals chip select and clock out are combined through a logical “AND” function providing for a SPI bus gated clock signal to be active only when the SPI bus master's chip select and clock out signals are active.