This article describes an extensible transputer-based data acquisition
system mounted on a PC card format. Comparisons of this large card fo
rmat are made with the transputer module standard (TRAM) formats with
reference to their application in engineering systems, in particular f
or real-time control, instrumentation and signal processing. Two examp
les of the use of a multi-processor transputer system are given: the s
imulation of a broad loom weaving machine for production testing of el
ectronic jacquards, and as a high performance vision system.