2/18/02 - PTrAc Product Announcement Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, February 18, 2002 - OPTIMUM Power Technology announces PTrAc: a new product for the measurement and analysis of high-speed signals from IC engines. PTrAc combines the flexibility of high-quality PC-based data acquisition with powerful user-friendly software. Using many of the latest ideas from Queen's University Belfast and OPTIMUM, PTrAc is designed to meet the future demands of automotive engineers with both acquisition and analysis capabilities in one powerful system using PC technology to keep costs to a minimum.   Intelligent software controlled hardware filters with expert system control   Non-linear calibration of transducers   TDC alignment algorithms   Automatic logging of test parameter data such as engine speed and BMEP   Time-stamping of crank angle events to 0.05µs accuracy   Knock Analysis   Add custom, external heat release models