A/D and D/A Boards for Linux? 11
Quadropleen+ asks: "I work in a lab where we do real time control of industrial hardware. To this point, we've been using several old A/D and D/A boards to control these processes under DOS, due to the anti-real time properties of Windows. Well, our cards are beginning to fail, and we're looking for replacements. I've been trying to get my advisor to move to Linux, and I see this as a great opportunity to leverage a better OS onto our machines. Does anyone have suggestions/experience with using A/D & D/A boards with Linux? What are the best and worst ones out there?"
Re:National Instruments (Score:1)
e-mail them and request more support.
Re:National Instruments (Score:1)
Re:National Instruments (Score:1)
I'm a Labview user for 6 years now and since 2 years I also use labview for Linux.
Another option is the comedi project (http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi/).
I'm sure that if you want to set up things in a fast and easy way, your best choice will be the National Instruments stuff.
Axiom Data Acquisition Boards (Score:5, Informative)
A quick glance through their site www.axiomtek.com [axiomtek.com], I came across a 16 channel board that supports "Red Hat Linux kernel version 2.2.X - AX509SP [axiomtek.com.tw].
Might want to give these guys a look...
There Are Many Options (Score:1)
One good site for drivers is the Linux Lab Project. There are links to drivers for many different boards.
Another good project is the Comedi project, which maintains drivers for quite a few cards, and supports the use of RTLinux, RTAI, and card access from kernel modules.
My current favorite is the National Instruments E series boards. The drivers in the Comedi project are quite good, and the cards have an excellent set of features.
Elk is good... (Score:1)
If you need realtime control... (Score:2)
Real time control (Score:1)