NI-6602 driver questions

Hello all-

  I have a very specific use (and need) for the NI-6602 board, so I
decided to take a stab at making my own driver using the register level
document from NI.  

  I can do some basic setup and testing with the board via registers,
but what I really want is to have an external gate cause a hardware
latch (no problem), and then generate an interrupt so I can handle the
value latched to the HW register.  The interrupt part I get stuck on.

  It seems that either the register guide is incomplete, or (more
likely) I just don't understand how to set up the card.  Installing an
interrupt on the card IRQ doesn't fail in the driver; it is just never
invoked.

  I am guessing that the MITE chip on the board must be programmed to
relay the interrupt from the NI-TIO to the PCI bus, but NI doesn't seem
to give any information about that in the manual, nor have i been able
to find any related documents anywhere. The tech support there let me
know that register level programming isnt supported.

  I would be interested in using Comedi to do more work on the driver,
but can anyone tell me where I could find any useful code or documents
on this?  Will any of the NI drivers used by Comedi resemble this
board?  
 
Thanks for any help you can give...

-Rob Russell

Received on 2002-08-15Z16:26:59