Re: DAQ card for laptops

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, brent ledvina wrote:

> Hello---
>
> I'm trying to find a DAQ card for a laptop that supports the following
> specs:
>
> 32 bit DIO and a maximum throughput of ~1.5MB/sec
>
> Does the PCMCIA bus support this data rate? (my guess is that is
> doesn't since the National Instruments DAQCard 6533 maxes out at ~740
> kB/sec)

While I can't really be helpful to you with respect to your actual
question, I did want to point out that an NI card maxing out at 740 kB/sec
doesn't prove anything about the limits of PCMCIA.  Some PCI cards max out
at 120kS/s, while others max out at 1.5MS/s.. so a lot of this depends on
the speed of the card's components... but I am not really knowledgable on
PCMCIA so it could be that the NI card was engineered to take full
advantage of that bus...

-Calin

Received on 2002-10-10Z19:08:22