Re: NI6601/6602 drivers

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, J.P. Mellor wrote:

> Jonathan C Erickson writes:
>  >
>  > I have NI PCI board 6071E, and have DAQ (counter/timer) 6601/6602.
>  > I recently installed comedi and comedilib for the 6071E.  I suspect
>  > there are some drivers I need for the 6601/6602.  Does anyone know
>  > where to get them, or if I even need them?
>
> I've been working on a driver for the 6601/6602.  It's not fully
> functional yet, but at least some things work.  I've tested digital
> in, digital out, counters in various modes including quadrature
> (except quadrature x2 and x4).  There's a bug in the MITE
> initialization that I haven't yet tracked down that is preventing
> quadrature x2 and x4 from working properly.  I haven't done anything
> with the timers yet.  There isn't much of an api yet -- you specify
> offsets and values to configure the card.  I'd be happy to share what
> I've got so far.
>
Hello,

i'm working with the 6602 too. I first considered to use comide too.

Well finely, there i a so called

NI Measurement Hardware Driver Development Kit

check:
http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/bycode/exyv4w?opendocument&lang=en&node=seminar_US

it works pretty well, even the X4 Encoder.

see also

http://exchange.ni.com/servlet/ProcessRequest?RHIVEID=101&RPAGEID=8&RFORMNUMBER=3&RHIDETAG=TRUE&UCATEGORY_0=_321&UCATEGORY_S=0

for the problems i had with the interupts.

Hope that helps

Mario

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Received on 2003-01-28Z02:46:43