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.
>
I would appreciate it if you could put your beta (alpha?) on a website
somewhere. Because also we have such a card and would like to contribute
and test where we can. And the past year or so, four or five other
people have posted their interest in this card on the mailinglist...

Herman

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Received on 2003-01-28Z07:28:06