- From: Steven Jenkins <steven.jenkins_at_ieee.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 06:56:00 -0800
steve_at_horne.homelinux.net wrote:
> scilab (http://www-rocq.inria.fr/scilab/) is a GPL
> matlab/idl equivalent with solid support; see their web page above.
>
> Scilab includes Scicos; Scicos is to Scilab as Simulink is to Matlab --
> a Labview-like graphical programming interface to the package.
>
> The combination of comedi drivers for control hardware, plus
> scilab/scicos, would make a rather powerful, free replacement for Labview.
>
> Anybody else thinking along these lines?
I don't know much about scilab, but there is a comedi toolbox described
on its "Contributions" page. Here's the README:
COMEDI Toolbox for Scilab
=========================
Data acquisition using COMEDI under scilab.
Currently COMEDI is only available under Linux.
COMEDI (version 0.2)
====================
This version can only be used with the scilab cvs version
This toolbox requires that COMEDI is installed on your Linux machine.
Information about COMEDI can be found at 'http://comedi.org/comedi/'.
The toolbox also requires an '/etc/stork.conf' file that describes the
mapping from abstract I/O channel numbers to COMEDI
device/channel/subchannel information. An example 'stork.conf' file is
given in the 'COMEDI/etc' directory.
Installation of the REALTIME toolbox is highly recommended.
The usefulness of this toolbox is vastly improved (at least for
sampling intervals less than a few hundred milliseconds) if the Linux
kernel is patched to have sub-jiffie resolution, one such patch is
KURT (http://www.ittc.ku.edu/kurt/).
AUTHOR
=======
The toolbox for using COMEDI under scilab has been written by
Anders Blomdell 'http://www.control.lth.se/~andersb'.
Received on 2003-03-11Z14:56:00