Re: 64-bit 66-Mhz PCI cards?.

On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:11:45PM +0200, Ivan Martinez wrote:
> 	Hello all,
> 	I'm choosing new hardware for a data acquisition system, and I was wondering 
> if it was worth to pay for a motherboard with 64-bit 66-Mhz PCI slots. Are 
> there any A/D or D/A cards that require that type of slot?. Will there be 
> more in the next years?. Is there any supported by Comedi?.

I don't think there's much advantage to 64-bit cards for most
common data acquisition.  I would guess that a few high-end
cards that have huge bandwidth requirements will probably start
using the newer bus. (like the 16-bit 65-Mhz analog input board,
no I don't have one)  Otherwise, I'd bet that regular PCI cards
will be the majority of available hardware until it becomes
hard to find systems with PCI slots.  This is what finally pushed
data acquisition manufacturers to switch away from ISA.



dave...

Received on 2003-07-10Z16:23:19