- From: Frank Mori Hess <fmhess_at_users.sourceforge.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:27:37 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 July 2003 12:23 pm, David Schleef wrote: > 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. > Also, most of the hype seems to be about pci-express lately. So it's possible that the 66MHz/64bit PCI bus will never attain widespread use. There are a couple NI 'pxi' boards currently supported, but I don't think any of them actually need the extra bandwidth. - -- Frank -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE/DehZ5vihyNWuA4URAqWXAKCxNki42nKqPE8bauS56o5E+H4ZcQCgq62p zljuQRdylMiRR/vy+CIZKt4= =AMeZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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