Re: status NI6601/6602 drivers

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Vladimir Dzhuvinov wrote:

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> Herman Bruyninckx wrote:
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>  > We use this driver on a 2DOF robot system, and it has been running
>  > stably for several months now. The driver does _not_ implement all
>  > possible features of the card though.
> Thank you for your reply. I briefly went through the patches.
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> I need a quadrature decoder for an industrial application. The following
> is required:
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> * X2 quadrature decoding
> * position readout rate between 50Hz and 20KHz
> * the counter should be automatically reset by the
> card upon detection of a rising edge of Z
> 
> It looks like the NI660x driver implements enough functionality to cover
> my needs, am I right to say that?
> 
We haven't tested the driver for higher acquisition rates than
1-KHz...
We have not tested the Z index pulse functionality...

> Why hasn't the patch made its way into the CVS yet? Is it an unresolved
> API issue?
I guess so: the counter API is not part of the current beta of Comedi,
so it will have to wait till after the 1.0 version has stabilized. (I
think.)

> May I also ask what particular Linux and COMEDI version you use in your
> robot application?
2.4.19 and 2.4.2X kernels, RTAI from CVS, and Comedi from CVS.

Good luck with the card. And please feel free to update the driver
patches :-)

Herman

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Received on 2003-10-20Z07:42:27