Re: NI M-Series devices

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 18:31 +0200, Ori Idan wrote:
> I am happy to see someone from NI on this list.

I've seen several.
> 
> I did not know that NI has their own Linux driver software...

NI has, I believe, a full implementation of LabView for Linux.  LabView
is a bit pricy, but my electronics technician, for one, feels it is well
worth what it costs.  I am not using it because the project I'm doing at
the moment is real time, and right now NI's realtime solution is a
separate CPU and OS on a plugin card.  I'd rather use RTAI and comedi.

> It seems strange to me that company like NI does not release the 
> information needed for writing drivers to their cards, 

But it seems to me that they do.  The register-level programming
documents which Malcom Borgendale referred to contain most if not all of
the information needed to write comedi drivers for their boards.  It's
just that the documentation for the M series isn't ready yet.

I for one am quite happy with the mix of support from NI for Linux.

-- 
Stephen Walton, Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
stephen.walton_at_csun.edu