NI M-Series boards

The RLP informations will be welcomed !
Here at IPCMS, an Institute of Materials Science in France,
We are involved in software developpement for data acquisition.

We noted the M-series boards (e.g. PCI-6221) for our DAQ applications.
Unfortunately, if there are no Comedi drivers available soon, we'll also
have to shift to another manufacturer, as Steve Sharples did.


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 malcolm.borgendale_at_ni.com wrote:

> There have been a couple of posts to this list about M Series register
> level programming, so I'd like to provide some insight. We have been
> very pleased with the interest in our new M Series Multifunction I/O
> products.
> We are indeed currently working on register-level programming (RLP)
> information and code examples for these devices through the Measurement
> Hardware DDK.  While we can't guarantee a release date, our internal
> target for initial RLP information is the second quarter of 2005.  While
> the new M Series devices are an upgrade of the existing NI STC based E
> Series devices, the register set is sufficiently different that they
> require entirely new documentation and examples for the Measurement
> Hardware DDK.
> Also, please be assured that the E Series device are not going to be
> obsoleted any time soon.  NI has a long history of supporting DAQ
> devices for many years and the E Series devices are no different.
>
> Thank you for your patience as we complete this development of M Series
> RLP information, Measurement Hardware DDK examples, and NI-DAQmx Driver
> software (our own Linux driver software).  Please don't hesitate to
> contact me if you have any additional questions or would like an update
> on our M Series RLP schedule.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Malcolm Borgendale | Measurements Software | malcolm.borgendale_at_ni.com |
> 512-683-8336
>
> comedi-admin_at_comedi.org wrote on 11/18/2004 08:29:54 AM:
>
> Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:56:35 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Steve Sharples <sds_at_eee.nottingham.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: steve.sharples_at_nottingham.ac.uk
> To: "comedi_at_comedi.org" <comedi_at_comedi.org>
> Subject: Re: NI M-Series devices
> >
> > On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Bryan Cole wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone comment on whether National Instruments new M-Series
> > > MultiFunc-IO cards will work with Comedi?
> >
> > (As far as I know) at the moment they won't. This appears to be
> > because NI will not release the register-level information required to
> > write drivers for the new boards. I wrote to NI a couple of weeks ago
> > regarding this ...
> > It's quite frustrating. In the end we ended up buying a couple of
> > cards from Amplicon (PCI230):
> >
http://www.amplicon.co.uk/dr-prod3.cfm/subsecid/10056/secid/1/groupId/59.htm

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Fabrice MAINGOT
IPCMS - ULP
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maingot_at_ipcms.u-strasbg.fr

Received on 2004-11-29Z11:26:35