New Support from National Instruments

National Instruments is releasing our primary data acquisition driver
NI-DAQmx 8.0 on Linux tomorrow.  It supports all PCIe/PCI/PXI plug-in DAQ
devices supported by NI-DAQmx for Windows as well as SCXI and SCC signal
conditioning hardware on Mandriva 10.1/Mandrake 2006, Suse 9.2/9.3, and
Redhat Workstation 3.  Although this release does not include PCMCIA or USB
support, DAQmx Base and MHDDK do continue to support these devices.  The
NI-DAQmx API supports LabVIEW and GCC and is distributed under the NI
Software License.

NI-DAQmx for Linux uses the same codebase as the Windows version of the
driver.  National Instruments is still committed to continuing to provide
RLP hardware documentation as it becomes available (i.e. NI PCI/PXI 6509,
651x, 6520, 6521, and 6528 RLP documentation is being added this week.)
DAQmx Base is still supported on Linux and along with MHDDK is a useful
register level programming and driver development resource.

So here is where NI’s DAQ drivers are today:
MHDDK -     low level register access code, very small footprint, DAQ HW
documention, requires customization, full source code in C++
DAQmx Base  -     higher level DAQmx compatible API, source code in LabVIEW
from the high level API down to the low level register accesses,
customizable because internals are written in LabVIEW
DAQmx 8.0   -     directly compatible with DAQmx 8.0 for Windows

You can find more information here: http://www.ni.com/linux/


Please email/call me if you have any questions.

S. Craig Anderson
National Instruments
Product Marketing Manager
Data Acquisition Software
(512) 683-5907

Received on 2005-12-14Z18:18:05