Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 11:51:40 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Peter Dufault <dufault@hda.com> Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast a-d card Message-ID: <199708240221.LAA00737@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Aug 1997 17:06:53 -0400." <199708222106.RAA18095@hda.hda.com>
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> Can anyone suggest a fast (40Mhz) 8 bit PCI A-D card with flexible > DMA hardware or on board smarts from a company that provides > technical info and believes in life outside of Windows? This could > be anything from a good fast flexible board to a oscilloscope board > to a combo DSP/A-D card. Datel have a very nice board that I got _that_ close to getting to use recently. The card itself provides the PCI interface & triggering, and there are a pile of plugin modules to choose from. We were looking at the 16-channel 250KHz plugin, but I'm fairly sure there was a single-channel module at the 40MHz mark. The card we were looking at was comfortably under the AUD$6000 mark; I don't think the plugins vary a great deal in price. > A single channel, the ability to level trigger, and chaining of > DMA buffers with configurable done interrupt are the minimum > requirement. The PCI interface on these cards is provided by the AMCC 9533 PCI Matchmaker; it has _most_ of what you want, but no DMA buffer chaining. The card does have fairly deep FIFOs though, so you could probably do your buffer chaining manually without too much stress. AMCC were more than happy to send me a copy of the databook for the 9533, and Datel were likewise open about programming their card; for about AUD$700 more we could have had the source to their DOS-based diagnostic/ test/harddisk-recorder program if we felt we needed examples. You could try National Instruments, but getting data on their MITE PCI interface ASIC is like kicking dead whales down the beach with a jelly toothbrush nailed to a tree 8) > PCI only - no ISA is available. At 40MHz? No shit 8) mike
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