PCI Driver Software Cuts The Cost Of Real-Time LabView

Oct. 27, 2003

PowerDAQ for LabView real-time drivers is available free with each I/O board purchased from the company, enabling low-cost real-time LabView applications on the PCI bus. The only hardware that users must purchase is a real-time interface card, the PD2-LVRT-PCI, which costs $50. Users can select virtually any commercially available PCI system, as long as it has sufficient free slots: one to hold the PD-LVRT-PCI real-time interface card and additional slots for the user's choice of PowerDAQ I/O cards like the company's PD2-MF-16-1M/12. This $1650 card has 16 12-bit analog inputs that sample at 1.25 Msamples/s, two analog outputs, plus 32 digital I/O points, and three user counter/timers. All parts are in stock.

UEI Inc.ww.ueidaq.com; (781) 821-2890

About the Author

Roger Allan

Roger Allan is an electronics journalism veteran, and served as Electronic Design's Executive Editor for 15 of those years. He has covered just about every technology beat from semiconductors, components, packaging and power devices, to communications, test and measurement, automotive electronics, robotics, medical electronics, military electronics, robotics, and industrial electronics. His specialties include MEMS and nanoelectronics technologies. He is a contributor to the McGraw Hill Annual Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. He is also a Life Senior Member of the IEEE and holds a BSEE from New York University's School of Engineering and Science. Roger has worked for major electronics magazines besides Electronic Design, including the IEEE Spectrum, Electronics, EDN, Electronic Products, and the British New Scientist. He also has working experience in the electronics industry as a design engineer in filters, power supplies and control systems.

After his retirement from Electronic Design Magazine, He has been extensively contributing articles for Penton’s Electronic Design, Power Electronics Technology, Energy Efficiency and Technology (EE&T) and Microwaves RF Magazine, covering all of the aforementioned electronics segments as well as energy efficiency, harvesting and related technologies. He has also contributed articles to other electronics technology magazines worldwide.

He is a “jack of all trades and a master in leading-edge technologies” like MEMS, nanolectronics, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, military electronics, biometrics, implantable medical devices, and energy harvesting and related technologies.