Amplicon Liveline is opening up Linux to end-users for acquisition and analysis tasks by offering drivers from both Microstar Laboratories and United Electronic Industries productsAmplicon Liveline extends its range of products and opens up options to end-users with the open-source environment for acquisition and analysis tasks: Linux, offering drivers from both Microstar Laboratories, Inc., the manufacturer or real time Data Acquisition Boards, and United Electronic Industries, a supplier of high speed and general purpose data acquisition products. The company is able to offer the Linux driver for PCI DAP boards, complementary to Microstar's existing Linux driver for ISA DAP boards. Working with all PCI DAP boards from the top-of-the-line down to the entry level, this new board has onboard intelligence implemented as DAPL; a multitasking real-time operating system running on a an onboard processor.
The user is able to control this from an application running under a Linux system that contains the board.
The new product also supports Linux kernel 2.2.
An application communicates with DAPL through the standard file system interface, by using the C file system library functions.
DAPL can specify exactly how the DAP board has to behave during the application, by providing over 100 easy-to-use commands optimised for data acquisition and control.
Amplicon has also expanded its range with the new PowerDAQ for Linux drivers from UEI, available for immediate download off the web.
The software supports UEI's line of PCI-based PowerDAQ II data acquisition and control cards, and is also shipped with all hardware as part of the PowerDAQ software suite CD.
The drivers are designed to work with version 2.2X release of the Linux kernel, for example Debian Gnu/Linux 2.2, Redhat Linux 6.1 and Corel Linux.
For users running UEI hardware under Linux, the cards achieve the same extremely high level of performance that customers expect from Windows versions.
Any end users wishing to run the driver under Linux kernel versions other than 2.2X may recompile it.
As many as four PowerDAQ cards in one backplane including the PD2-MFS series of high-speed simultaneous sampling cards are catered for.