[clue] [tech] Linux-supported Data Acquisition OEM module with USB interface?

[Nick Pascucci]

Jim,

You might try looking into Phidgets boards. I'm not sure if they'll have
enough accuracy for you, but it's worth a look.

Regards,
Nick Pascucci



On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> wrote:

> **
> Hi CLUEbies,
>
> I'm doing a bit of research and I need to find an OEM data acquisition
> module which I can use from a Linux program.  That is, it has to have Linux
> libraries.  Most of what I find on the 'net is for Windows and they have
> Labview libraries with only Microsoft Windows support.  I found one company
> mccdaq.com which has a USB OEM module (the USB-7000 series supports Linux)
> but those have not enough digital I/Os or else low resolution (12-bit)
> analog input.  Their more powerful boards are Windows only.
>
> Any ideas from the CLUE audience about where to look?  This is for an
> embedded industrial control type application that also requires high
> resolution (very high accuracy & precision) sampling of some analog inputs.
> We need 16-bit resolution at least.  It doesn't have to be fast, 4Hz is what
> we have now.  We need at least 16 digital I/O and 8 16-bit analog input.
> Isolation is good too.
>
> It'd be nice to get a prepackaged board with software but I've thought
> about trying to roll my own with Arduino.  The only A/D example I see for
> the Arduino is 12-bit resolution.  I guess I could put them back to back as
> differential inputs and get 24-bit resolution, but either way that is a fair
> bit of hardware complexity and time/effort that I'd rather just buy.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>
> --
> Jim Ockers, P.Eng. (ockers at ockers.net)
> Contact info: http://www.ockers.net/msi.html
>
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