Product category: Sensors and Data Acquisition
News Release from: United Electronic Industries | Subject: First fully supported LabView drivers for Linux
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 7 February 2002
LabView makes it onto Linux
PowerDAQ LabView for Linux makes it unnecessary to turn to open-source drivers, giving engineers the security of a tested software layer driviving some of the industry's most advanced hardware
Until today, getting a LabView application running under Linux to talk directly to data-acquisition hardware was complicated at best and sometimes impossible. Indeed, while open-source drivers are available for cards from other vendors users still face the problem of getting them running and then finding a LabView VI to interface to them.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 February 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Now, thanks to PowerDAQ LabView for Linux - a set of free, fully supported drivers that interface with PowerDAQ I/O hardware for both the PCI bus and PXI bus - users can quickly create LabView programs under Linux with full confidence that their applications run optimally and reliably.
In addition, for the first time anyone can modify existing Windows-based LabView programs and run them under Linux in just a few moments.
This driver set also offers users something far beyond mere compatibility with Windows applications: now they can control Linux-based real-time processes from LabView.
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To do so, they first add real-time extension to Linux, create the real-time I/O portions of an application (based on UEI's existing Linux drivers for standard programming langauges), then use third-party VIs to interface LabView to the real-time module.
In this way, users can run applications in a reliable environment, eliminating the worries associated with indeterministic Windows behaviour, and still take advantage of LabView's ability to implement sophisticated graphical interfaces and perform post-processing.
Further, such real-time applications require no additional hardware beyond UEI's standard line of PCI and PXI I/O cards and modules.
To ease programming, the driver set ships with an extensive set of example LabView programs that illustrate how to work with these VIs and that also serve as a basis for quickly creating custom applications.
Among these almost 150 VIs are many that illustrate how to take advantage of the high-performance features found in PowerDAQ hardware.
UEI has tested the drivers to confirm that they work under any distribution based on Linux Kernel 2.2.x and 2.4.x; our development staff has successfully written programs that run under Mandrake 8.1, RedHat 6.2, 7.0 and 7.2, Caldera 3.1 and Suse 7.2.
The driver also runs under the RT-Linux and RTAI realtime extensions, and the driver set comes with examples that show how to employ PowerDAQ hardware in a realtime application.
The PowerDAQ LabView for Linux driver set consists of a family of VIs that are either drop-in replacements for VIs from National Instruments or enhancement VIs.
The PowerDAQ LabView for Linux driver supports all hardware in UEI's PowerDAQ PCI and PXI hardware families.
The VIs ship at no charge on the bundled PowerDAQ Software Suite CD-ROM supplied with each board.
Users can also download the VIs from UEI's website.
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