Control & Data acquisition

Software

Real Time

IEEE 1588 Precision Clock Synchronization Protocol for Networked Measurement and Control Systems to support system-wide synchronization accuracy in the sub-microsecond range with minimal network and local clock computing resources
RTAI - the RealTime Application Interface for Linux from DIAPM
Xenomai
RTLinux
Adeos virtualization layer

Misc soft

NI Measurement Hardware DDK (Driver Development Kit)
How To Switch Between NI-DAQmx Base and NI-DAQmx on Linux
NI forums
  • Linux Users
  • NI-DAQmx Base Developers
  • Data Acquisition Driver Software Options for Linux
  • installing niDaqmx on RHEL 5
    NI manuals on ftp
    NI manuals
    CoMedi
    Open Instrumentation Project
    TINE (Three-fold Integrated Networking Environment)
    DOOCS
  • Hardware

    measurement computing (often their boards are supported in Comedi)
    Amplicon (some boards are supported by Comedi)
    AdvanTech (libraries and drivers with sources)
    ADLINK (NDA for sources)
    General Standards Corporation (GSC) (drivers with sources)
    Acquitek (soft ?)
    National Instruments
  • Field Wiring and Noise Considerations for Analog Signals
  • Using a Unity Gain Buffer with a DAQ Device
    SPECTRUM GmbH (boards are big, drivers for many dist, NDA for sources)
    • M2i.3016 - PCI/PCI-X 40MHz 12bit Transient Recoder (Spectrum)
    DP240 Dual-Channel PCI Digitizer Card1Gs/s 8-bit; acqiris (Agilent Technologies)
    Eagle Technology
    GaGe
    Innovative Integration (PCI, PMC/XMC, PCIe)
    digilent
  • PmodAD5 - 4 (diff) channel 4.8 KHz 24 bit A/D converter
    United Electronic Industries (PowerDAQ Linux/Windows - source for link to the kernel ;-)
    ICPDAS
    DAC/ADC and other PC boards (Russia)
    local harware at INP
  • just USB

    FTDI - specialists in converting legacy peripherals to USB
    Cypress can do USB convertors too
    USB DUX
    phidgets Products for USB Sensing and Control
    LabJack USB, 14-ch ADC 16bit 20us, 50ks - stream, with soft sources
    Affordable USB Lab Instruments Syscomp (soft from Open Instr Proj)

    DSP

    FPGA and DSP for Programmable RTime System from Hunt Engineering
    Sheldon Instruments

    CAN devices

    Xenomai API: CAN devices
    Controlling CAN-Devices