21.10 LABORATORY - INTERFACING TO A DAQ CARD

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Purpose:

To use a data aquisition card to aquire data.

Overview:

The daq card will be placed into a Linux computer and then controlled with the drive programs listed in this chapter.

Pre-Lab:

1. Visit the computer boards web site (www.computerboards.com) and review the manual for the DAS-08 ISA board.

In-Lab:

1. Complete the tutorial for the DAS-08 DAQ card.

2. Modify the tutorial program so that the analog input value from the board is read once a second and written to a database.

Submit (individually):

1. The program developed during the laboratory.