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Linux® Comedi DIO Drivers

A number of Amplicon's data acquisition cards have Linux® Comedi drivers. Comedi provides an open source standard for data acquisition plug-in boards. The standard supports a variety of common data acquisition plug-in boards. The drivers are implemented as a core Linux kernel module providing common functionality and individual low-level driver modules.

About Comedi Linux control and measurement device interface

The latest Comedi drivers and libraries (comedilib) releases and Git development snapshots are available from

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The following Amplicon Digital and Analogue IO cards have Comedi drivers and are supported under Linux:

Product
Number
Brief Product Description
PC36AT ISA card with 24 digital IO lines
PCI236 PCI card with 24 digital IO lines
PCIe236 PCI Express card with 24 digital IO lines and 6 (2×3) software-configured counter channels
PC263 ISA 16 line Relay card
PCI263 PCI 16 line Relay card
PC212E ISA card with 24 digital IO lines and 12 (4×3) software-configured counter channels
PC214E ISA card with 48 (2×24) digital IO lines and 3 software-configured counter channels
PC215E ISA card with 48 (2×24) digital IO lines and 6 (2×3) software-configured counter channels
PCI215 PCI card with 48 (2×24) digital IO lines and 6 (2×3) software-configured counter channels
PCIe215 PCI Express card with 48 (2×24) digital IO lines and 6 (2×3) software-configured counter channels
PC218E ISA card with 18 (6×3) software-configured counter channels
PC272E ISA card with 72 (3×24) digital IO lines
PCI272 PCI card with 72 (3×24) digital IO lines
PCIe296 PCI Express card with 96 (4×24) digital IO lines and 6 (2×3) software-configured counter channels
PCI224 PCI 3 Counters, 16 multiplexed 12-bit DACs with FIFO buffer
PCI234 PCI 3 Counters, 4 multiplexed 16-bit DACs with FIFO buffer
PCI230 PCI 3 Counters, 16 multiplexed ADCs with FIFO buffer, 2 DACs
PCI260 PCI 3 Counters, 16 multiplexed ADCs with FIFO buffer

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