From: piir@... (Todd Gardner)
Date: 2004-06-19T10:08:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Data acquisition software in Windows 2000

Stephan K�mper <Stephan.Kaemper@Schleswig-Holstein.de> wrote in message news:<2jflitF1161j9U1@uni-berlin.de>...
> Todd Gardner wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> > 
> > Could anyone point me to data acquisitions software that can use with
> > my Windows 2000 operating system?
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > Todd
> 
> What's the source of the data (from the PC point of view) - RS232 
> (parallel) port, USB, network? What's the data format/protocol?

The hardware will be determined upon what the capabilities of the
software are.

I think at this point I would be looking at PCI or USB hardware
however, that may change depending on the capabilities of me using
Ruby.

> I did some data acquisition using the RS232 port. If that's what you 
> prefer, I can offer some help.

What hardware did you use?

What serial libraries did you use for Ruby?
 
> BTW, by 'data acquisition' did you mean just the bare, say, library to 
> get the data into your Ruby program, or are you looking for something 
> like a complete software whith schedulers for data sampling, data 
> analysis and bells and whistles?

I am looking to learn about the capabilities of Ruby in data
acquisition.  I data acquisition I mean acquiring analog electrical
signals from outside the computer.
 
> Happy rubying
> 
> Stephan

Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you,

Todd