I may be wrong about this, but most NI cards seem to use a single UART and
timeshare it - this could cause you serious problems if you are aniticipating
being able to read and write from all 16 ports simultaneously. I'd check
the hardware specification for that NI card closely before worrying about
the computer being fast enough. I've had to revert to Comtrol RocketPorts
in the past because of this issue.
Cheers,
Ben
Jaime Rios wrote:
>Hello, I would like to know if I have a fast enough computer for the>application
I'm developing. I have just ordered the PCI/232-16 Serial>Interface card
from National Instruments and plan to use it with a>Pentium 150 running Windows
NT with 64MB of memory. I'm writing the>LabView program to contain 16 individual
whi
le loops for each ports of>the interface card (that's 16 while loops,
just to let you know). I'll>be constantly writing and reading from the ports
and displaying the data>read by the port. If anyone can comment on what I
have so far, or can>say anything about how fast LabView code executes, I'd
greatly>appreciate it.>>Thanks,>Joe>
