Hi arbm,
The solution depends on how "real-time" your application needs to be. You will definitely be able to use the MIO board to measure your signals from your amplifier (no more than +/- 10V) but you will not be able to achieve control loops greater than a couple kHz depending on your computer system. The reason is because this board is designed to be used with the standard NI-DAQ driver which is not typically used in real-time systems. This means you will have to use it with a standard Windows operating system. Since it is Windows, you will not have true determinism but you should be able to achieve fairly tight control loops.
Depending on what application program you are programming the board in, you should get shipping examples with NI-DAQ. When i
nstalling NI-DAQ (the hardware driver) you will have an option to select your application development program (LabVIEW, or LabWindows/CVI, or VC++ etc.) and this will install examples. You can get to the examples from the Help menu in LabVIEW or you can get to them in the CVI directory on your hard drive. If you have a different ADE then the examples will be installed in the NI-DAQ folder off of National Instruments. Here is a document that might help.
When Do I Need a Real-Time System?
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/ACAB456A69990A6E862568BD00742791?opendocument
Anyway, hope that gets you started. Have a good day.
Ron
