PC/104+ frame grabber for LabVIEW

[M_Kunze]

Hi wireworkers

Is there anyone out there using a PC/104+ (PCI not ISA) frame grabber?

I would like to use it with LabVIEW. Therefore I need a DLL to control the frame grabber or a driver with an ActiveX control.

I don't have the need to stream the data to disk. A simple frame grabber would be great.

Thank you in advance

[AnalogKid2DigitalMan]

You may want to check out Matrox

[Norbert_B]

Martin,

i was not able to find out what exactly a PC/104+ frame grabber is, but due to this link, it seems to be any frame grabber using this bus.

This situation does not differ to any other one where you want to include components which have no API supplied with their drivers (or at least it seems that you dont have found it yet 🙂 )
There are three possible "solutions":
a) the vendor of the component supplies you with a proper API in you programming language (so you might want to check the hp from the vendor for a download or support)
b) the driver supplies you with a well documented driver DLL which you can include in your application. You can create your own instrument driver then...
c) the component delivers only an exe to work with it; you will have a very hard time (if possible at all) to include the component in your application.....

Please note that a), b) and c) are NOT connected to LV as a special case but are true for ALL programming languages!

hope this helps,
Norbert

Message Edited by Norbert B on 11-14-2007 04:00 AM

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TheProfessional wrote:

Hi wireworkers

Is there anyone out there using a PC/104+ (PCI not ISA) frame grabber?

I would like to use it with LabVIEW. Therefore I need a DLL to control the frame grabber or a driver with an ActiveX control.

I don't have the need to stream the data to disk. A simple frame grabber would be great.

Thank you in advance

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A short Google search comes up with following links:

http://www.sensoray.com/products/311data.htm They have optional Win98/2000/NT/XP/CE SDK

http://www.rtd.com/PC104/PC104_peripheral%20Module.htm#frame%20grabber All with Linux support and some with DOS and Windows

http://www.phytec.com/products/image-processing/pc104grabber.html Seems to have even LabVIEW drivers

http://www.eurotech.fi/products/INT-1462.html

http://www.cme.co.za/PDFs/2/PM-1053.PDF

and many more

Rolf Kalbermatter