ATI-All-in-Wonder?

[Sinrok]

I noticed this question was asked before but was wondering if anyone out there had found a driver to use an ATI card to aquire into the Imaq system. NE info or direction would be greatly appreciated. Thanx Kevin

[nestor-sg]

The way I feel you are tyring to make your system is acquiring the video from the ATI board and using it with IMAQ Vision.

This feature is indeed not supported, but you may find solutions with the manufacturer of the ATI Video board. If they do have a driver (DLL) with some SDK or similar to acquire the video you will find it easy to interface with LabVIEW, if this is what you are using or other programming language, get the video in memory as a 2D array of numbers and then convert this array into the image data type for IMAQ Vision. Please check with the manufacturers if they do have this options, if not then I hope another enthusiast may have a solution to offer to you.

Good luck!

Nestor Sanchez
IMAQ/Motion Support
National Instruments

[Brent_R]

The NI-IMAQ hardware driver is only designed to work with NI framegrabbers, however the IMAQ Vision processing software will accept images from any source. All of the IMAQ Vision functions use our proprietary Image* data type. As long as you can call the ATI driver and get an array of image data back, you should be able to use the IMAQ Array to Image function to format the image into the data type recognized by the IMAQ Vision functions.

The ATI Developer's page is probably a good place to start.

http://www.ati.com/developer/index.html

Brent R.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments