PC measurement card

[AustinMan@NI]

The PCI-6281 is a decent card, but it costs over $3,000 and is marked as Last Time Buy, which means NI is about to discontinue selling it. Using a PCI to ISA adaptor could also be an issue.

Have you considered a PCIe card. The PCIe-6320 costs $755 and exceeds the performance and specs. of the Lab PC+. With the leftover budget you can buy a new PC.

Whichever card you select, you will need to rewrite your application software to use the NI-DAQmx driver. Neither the 6281, or 6320 support the NI-DAQ driver used by the Lab PC+.

There may be something I don't know about your system requirements, but buying a card that has a list price of over $3,000 and is about to be discontinued is an interesting choice.

As for schematic drawings, register level programming manuals, etc. NI does not make those available. You can find connecter pinouts and basic functionality information in the documentation.

PCIe-6320 - NI

NI-DAQ™mx Download - NI

[SHAMBU001]

Hello Austin

Thanks for the reply.

I wanted to ask regarding the ISA card we are using right now 

MPN :182095-01, 182095C-01

What is the use of these A1 to A32 Pins  

[SHAMBU001]

Hello Austin 

I have gone through all kinds of replacement and repair options anything is not feasible in my current scenario,

Actually, I am dealing with some of the Legacy hardware, and it would not be possible for us to change the connector rig or anything in hardware. We only have the option to redesign the card, so is there any way I can have the reference schematic and ISA implementation source code support through any kind of technical support window of NI which can also be paid. Also our requirement for the board is quite High. If you can provide end to end support till testing for redesign and quote me for that it will be helpfull.

[SHAMBU001]

If you could share me any portal link for reference DAQ design, and software implementation for ISA it would also be helpful.

[santo_13]

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@SHAMBU001 wrote:

If you could share me any portal link for reference DAQ design, and software implementation for ISA it would also be helpful.

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You can make an offer to NI to buy rights to reproduce the DAQ on your own. That needs a good lucrative number for NI to even talk with you on the possibility. Are you fine with talking in terms of may be $xxx,000 to do that?

In general, what leverage do you have to make NI discuss with you of possibility?

[SHAMBU001]

Hello Austin

Expecting a reply from you.

[rolfk]

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@SHAMBU001 wrote:

Hello Austin

Expecting a reply from you.

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He can't speak for NI. He is simply an employee and can't make such decisions. The chance that it is even possible is absolutely minimal. For a few dozen boards per year, it is not even worth to start to think about trying to restart production, or find the design files in some long forgotten backup location.

And some of those chips on that board are not even purchasable anymore. As to your question of the A1 to A32 pins, that are simply the ISA bus signals. That is how the IO cards were more or less directly connected to the data and address bus of the CPU, before there was PCI bus technology with their very complex signal protocol and the requirement to have complex chipsets that manage the bus connections between PCI, USB, CPU, memory and harddisk in a way that was not continuously stepping on each others feet.

Saying anything more than he has already said could get him in legal difficult situations, so here the old saying applies: Talking is silver, silence is gold!

[SHAMBU001]

Hello Rolf

Thanks for your clear words

Anything you can help with to kickstart new design would be greatly appreciated.