Re: [Alsa-user] [new babe questions] alsa based data acquisition system

2010-11-29 Thread gary
> http://www.bitscope.com/ Bitscope makes USB data acquisition that supposedly (if you believe their website) is linux compatible. They even have isolated hardware. Granted, this is more expensive than using a soundcard. As an alternative, based on reports from sci.engineering.design, those ch

Re: [Alsa-user] [new babe questions] alsa based data acquisition system

2010-11-29 Thread J. Pauli
> Agreed, that with expensive cards you can get up to frequencies of 40 to > 80KHz. They all have hard falloffs to prevent aliasing however. I do not know > where they put that falloff even for the expensice cards. In may ways it is > silly to put the falloff much above 20KHz since the ear ( which

Re: [Alsa-user] [new babe questions] alsa based data acquisition system

2010-11-29 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, J. Pauli wrote: >> Thanks Unruh. superb explanation. Now I started to analyse things with >> specification. I shall update regarding this and share my experience. > > Hi, > > with certain restrictions it is possible to do what you are asking > because an analog soundcard is j

Re: [Alsa-user] [new babe questions] alsa based data acquisition system

2010-11-29 Thread J. Pauli
> Thanks Unruh. superb explanation. Now I started to analyse things with > specification. I shall update regarding this and share my experience. Hi, with certain restrictions it is possible to do what you are asking because an analog soundcard is just a bunch of DACs and ADCs. Depending on the

Re: [Alsa-user] [new babe questions] alsa based data acquisition system

2010-11-29 Thread Sathishkumar Duraisamy
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote: > > Dear all, >> >> I am new to the list and to the alsa library. In my application, I have to >> collect data from outside world in the form of voltage, and then plot. I >> have done the plot

Re: [Alsa-user] [new babe questions] alsa based data acquisition system

2010-11-29 Thread Bill Unruh
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Sathishkumar Duraisamy wrote: > Dear all, > > I am new to the list and to the alsa library. In my application, I have to > collect data from outside world in the form of voltage, and then plot. I > have done the plotting and GUI parts of the application. Now I have to use > an

[Alsa-user] [new babe questions] alsa based data acquisition system

2010-11-29 Thread Sathishkumar Duraisamy
Dear all, I am new to the list and to the alsa library. In my application, I have to collect data from outside world in the form of voltage, and then plot. I have done the plotting and GUI parts of the application. Now I have to use an ADC to collect the data. My question: Is it possible to use t