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From: yackob@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca (Kerry Yackoboski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.dsp
Subject: add-in boards for PC-based control system?
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.174254.8596@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 6 Apr 91 17:42:54 GMT
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	Problem: I want to put together a PC-based control
system that will acquire data, digitally figure out what the
feedback should be doing, correct the control signal, and send
it out to the plant.  The system should operate at 100 kHz or better.

	Query: does anyone know of an add-in board I can buy
that will make this easy and quick to do?  I know I can build my
own from the chips up using a DSP, A/D's and D/A, ROM, and RAM.
However, if I can find an easier and faster way to do it, I'll
take the fastest way.  I've looked at a few data acquisition
boards that are used to log data or control slow processes (e.g.,
temperature controllers) but I haven't seen anything like
what I want.

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Kerry Yackoboski 	<yackob@eeserv.ee.umanitoba.ca>
The Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Laboratory in the Cellar
U of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada