[Halld-online] What is NI Single-Board RIO - National Instruments

[Elliott Wolin]

Hi,

I think these are the general purpose FPGA-based digital I/O boards the 
NI rep was talking about:

     http://www.ni.com/singleboard/whatis/

Yi says we have a Labview/FPGA license so we wouldn't need to purchase 
software to program them.  A paper I read from LANL said they were very 
happy using Labview to program the FPGA compared to using VHDL or whatever.

I think the base version is about $1k, compared to a bunch more for the 
CAEN V1495.  The latter may have more functionality, not clear if we 
need all of it.  NI has four different versions of this board.

I imagine we could get a loaner, assuming Yi has time to do an evaluation.

Thoughts...?

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				Sincerely,
					Elliott


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