San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 10, 2009
ARS Technologies Inc. announces the release of software Support for National Instruments software and hardware products used together with the 'SSI2' and 'USB2' based products
National Instruments (NI) has a long history of innovation and currently is the top and major company providing hardware and software for data acquisition (DAQ) products.
The portfolio of software products of NI includes : NI LabVIEW, SignalExpress, Measurement Studio, LabWindows(TM)/CVI, DIAdem and many other packages.
Hardware products and interfaces supported include : Ethernet, GPIB, GPIB-VXI, VXI, PXI/PCI, Serial, USB, Firewire.
Most of the customers and users of the hardware and software products of NI are actually software and/or hardware developers themselves.
National Instruments has a very close relationship with its customers and users - through support services and nurturing of an online community.
Currently ARS Technologies has 2 lines of hardware products -
- USB2 based, which include USB2ISA family of products and USB2PCMCIA.
- SSI2 based, which include SSI2_ISA , SSI2_PCI , and SSI2_PCMCIA.
The USB2 and SSI2 lines of products are supported under a number of operating systems :
- Windows - 98,me,2000,xp,Server2003,vista,server2008, / 32bit and 64bit releases
- Linux - 2.4.xx and 2.6.xx kernels, / 32bit and 64bit releases
- Mac OS X - 10.4 Tiger, and 10.5 Leopard
Both USB2 and SSI2 lines of products offer software support for developers through the SDKBUS product, which contains an API set and samples for dealing with peripheral cards based on - ISA, PCI and PCMCIA bus.
We offer a subset of our API set from our commercial product - SDKBUS, to customers of the products of National Instruments.
It is available free, included as a part of our installation software.
ARS Technologies offers commands used for:
- access to i/o ports
- access to physical memory
- checking the IRQ/DMA channels
The above commands may be used not only under NI VISA environment, but on all of the NI interfaces and environments, under Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.
The API set is available as 'C' functions. Under Windows environment there is VisualBasic API set offered as well.
The offering of ARS Technologies covers 2 general cases -
1. For Developers and users of older hardware and older NI software
New releases of the software packages of NI no longer support ISA cards and 16 bit PCMCIA cards.
The developers can rebuild older software, using our API set, to use older hardware with the latest software packages of NI.
Older hardware - ISA, PCI, PCMCIA cards, initially supported under older Windows releases, may now be used on computers running a variety of operating systems including new Windows releases, Linux, and Mac OS X.
In addition hardware cards suited for use on one type of computer system, may be used on another type of system, for example:
- use of ISA and PCI cards on notebook systems
- use of ISA and 16/32bit PCMCIA cards on desktop systems
- use of ISA and 16bit PCMCIA cards on embedded systems with no bus slots
2. For Developers and users of new hardware and software
ISA cards and 16 bit PCMCIA cards are very easy to develop, implement, and test as a hardware.
Developers of new ISA, PCI, PCMCIA cards have more freedom with the size, and dimensions of the cards, and the power budget / currents consumed of the peripheral cards.
In addition, developers no longer need to deal with :
- device drivers - under Windows
- loadable kernel modules - under Linux
- kernel extensions - under Mac OS X
Hardware cards developed for use on one type of computer system, may be used on another type of system, as shown :
- use of ISA and PCI cards on notebook systems
- use of ISA and 16/32bit PCMCIA cards on desktop systems
- use of ISA and 16bit PCMCIA cards on embedded systems with no bus slots
We, at ARS Technologies are pleased by the increasing interest in our products, especially in a tough economy.
The timing is perfect to start developing future generations of products.
USB2ISA, USB2PCMCIA, SSI2 are registered trademarks of ARS Technologies Inc. in the United States and other countries.
CVI, DIAdem, LabVIEW, SignalExpress, National Instruments and NI are trademarks of National Instruments.
Other product and company names listed are trademarks or trade names of their respective companies.
About ARS Technologies, Inc.
We virtualize peripherals
Headquartered in San Diego, California ARS Technologies' products allow using ISA, PCI, PCMCIA cards outside of computer systems.
The company is selling its products in more than 50 countries of the world.
Contacts:
Fax: 1-866-227-7605
http://www.arstech.com
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