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For me it's finally coming down to crunch time. I have a Sea Level Systems 48 bit Digital IO board on a PCI bus (their part number 8005) that I have to interface with some custom hardware. I'll be pushing the DIO board and external hardware for all the speed I can get out of it. Over the last 12 months I have managed to get the user hardware and custom circuitry under control, but I have to get the system, including software, up and running by Nov 1.
Sea Level Systems provides a C API and an a VB ActiveX control to interface with their hardware. When the system is up an running the PC will be locked away in a secure location accessible to only the administrator. Users will interface with a variety of controls and indicators, not the PC.
I've been evaluating various languages and I would prefer to use PBCC for its speed. I have used a variety of BASIC languages over the years and the learning curve would be very short. Other considerations are Java (a bit of a learning curve), and VB (slow, bloated, and dead last on my list). I'm not experienced in C so that is pretty much out of the running given the time constraints.
Reading through the PBCC documentation, it looks like the C API would be the preferred approach to interfacing with the Sea Level hardware. I assume that I would use the DECLARE Statement and CDECL and the ALIAS to convert the full path name for the Sea Level API call to something more reasonable.
I just wanted to ask what other's experience has been in interfacing PBCC with external hardware.
Sea Level Systems provides a C API and an a VB ActiveX control to interface with their hardware. When the system is up an running the PC will be locked away in a secure location accessible to only the administrator. Users will interface with a variety of controls and indicators, not the PC.
I've been evaluating various languages and I would prefer to use PBCC for its speed. I have used a variety of BASIC languages over the years and the learning curve would be very short. Other considerations are Java (a bit of a learning curve), and VB (slow, bloated, and dead last on my list). I'm not experienced in C so that is pretty much out of the running given the time constraints.
Reading through the PBCC documentation, it looks like the C API would be the preferred approach to interfacing with the Sea Level hardware. I assume that I would use the DECLARE Statement and CDECL and the ALIAS to convert the full path name for the Sea Level API call to something more reasonable.
I just wanted to ask what other's experience has been in interfacing PBCC with external hardware.
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