Can you recomend a PC Card IO controller

Putting aside our obvious political disagreements. (This elitists will try! lol )

Have you considered using a microcontroller for IO and passing I/O up and down a serial interface? Likely add lag, etc, but might be easier from the C++, simple comm. i/o.

Seems like the oopic-r might work for this. Has built in rs232 so you can use a regular ole' serial cable, tty right out your laptop. just an idea. take it or leave it.

Thanks

Respectfully

Dan Scott

Agreed, putting aside the politics. lol

I had considered the use of microcontrollers as an interface, but the bulk of my processing is going to be fourier transforms and jocobian matrices, which are very processor hungry and I don't think I can either implement them on a micro controller or stream the output through from a serial port quick enough. I think you might of pointed me in the right direction tho. I am now looking as DSP (Digital Signal Processors) boards to use inplace of the suggested micro controller. I think I might be able to balance the processor load a bit better with this combo.

Thanks. Mutual Respect Iain

Have you looked at the USB devices such as at

Fairly inexpensive with reasonable data rates and probably more portable than PCMCIA/PCCard.

They have PCMCIA stuff as well...

Disclaimer: not associated with them in any way.

Nice one Rich.

Just the job. Going to purchase a couple of these just as soon as I can work out the export/import tax from USA to UK.

Thanks guys.