Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 17:01:11 -0500
From: Damon Register
documentation for it but it does not appear that he has. I got it from the link that you provided but it doesn't even show any info with Quickview.
What is this hardware card? If it works under Linux that could be a way The card is a MIL-STD-1553 bus interface card. I keep bugging then for Linux drivers but I think it hasn't been done yet.
to solve my problem. Do you have a url pointing to more information for http://www.mil-1553.com
it? Any idea of the cost? $4800. The main purpose of this card is 1553 interface and the timer just happened to be a fringe benefit for me. This would almost certainly not be of any value for what you are doing. Likely there are other hardware options that are more suitable for you. I remember that some flight test people here were using some sort of time generator card in the PCs they were using to
collect flight data
ticks and just summing them. Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Any If it is anything like the ticks that Windows uses, they aren't very
precise so that is why I am using the alternate hardware timer. I remember somewhere around 7 years ago I was working with a DOS program that was able to read a hardware clock chip to get microsecond precision. I never tried that in the 32 bit Windows environment or in Linux but perhaps you could adapt the code? The above mentioned clock chip seems to be a standard part of an Intel class PC. If you would like, I can try to dig up that DOS C code and you could try to adapt it. Damon Register