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+.\"
+.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Jamil J. Weatherbee
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
+.\"
+.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+.\" are met:
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+.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+.\" 3. The name of the author may not be used to endorse or promote products
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+.\"
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR
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+.\" IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT,
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+.\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF
+.\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+.\"
+.\" Industrial Computer Source model AIO8-P
+.\" 8 channel, moderate speed analog to digital converter board with
+.\" 128 channel MUX capability via daisy-chained AT-16P units
+.\" alog.c, character device driver, last revised December 9 1997
+.\" See http://www.indcompsrc.com/products/data/html/aio8g-p.html
+.\"
+.\" Written by: Jamil J. Weatherbee <jamil@freebsd.org>
+.\"
+.\"
+.Dd December 9, 1997
+.Dt ALOG 4 i386
+.Os FreeBSD
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm alog
+.Nd
+Industrial Computer Source AIO8-P driver
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Cd "device alog0 at isa? port 0x260 tty irq 5 vector alogintr"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+This driver supports the Industrial Computer Source \fIAIO8-P 8-Channel
+12-Bit Analog Input board\fP.
+.Pp
+This board provides 8 12 bit, single-ended analog input ports.
+The driver also directly provides support for up to 8 daisy chained
+\fIAT16-P Programmable Analog Multiplexers with 16 Differential Inputs\fP.
+This makes it possible to sample up to 128 differential channels with a single
+interface board.
+Use of at least one \fIAT16-P\fP is highly recommended as the \fIAIO8-P\fP
+offers no signal conditioning options and only operates in a -5 to +5 Volt
+input range. However, if you wish to use the \fIAIO8-P\fP standalone,
+insert the following into your kernel
+.Xr config 8
+file:
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+options ALOG_CHANNELS=8
+.Ed
+.Pp
+Selection of the input port is through the minor number:
+.Pp
+.Bd -literal -offset indent
+The 8 bit minor number format is UCCCCMMM, where
+ U: board unit (0-1)
+CCCC: external multiplexer channel (0-15) (on AT-16P units)
+ MMM: internal multiplexer channel (0-7) (on AIO8-P card)
+.Ed
+.Pp
+.Xr devfs 5
+device node names are of the form: alog[0-1][a-p][0-7]
+.Pp
+.Sh IOCTL
+The following
+.Xr ioctl 2
+calls apply to
+.Nm
+devices. Their declaration can be found in the header files
+.Pa <sys/alogio.h>
+and
+.Pa <sys/dataacq.h>
+.Bl -tag -width AD_MICRO_PERIOD_SET
+.It Dv AD_MICRO_PERIOD_SET
+Takes a pointer to a long argument specifying the number of microseconds
+between samples. Half of this is used as the external multiplexer
+settling time and the other half as conversion time.
+.It Dv AD_MICRO_PERIOD_GET
+Takes a pointer to a long argument and returns the current number of
+microseconds between samples.
+.It Dv AD_NCHANS_GET
+Takes a pointer to an integer and returns the number of channels the board
+supports. This should be 8 for a standalone \fIAIO8-P\fP or 128 for any
+other setup.
+.It Dv AD_FIFOSIZE_GET
+Takes a pointer to an integer and returns the size of the fifo in
+entries. The compile time option ALOG_FIFOSIZE is by default set to 64.
+.It Dv AD_FIFO_TRIGGER_GET
+Takes a pointer to an integer and returns the minimum number of entries a
+fifo must contain to cause
+.Xr poll 2
+to return. This by default is set to 1.
+.It Dv AD_FIFO_TRIGGER_SET
+Takes a pointer to an integer specifying the minimum number of entries a
+fifo must contain to cause
+.Xr poll 2
+to return.
+.It Dv AD_START
+Starts the clocked accumulation of sample values into a channel's driver fifo.
+When a channel is first opened its software fifo is initialized in the
+stopped state. This is to prevent high sample clocks from overrunning the
+fifos before the user is ready to read from the channel. The driver
+automatically performs an AD_START when the user issues the first read,
+except for channels opened with the O_NONBLOCK flag which must explicitly
+have an AD_START issued.
+.It Dv AD_STOP
+Stops the clocked accumulation of sample values into a channel's driver fifo.
+.Sh BUGS
+On the \fIAIO8-P\fP, interrupt driven conversion (the only type
+supported by the
+.Nm
+driver) is facilitated through 8253 timer #2. In order for interrrupts to
+be generated you must connect line 6 to line 24 (counter 2 output to
+interrupt input) and line 23 to line 29 (counter 2 gate to +5VDC).
+The design of the \fIAIO8-P\fP precludes the use of programmable
+gain control.
+.Pp
+Use the combination of non-blocking i/o,
+.Xr poll 2
+and a custom fifo trigger
+wherever possible, especially with large numbers of open channels.
+Using this method, multichannel sample rates as high as 16,000 samples/sec
+have been observed.
+.Pp
+Sample rates lower than 32 Hz are not supported.
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Bd -literal
+http://www.indcompsrc.com/products/data/html/aio8g-p.html
+http://www.indcompsrc.com/products/data/html/at16-p.html
+.Ed
+.Sh AUTHOR
+Jamil J. Weatherbee <jamil@freebsd.org>.
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