Tuesday, December 9, 2008

COMEDI Driver

COMEDI is short form for COntrol and MEasurement Device Interface. The name itself contains the intended functionality of it. Yes, COMEDI project develops open-source tools, libraries for data acquisition. It is having a lot of applications in Medical, instrumentation softwares. The implementation concept behind COMEDI is Linux Kernel modules. Comedi is implemented as linux kernel modules. Comedi is rich with the functionalities provided by it's libraries comedilib(in user space) and Kcomedilib(in kernel space).

You can see some of the applications that uses Comedi in the official comedi website: http://www.comedi.org/applications.html

This linux journal article briefly explains COMEDI using practical examples: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7332

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