Perfectly Scientific, Inc. announces version 1.1 of their developer tools supporting the bTop-1 board. This release adds support for the UNIX command line, C and RealBasic in addition to it's native Objective C environment.
These single call UNIX (or C) API's make it even easier than the original Cocoa interface to acquire your data or control your real world objects. Communicating with the bTop1 board using UNIX or C, a server now runs in the background so that initialization and monitoring of your bTop1 boards is handled for you, allowing you to concentrate on building your own app and not spending your development time supporting the bTop1.
Included in the developer tools are several example applications, a
Cookbook
and full source code. The software is designed to get
the user up and going as soon as possible in developing lab
applications.
The bTop-1 lab acquisition and control system from Perfectly
Scientific, Inc. was designed specifically for Mac OS X. The card
provides a new, easy way to connect your Mac to the physical world,
and do so with great economy and efficiency. bTop
is an acronym
for giving one's computer a laboratory bench-top,
beyond the
usual desktop.
The bTop-1 board includes its own processor with
dedicated RAM. The board uses full-speed USB 2.0 offering 16 channels
of digital I/O: 8 channels of 12 bit A-to-D and 8 channels of 8 bit D-
to-A. By using its Cocoa, UNIX, C or RealBasic API's, prototyping and
development of custom applications is simple and fast.
The bTop-1 provides the best value for your data acquisition and control needs by offering 16 digital I/O channels, 12 bit D to A resolution and the highest analog channel count of any USB data acquisition/control card available for the Macintosh platform at one of the lowest price points.
bTop Developer Tools 1.1 with full source code including firmware source are distributed under the BSD license and may be downloaded at no cost from: www.perfsci.com/hardware.htm.
Perfectly Scientific, Inc. was founded in 1997 and specializes in custom algorithm development, while also carrying a line of scientific products.
For more information contact: Perfectly Scientific, Inc., 3754 SE
Knight St., Portland, OR. 97202
(503) 774-4738, Fax: (503) 774-1820, email: contact us
bTopis an acronym for giving one's computer a laboratory
benchtop,beyond the usual
desktop.The bTop-1 board includes its own processor with dedicated RAM. The board uses full-speed USB 2.0 with 16 channels of digital I/O: 8 channels of 12 bit A-to-D and 8 channels of 8 bit D-to-A. By using its Cocoa API and OS X drivers, prototyping and development of custom applications is simple and fast. The bTop-1 board draws all its power from the USB port. Future expansion is provided for by way of an I2C bus. The bTop-1 ships with the required USB cable.
Cookbookand full source code on CD. The software is designed to get the user up and going as soon as possible in developing lab applications. The software can be also downloaded at www.perfsci.com