Software I like: Data acquisition and control

This page is very preliminary.

• Scicos-RTAI ‘provides Linux RTAI specific blocks, hard real time Comedi support and an automatic code generator that build stand alone executable code from Scicos diagrams.’ See Scicos.
• Comedi: Linux Control and Measurement Device Interface, ‘a collection of drivers for a variety of common data acquisition plug-in boards’. As of 2011 Jan 17, latest version was released 2008 Jan 28; the documentation page points to a Wiki but there's no information there.
• RTAI: RealTime Application Interface for Linux‘. As of 2011 Jan 17, latest version is 3.8 dated 2010 Feb 16.
• HART Toolbox: Hardware Access in Real-Time. Toolbox ‘can be used to generate Scicos-blocks for hardware that have a C/C++ interface. For use with RTAI; DAQ blocks are provided for COMEDI. For use with Scilab 4.1.2, Scicoslab 4.4 or Scilab 5.3.0. As of 2011 Jan 17, latest version is 0.4.2 dated 2011 Jan 11.
• EPICS: Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System, from Argonne National Laboratory. Open-source, primarily for Linux. As of 2011 Jan 17, latest release is R3.14.12, dated 2010 Nov 24. Only support for general-purpose USB devices is for National Instruments, the same as for NI PCI-bus cards, and is 3 years old.
• BioMOBIUS: ‘an open shareable technology platform … for biomedical research … freely available to users for research purposes only’. For Windows XP PRO SP3. Supports ‘a wide range of generic hardware devices, for example, TCP/IP, Serial, WDM camera devices, etc.’; I can't figure out exactly what that includes. As of 2011 Jan 17, latest announcement on Web site is dated 2008.