kacq - Summary

This group is not part of the GNU Project.

kacq is a C program to perform data acquisition with the GNU/Linux operating system. This program was developed to record data from electrophysiological experiments.

kacq uses the comedi drivers and the comedilib library to get data from supported acquisition devices. The program is therefore not bound to a single acquisition device but can be used with a variety of AD cards supported by the comedi project. kacq has an oscilloscope to display the acquired data. The visual interface of kacq was written using the gtk+ library.

Here are some of kacq's features:

1) Can record up to at least 64 channels (depending on hardware).
2) User can rewind the oscilloscope to re-examined recently acquired signals.
3) Independent threads for acquisition, recording and oscilloscope to take advantage of multi-core processors.
4) kacq can run in a terminal mode without the graphical interface.
5) Control recording and visualize data from a remote computer with ssh -X.

See the comedi website (www.comedi.org) to know which acquisition devices can be used with kacq. The code might need some small modifications.

Registration Date: Mon 06 Dec 2010 10:58:09 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 4 - Beta