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My company is developing a DNA sequencing apparatus, and we need to automate it (raising and lowering of various tubes, voltage adjustments, etc.).
We have found someone to do that for us, but the problem is that our data acquisition unit is designed around an FPGA that converts and processes data, and sends it out through an interface designed to connect to a parallel port.
And it does not take kindly to delays in reception of the data, as it just overwrites it with new data.
Out idea is to have 1 something that accumulates this data, and sends it through an ethernet controller to another PC (Preferably embedded), and that PC stores the data, and is connected to a network over which this data can be acquired by a central server, or just another computer, for processing.
My question is what kind of system would we use on the LPT/Ethernet side of things, and what kind of a PC to (store/make accesible) the data (PC104, Embedded, a small box, etc.).
Preferably the hardware cost of the total solution would run less that $500-$700.
Thank you.
We have found someone to do that for us, but the problem is that our data acquisition unit is designed around an FPGA that converts and processes data, and sends it out through an interface designed to connect to a parallel port.
And it does not take kindly to delays in reception of the data, as it just overwrites it with new data.
Out idea is to have 1 something that accumulates this data, and sends it through an ethernet controller to another PC (Preferably embedded), and that PC stores the data, and is connected to a network over which this data can be acquired by a central server, or just another computer, for processing.
My question is what kind of system would we use on the LPT/Ethernet side of things, and what kind of a PC to (store/make accesible) the data (PC104, Embedded, a small box, etc.).
Preferably the hardware cost of the total solution would run less that $500-$700.
Thank you.
