I did something like this as a term project for an electronics class. My version was a PC/AT card, but it shouldn't be that hard to do a PCI version. It's not that expensive (around $150 for all the parts, the blank card being the most expensive) and fairly simple to construct. And it has a little sine wave generator on it also.
The idea was to run the signal into an ADC, then run the output bits through octal line drivers and transceivers (74LS244's and 245's) connected to the system bus. Bus commands were interpreted using a bunch of logic gates (real cheap). I guess without getting into too much detail, I'll just throw out other part numbers: a 688, 240's, 04's & 08's, and the test oscillator (sine wave generator) built out of a DAC and a 4046 voltage controlled oscillator.
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I did something like this as a term project for an electronics class. My version was a PC/AT card, but it shouldn't be that hard to do a PCI version. It's not that expensive (around $150 for all the parts, the blank card being the most expensive) and fairly simple to construct. And it has a little sine wave generator on it also.
The idea was to run the signal into an ADC, then run the output bits through octal line drivers and transceivers (74LS244's and 245's) connected to the system bus. Bus commands were interpreted using a bunch of logic gates (real cheap). I guess without getting into too much detail, I'll just throw out other part numbers: a 688, 240's, 04's & 08's, and the test oscillator (sine wave generator) built out of a DAC and a 4046 voltage controlled oscillator.
Before you know it, John Ascroft will be putting spintronic nanospies into our Mountain Dew and Dr. Norton will tell us our bloodstream is fine.