AD(4) | Device Drivers Manual (vax) | AD(4)

# NAME

`ad` — Data Translation A/D converter

# SYNOPSIS

`ad0 at uba0 csr 0170400 vector adintr`

# DESCRIPTION

NOTE: This driver has not been ported from 4.4BSD yet.

The `ad` driver provides an interface to the Data Translation A/D converter. This is not a real-time driver, but merely allows the user process to sample the board's channels one at a time. Each minor device selects a different A/D board.

The driver communicates to a user process by means of ioctl(2)s. The `AD_CHAN` ioctl(2) selects which channel of the board to read. For example,

    chan = 5;
    ioctl(fd, AD_CHAN, &chan);

selects channel 5. The `AD_READ` ioctl(2) actually reads the data and returns it to the user process. An example is

    ioctl(fd, AD_READ, &data);

# FILES

/dev/ad

# DIAGNOSTICS

None.

# HISTORY

The `ad` driver appeared in 4.1BSD.

June 5, 1993 | NetBSD 10.99