PCI Express GPIO solution

[iceisfun]

Does anyone here know of a good PCIE GPIO card?

I would like a card with a port on the back that goes to a gpio breakout board.

[Jon86]

Do you mean GPIB? If not, what kind of port are you looking for? There's no such thing as a GPIO Port, as far as I'm aware.

[kxenos]

I use these http://www.icpdas.com/root/product/solutions/pc_based_io_board/pc_based_io_board_products.html#PCI.
Pretty robust. about 2 boards broken for about 130 PCs for 12 years.

[alm]

Unless you need the extra speed or lower latency, a GPIO interface with USB connection (eg. Labjack) may be a cheaper solution.

[amyk]

How many bits of GPIO do you need, and how fast?

[penfold]

Something like the amplicon PCIE296 sounds like its what you're after.  At 199GBP its cheaper than most Labjack offerings for higher numbers of IO lines (not that a single labjack would give you 96 lines)
If you were on regular PCI then the prices are much cheaper

[jeremy]

You should buy one based on software development practices that you are comfortable with. For example, the NI DAQ cards are nice (but expensive), I really don't like labview though. Good thing they provide ANSI C libs too. I have seen a bunch of cards which were supposed to be used with visual basic (yucky!), if that is not your flavour then don't spend your money.

[iceisfun]

Something like the amplicon PCIE296 sounds like its what you're after.  At 199GBP its cheaper than most Labjack offerings for higher numbers of IO lines (not that a single labjack would give you 96 lines)
If you were on regular PCI then the prices are much cheaper

That is awesome, exactly what I am after.

Thanks for the tip!