ADDI-DATA GmbH is a reliable partner for innovative industrial measurement and automation in numerous industrial areas: automotive and metal industry, engine building industry, tailor-made machinery, aircraft and chemicals industry, etc. They are used for quality control, process control, signal switching, data acquisition, motion control or position acquisition. It offers a wide range of PCI boards, which are especially designed for the reliable use in harsh industrial environments. The measurement boards are equipped with a lot of protective features, such as protection against short circuits and overvoltage, optical isolation, input and output filters, etc. Numerous drivers for GNU/Linux operating system as well as samples are included in the section Download. Some features are;

Protective measures:

• Optical isolation from 500 V to 1000 V;
• Separation between analog and digital signals;
• Protection against short-circuits, overtemperature and overvoltage;
• Input and output filters;
• Industry-standard SUB-D connectors.

The product range is:

• Interference-free PC boards (PCI, PCI Express, PC/104-PLUS, CompactPCI bus);
• Real-time open source PAC system MSX-Box;
• Intelligent Ethernet I/O modules.

For more information about products of ADDI-DATA, click here. NOTE: support for ADDI-DATA' boards are actively developed in the current version of the Linux kernel. Models currently supported/developed are APCI1710, APCI1032, APCI1516, APCI1564, APCI2016 and so on. This driver are on the path linux-<version 2.6.xx.yy>/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/addi-data added to the staging/ directory which means they're not just experimental, but also totally unstable and not suited at all for users.