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32.\"     @(#)ad.4	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
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34.Dd June 5, 1993
35.Dt AD 4 vax
36.Os BSD 4.2
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm ad
39.Nd Data Translation A/D converter
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Cd "device ad0 at uba0 csr 0170400 vector adintr"
42.Sh DESCRIPTION
43The
44.Nm \&ad
45driver
46provides an interface to the Data Translation A/D converter.
47This is
48.Em not
49a real-time driver, but merely allows
50the user process to sample the board's channels one at a time.
51Each minor device selects a different
52.Tn A/D
53board.
54.Pp
55The driver communicates to a user process by means of
56.Xr ioctl 2 Ns s.
57The
58.Dv AD_CHAN
59.Xr ioctl
60selects which channel of the board to read.
61For example,
62.Bd -literal -offset indent
63chan = 5;
64ioctl(fd, AD_CHAN, &chan);
65.Ed
66.Pp
67selects channel 5.
68The
69.Dv AD_READ
70.Xr ioctl 2
71actually reads the data and returns it to the user
72process.
73An example is
74.Bd -literal -offset indent
75ioctl(fd, AD_READ, &data);
76.Ed
77.Sh FILES
78.Bl -tag -width /dev/adx -compact
79.It Pa /dev/ad
80.El
81.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
82None.
83.Sh HISTORY
84The
85.Nm
86driver appeared in
87.Bx 4.1 .
88