GNURadio, Scilab, Xcos and COMEDI for Data Acquisition and Control: An Open Source Alternative to LabVIEW*

Abstract This article describes an attempt to create an open source equivalent to the data acquisition and control software LabVIEW. The proposed solution uses GNURadio, OpenCV, Scilab, Xcos and COMEDI on Linux. GNURadio gives a convenient graphical front end. The computations can be carried out using OpenCV or Scilab and Xcos. The device drivers given in COMEDI are used to access real time data. We also present PyGTK based improved graphical user interface for GNURadio.

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