PID control using LabView 6i

[Buntoro]

Hallo,
We use NI PCI 6024E Card in PC with Celeron 1,1 GHz, 256 MB SDRAM,
The Card has 16 Analog input and 2 analog output. I plan to use this card as
a PID controller.
Our LabView contains the modules for motions and all the add ons to.
The question is, whether the PCI 6024E is capable to do controling, since we
have to
control the velocity of 2 mm/s with scan rate 50 S/s.
thanks

[yahugh]

I can tell you that using a PC of similar horsepower under XP Pro and a PCI-6071E I've successfully run PID loops with sample rates of 10KS/s in 100msec bursts. At first I was seeing a fairly high rate of input buffer overflows. But when I set LabVIEW's execution priority to "High" this problem all but disappeared. (At some time in the future we plan to migrate to LabVIEW RT, which I hope will cure this problem completely.) 50S/s should be a breeze. You might want to add memory. I've got 512Meg in my machine.