.TH COMEDI_BOARD_INFO "1" "May 2012" "comedi_board_info" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
comedi_board_info \- reports useful information about COMEDI devices
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B comedi_board_info
[\fIOPTIONS\fR] COMEDI_DEVICE
.SH DESCRIPTION
This program reads information about a comedi device and
displays it in a human-readable form. It also
probes the asynchronous acquisition by calling the function
probe_cmd_generic_timed
which provides information about the maximum sampling rate of
the board
and how the card acquires multiple channels (e.g. at once or
one by one).
.TP
\-n NUMBER_OF_CHANNELS
Requests the number of channels for the asynchronous acquisition.
This might influence the maximum sampling rate and the mode how
the comedi device samples the channels.
If the number is higher than the available
channels this will be corrected downwards to the number of available
channels.
.TP
\-F SAMPLING_RATE 
Requests a sampling rate for the asynchronous
acquisition. By default this is set to comedi's highest sampling rate
(1GHz) so that the driver is forced to reduce it and will 
return the maximum possible sampling rate. This option is only provided
for driver testing and for drivers which do not return the highest
sampling rate.
.TP
\-v
Verbose output.
.TP
\-h
Shows a brief help screen.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
More documentation can be found on
http://www.comedi.org/
.SH AUTHOR
comedi_board_info was written by David Schleef <ds@schleef.org> and Bernd Porr <berndporr@f2s.com>.