National Instruments offers a variety of high-performance and low-cost instrument control kits for Sun workstations and acquisition boards for the Sun SPARCstation. The company's GPIB interface kits include plug-in boards, cables, and NI-488M multitasking Solaris driver software that turns SPARCstations, Sun-3, and Sun-4 workstations into IEEE 488.2 controllers. The company's SB-A2200 is a high-performance dynamic signal acquisition board with high-accuracy audio frequency analog input/output for the SBus. The company's SB-MIO-16E-4 is a multifunction data acquisition board with analog input and analog output channels, and digital input/output lines. National Instruments also manufactures kits that can link a SPARCstation directly to VMEbus or VXIbus instruments or computers.

Price: $995-$3,700

Compatibility: Sun-3, Sun-4, SPARCstation