Amplicon has introduced the PCI-9221 from ADLINK, a combined multifunction data acquisition and motion control card, for under £200 that is able to sample analogue signals at up to 250kS/s, with a resolution of 16-bits. Along with the 16 single-ended or eight differential analogue input channels, the PCI-9221 has two analogue outputs which are suitable for generating dc voltage signals. A useful feature of this board is its programmable digital I/O, which may be used in one of the following four modes; eight digital inputs and four digital outputs; two 32-bit counter/timers; two encoder inputs; two PWM (pulse width modulation) outputs. The PCI-9221 is supplied with drivers for VB, C/C++, Delphi, .Net, MATLAB and LabVIEW.