By using the DSP technology of sound card and the multithreading technology of LabVIEW, a low-cost design scheme for data acquisition and analysis based on sound card is proposed, which has the advantages of simple implementation, friendly interface, stable and reliable performance, etc. The acquisition and analysis of audio signals and data storage and reloading are realized in the LabVIEW environment. A real-time, high signal-to-noise ratio multi-channel data acquisition system can be formed by configuring multiple sound cards on the PC. It can be extended to various fields such as speech recognition, environmental noise monitoring and laboratory measurement, and has broad application prospects. Keywords: sound card; data acquisition; signal analysis; LabVIEW; multithreading Currently, the data acquisition cards on the market all contain complete data acquisition circuits and computer interface circuits, but their prices are basically proportional to their performance and are generally expensive. With the maturity of DSP (digital signal processing) technology, PC sound card itself has become an excellent data acquisition system. It has both A/D and D/A conversion functions. It is not only inexpensive, but also has good compatibility, stable performance, flexible and universal, and convenient software, especially driver upgrades. The transition from ISA bus to PCI bus solves the bottleneck problem of data exchange between sound card and system in the past, and also gives full play to the performance of DSP chip. Moreover, the sound card uses DMA (direct memory access) to transfer data, which greatly reduces the CPU occupancy rate. The 16-bit A/D conversion accuracy of a general sound card is higher than that of a common 12-bit A/D card, which is high enough for many engineering measurements and scientific experiments, but its price is much cheaper than the latter. If a sound card is used as a data acquisition device, a low-cost and high-performance data acquisition and analysis system can be formed. Of course, it is only suitable for collecting signals in the audio domain, that is, the input signal frequency must be within the audio range of 20~20000Hz. If you need to process DC or slow-changing signals, you need to cooperate with other technologies.
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