Control of analog to digital conversion for analog I/O boards

A computer-readable medium holding instructions for controlling a conversion of a signal from an analog form to a digital form with reduced latency, the medium comprising one or more instructions for:

• applying an analog signal to an input of an analog-to-digital converter, wherein there exists one analog-to-digital converter for each analog signal channel;
• simultaneously initiating a plurality of analog-to-digital converters to sample a plurality of analog signal channels simultaneously, without creating analog signal channel time skew;
• converting the analog signal into a converted digital data using the analog-to-digital converter without requiring a software command to initiate a conversion;
• buffering the converted digital data in a first level of a buffer;
• pushing a stored converted digital data from the first level of the buffer to a second level of the buffer;
• and
• retrieving the stored converted digital data from the second level of the buffer.