Re: PCI-MIO6033E timers

On Oct 5, 2004, at 9:57 PM, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 09:44 pm, you wrote:
>> On Tuesday 05 October 2004 06:17 pm, Jonathan Wang wrote:
>>> Also in ni_mio_common.c, convert_arg is limited to 16 bits although
>>> the documentation indicates that the card's counters and timers are 
>>> 24
>>> bits wide. The relevant lines are 1523 and 1524 of ni_mio_common.c 
>>> for
>>> Comedi release 0.7.68.
>>>
>>> Is this correct, or have I found a bug?
>>
>> It looks like a bug to me.  I've changed it to 24 bits.
>
> On a second look, the convert counter really is hardware limited to 16
> bits.  I've changed it back.

Yeah, it looks to be 16 bits. How about adding the ability to switch to 
the 100 kHz timebase? That would give a maximum of 0.65 sec between 
samplings (as opposed to the current maximum of 3.3 ms).

Jonathan

Received on 2004-10-06Z01:54:58