Re: [NI PCI-6071E] AI Start Trig

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 05:40:09PM +0100, Martyn Welch wrote:
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> Hi All,
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> I am currently using a National Instruments PCI-6071E to run some experiments. 
> I need to ascertain the delay in my code between a signal being sent to an 
> external circuit and the start of a round of streamed analogue capturing 
> using a command.
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> I have been informed that it may be possible to get the card to pulse a line 
> when it starts the capture process. I can then use this to measure the time 
> between the two activites on an oscilloscope. From the documentation I have I 
> believe this to be the "PFI 0/AI START TRIG" signal. This line doesn't seem 
> to be outputting anything, I guess it is setup as input by default.

Correct.

> How can I set the line up as output?

The PFI lines are available as subdevice 7.  You simply need to
configure the correct line for output.



dave...

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David Schleef
Big Kitten LLC (http://www.bigkitten.com/) -- data acquisition on Linux

Received on 2005-07-26Z18:13:45