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Hardware Analog Triggering. The DaqLab
Channel #2 #4 C1 #2 D2 #18 #164 #26
supports analog triggering, whereby the
Gain x1 x8 x2 x100 x10 x1000
trigger level programmed by the user sets an Unipolar Uni Uni Uni Bi Bi Uni
analog DAC, which is then compared in or bipolar SE DE SE DE DE SE or DE
hardware to the analog input level on the Unipolar or bipolar operation Analog expansion channels
selected channel. The result is analog trig- can be programmed for each (up to 256) are sampled at the
channel dynamically by the same rate as on-board channels
ger latency which is guaranteed to be less sequencer
Any of the digital input ports
than 5 µs, significantly shorter than most Gain can be programmed for can also be sampled along
each channel dynamically by with the analog inputs
data acquisition devices. Any analog chan- the sequencer
nel can be selected as the trigger channel, Channels are sampled Any of the four counter inputs
by the sequencer can be scanned along with
including built-in or expansion channels. analog and digital inputs
The user can program both the trigger level,
as well as the edge (rising or falling).
Digital Triggering. A separate digital trig- Counter Triggering. Triggering can also two analog measurements, plus the calcu-
ger input line is provided, allowing TTL- be programmed to occur when one of the lation of the measured temperature using
level triggering, again with latencies guar- counters reaches, exceeds, or is within a linearization algorithms.
anteed to be less than 5 µs. Both the logic programmed level. Any of the built-in
PC Data Acquisition Hardware
levels (1 or 0), as well as the edge (rising or counter/totalizer channels can be Normally software-based triggering results
falling), can be programmed for the dis- programmed as a trigger source. in long latencies from the time that a
crete digital trigger input. trigger condition is detected, until the
Software-Based Triggering. Software-based actual capturing of data commences.
Digital Pattern Triggering. The DaqLab triggering differs from the modes described However, the DaqLab circumvents this
also supports digital pattern triggering, above because the readings, analog, digi- undesirable phenomenon by use of pre-
whereby the user can designate the digital tal, or counter, are interrogated by the PC trigger data. Specifically, when software-
input as the trigger port. The programmed to detect the trigger event, not in the based triggering is employed, and the PC
digital pattern, including the ability to hardware as described above. The advan- detects that a trigger condition has been
mask or ignore specific bits, is then com- tage of this mode is to permit triggering met, (which may be thousands of read-
pared to the actual input until a match is based on more complex situations, such ings later than the actual occurrence of the
detected, after which the sequencer begins as on a specific temperature, which was signal), the DaqLab driver automatically
the scan sequence. derived from the acquisition of at least looks back to the location in memory where
* DBK90 channels are scanned 1 msec/channel
No pre-trigger, post-trigger stop event. This, the simplest of modes, Ethernet DaqLab
acquires data upon receipt of the trigger, and stops acquiring upon
Notebook PC
receipt of the stop-trigger event.
Point-to-point Ethernet connection
Fixed pre-trigger with post-trigger stop event. In this mode, the
user specifies the number of pre-trigger readings to be acquired,
after which, acquisition continues until a stop-trigger event occurs. The DaqLab can also be attached to an enterprise-wide
network, where it is one of many devices on the network.
No pre-trigger, infinite post-trigger. No pre-trigger data is ac- In this application, the data transfer rate is highly dependent
quired in this mode. Instead, data is acquired beginning with on other data traffic on the network.
the trigger event, and is terminated when the operator issues a
command to halt the acquisition.
DaqLab
Fixed pre-trigger with infinite post-trigger. The user specifies the
amount of pre-trigger data to acquire, after which the system Enterprise Ethernet Network
to the start. In this mode, data continues to be acquired until the Enterprise-wide Ethernet connection
stop trigger event is detected.