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    Programming Counter/Timer Tasks For Driverlinx Supported Boards in Labview

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    This document provides instructions for programming counter/timer tasks for DriverLINX supported boards in LabVIEW. It describes: 1) A bundle is used to control the counter/timer task type and timing parameters. The bundle contains 8 values including clock source, edge, gating, mode, output behavior, pulses, period, and onCount. 2) One technique is to unbundle and rebundle the information to allow a more intuitive front panel control like square wave frequency. The bundle scaling from microseconds can be done on the wiring diagram. 3) The bundle values correspond to the ActiveX or DLL API used in Visual Basic or C/C++, providing examples of how to configure the bundle to match

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    This document provides instructions for programming counter/timer tasks for DriverLINX supported boards in LabVIEW. It describes: 1) A bundle is used to control the counter/timer task type and timing parameters. The bundle contains 8 values including clock source, edge, gating, mode, output behavior, pulses, period, and onCount. 2) One technique is to unbundle and rebundle the information to allow a more intuitive front panel control like square wave frequency. The bundle scaling from microseconds can be done on the wiring diagram. 3) The bundle values correspond to the ActiveX or DLL API used in Visual Basic or C/C++, providing examples of how to configure the bundle to match

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    This document provides instructions for programming counter/timer tasks for DriverLINX supported boards in LabVIEW. It describes: 1) A bundle is used to control the counter/timer task type and timing parameters. The bundle contains 8 values including clock source, edge, gating, mode, output behavior, pulses, period, and onCount. 2) One technique is to unbundle and rebundle the information to allow a more intuitive front panel control like square wave frequency. The bundle scaling from microseconds can be done on the wiring diagram. 3) The bundle values correspond to the ActiveX or DLL API used in Visual Basic or C/C++, providing examples of how to configure the bundle to match

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    Programming Counter/Timer Tasks For Driverlinx Supported Boards in Labview

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    Jack Eito Neo
    This document provides instructions for programming counter/timer tasks for DriverLINX supported boards in LabVIEW. It describes: 1) A bundle is used to control the counter/timer task type and timing parameters. The bundle contains 8 values including clock source, edge, gating, mode, output behavior, pulses, period, and onCount. 2) One technique is to unbundle and rebundle the information to allow a more intuitive front panel control like square wave frequency. The bundle scaling from microseconds can be done on the wiring diagram. 3) The bundle values correspond to the ActiveX or DLL API used in Visual Basic or C/C++, providing examples of how to configure the bundle to match

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    Programming Counter/Timer Tasks for DriverLINX Supported Boards in

    LabVIEW
    Below is shown a typical wiring diagram from LabVIEW for a counter/timer (CT) task for a
    DriverLINX supported board.
    A bundle is used to control which CT task type (Square Wave Generation, Event Counting,
    Frequency Measurement, Pulse Generation, etc.) will be performed as well as the timing
    parameters of the task (frequency of the Square Wave, etc.).

    The names of the eight values within the bundle are, in top to bottom order: clock, clock edge,
    gate, mode, output, pulses, period and onCount.
    Clock: pacing source either internal or external
    Clock Edge: rising or falling edge of Clock (not used)
    Gate: enable or disable gating. If enabled, select level or edge gating
    Mode: one of the Task based CT operations implemented by DriverLINX
    Output: behavior of the output pin of the selected CT channel
    Pulses: either single or continuous
    Period: controls timing. Mode dependent. In LabVIEW, is expressed in microseconds.
    OnCount: controls timing of delays or pulse duration. Mode dependent. In LabVIEW, is
    expressed in microseconds.
    One typical technique used is to unbundled and then re-bundle the information. As the wiring
    diagram above shows, this allows placement of a single, more intuitive control on the
    applications front panel (Square Wave Freq). The user can input the desired frequency of the
    square wave on the front panel. The scaling for time expressed in microseconds required by the
    VIs implementation can be done on the wiring diagram.
    With the exception of clock edge, these values correspond to the ActiveX or DLL API of the
    DriverLINX driver that would be used from Visual Basic or C/C++ languages as shown below.

    VB code:

    C/C++ code:

    NOTE: These VB and C/C++ code fragments do not show all the necessary code. For example, opening the driver,
    closing the driver and hardware initialization steps are not shown.

    If a functional VB or C++ example exists for a given mode of operation for a board, then that code
    could be used as a guideline for how the bundle in the LabVIEW program should be configured to
    carry out the same operation.

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