Greetings,
I developed a PCB which was a pulse counter for measuring period/frequency of a square wave. We're looking to use the NI-9361 as a pulse counter to tie it into another engineers system whom is making a similar measurement a different way, wanting to essentially validate the device producing these square waves by comparing it to the other engineer's data.
My question is that on the PCB I made, I used an Arduino, and in order to get the data nice and pretty, I had to incorporate a debounce to the signal as we got some fake pulses immediately following the initial rising edge when measuring period. This debounce is made at where the measurement is taken, but it appears that with this NI-9361 I won't really be able to do that without some hardware but the software debounce was nicer as it needed to adjust the debounce time depending on the frequency read in.
Is there a way to do this with the NI-9361? Where it perhaps ignores a second pulse in it's period/frequency calculation?
As an alternative, we were looking at the USB-6525, which just reads the data input but the frequency/period calculations would then need to be done in the code (more similar to the Arduino setup) - wanted to sanity check this before making a decision on which module to buy. Thanks.
