Assuming the signals are TTL (if they're not you would need to translate them), you'll want to use a counter input task to do this. Here are two different ways you could configure it:
1. Sample-clocked edge count task: Use your TDC signal as the "sample clock" and the CAD signal as the source of edges to count ("Input Terminal" on the linked example). The counter will keep a running total of edges from the time it is armed (can be triggered with a hardware signal if desired), and the count will be latched into a buffer every time a clock edge is received. Your sampled data would look like: [360, 720, 1080...]
2. Implicitly-timed period measurement task: Use your TDC as the Input Terminal for the period measurement task. You'd have to add a DAQmx Channel Property Node to specify to use the CAD signal as the counter timebase source. The counter will measure the time between successive edges of the TDC signal in terms of ticks of the CAD signal. Your sampled data would look like: [360, 360, 360 ...].
Either configuration is probably fine (whichever makes the most sense to you). Be aware that #2 will only start sampling data after the 2nd edge of the TDC signal, where as #1 will sample data on the very first edge after the counter is armed. The counter rolls over at a count of 2^32, so if you plan on running for a long time (definition of "long time" depends on the rate of your CAD signal) using #1 you should handle rollovers in software.
Best Regards,
John Passiak
