
Based on this article (https://natinst.force.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019LabSAE)
TimeOut >= SamplesToRead/SampleRate
- what does SamplesToRead correspond to in association with NI High Speed Digitizers? The following 2 parameters could mean the same thing:
- Record length (for example a 1000 sample record)
- number of samples (always defaulted to -1 to acquire all samples available)
- My current sampling rate = 512M and RecordLength = 2.1M. Given these parameters, duration for a single shot acquisition should be 4.10156 ms. So TimeOut should be > 4.1 ms. I have added 10ms additional overhead to this as shown in figure below.

- The acquisition was working well (was able to fetch 500 records and write to disk) before I closed the VI and re-opened to run another sequence. And it throws this error.
Any advise is appreciated.
NI System Configuration:
- NI PXIe-1071, 4-Slot 3U PXI Express Chassis , 1 GB/Slot throughput, Part Number: 781368-01
- NI PXIe-PCIe8381,x8 Gen2 MXI-Express for PXI Express Interface,3m, Part Number: 782522-01
- PXIe-5160 PXI Oscilloscope, 500 MHz, 10 bits, 2.5 GS/s, 2 Channels, 64 MB, Part Number: 782621-01
- Astronics PXIe-1209 2-Channel, 100 MHz PXI Pulse Generator, Part Number: 785033-01