Hey Brad,
Yes you would want to put the data acquisition part into the
producer loop and the rest of your code in the consumer loop. Also if you do
not use the DAQ Assistant then you will need to use the different DAQmx subVI’s
to set up and read from you data acquisition task. The benefit to using these
is that you can run the task creation and configuration VIs(create channel,
timing, etc..) once before the producer loop then only have a DAQmx read VI in
the producer loop and finally close the task after the loop finishes executing.
As far as shift registers go you can definitely eliminate all
the array local variables and replace them with a shift register for the array.
This will also let you remove the large stacked sequence structure that is used
to initialize the array, because you can initialize the shift register storing
the array using data flow instead of using a sequence structure to initialize
the variable.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Nathan
NI Chief Hardware Engineer
