NI-Synch and DAQmx

[NNS-CAO]

I am currently using a PXI-6653 Card (Master) and a PXI-6651 Card (Slave) for multiple chassis synchronization. The LabView application I am developing uses a timed loop. The only method I have been able to discover to have the timed loop use the OCXO on the 6653 card is to use a DAQ card act as the interpreter between NI-Synch and DAQmx. I route the clock from the 6653 to the 6031E using NI-Synch and then use DAQmx to configure a counter on the 6031E card to use as the timing source for the timed loop.

Is it possible to eliminate the 6031E card and base the timed loop on the 6653 card?

[Teigen]

NGNN CAO,

The configuration that you are currently using, routing the 6653 through a DAQmx device to generate the Timing Source is actually the only way that one can presently use a non-DAQmx device to control a Timed Loop. Because the DAQmx driver API is used to create this Timing Source non-DAQmx devices cannot be directly used for this.

Regards,

Scott T
Applications Engineer
National Instruments