What is the difference between waveform data and the common numeric data? Whenever I am doing analog data acqusition, the board always asks me whether I want to set the acquired data type to be waveform or DBL. For one specific data source, will there be big difference for the two choices? If I choose to acquire waveform data, how to define the sample rate? I mean what I will get from one "waveform sample"? Will it be just one number or a set of numbers which contributes to one "wave"?
Have you looked at the waveform data type? It's just a cluster with the DBL array you always get plus the addition of a start timestamp and a dt. This is very useful in a lot of applications such as doing spectral analysis. And of course a graph will show the correct interval between samples. You have to modify the graph properties when you acquire just numerics.
OK. So both "waveform" and "DBL" should work for the data acquisition, they both carry the same data, the only difference is that wave form data has the extra time information of the samples, right?
