coordinating PCI-6713 and PCI-6031E using RTSI

[vlin]

I am currently modifying a Labview 5.1 program to work on a new platform with Labview 6.1. The old system has AT-AO6 and AT-MIO16XE50 as the DAQ units while the new one has PCI-6713 and PCI-6031E.
The previous programmer used RTSI to coordinate the AO and AI for the 2 boards. RTSI0 is used as trigger line to start MIO16XE's AI and AO. He used RTSI control to connect OUT0* to RTSI0. Everything works fine on the old platform.
Now, on the new system, 6031E is waiting for RTSI0 trigger to start AO and AI. However, I am having difficulty setting up the RTSI line on the 6713 using RTSI control. There are no documentation about this on NI.com, PDF at hand or online help. I get -10403 error (deviceSupportError) when I tried
to initiate the RTSI control using the following paramters:

device -> 1
control code -> connect
board signal -> 0
trigger line -> 0
direction -> transmitter

I do not know what board signal I should use. I found no information pertaining to that. So, default value is used.
Does RTSI Control work with 6713? Should I use a different method? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

[David S]

The following is an excerpt from the LabVIEW Online Help for RTSI Control which can be viewed in LabVIEW 6.1 by selecting help >> VI function & How to help, and selecting RTSI Control. "This VI is not supported for E Series devices. For E Series devices, multiple RTSI connections can be set directly in the analog input, analog output, and counter VIs and used along with the Route Signal VI. Other RTSI connections must be made using the Route Signal VI."

LabVIEW has examples that demonstrate how to use Route Signal. In LabVIEW 6.1, Select Help >> Find Examples >> Hardware Input & Output >> DAQ >> Multiple Devices.

David Shatila
Applications Engineer
National Instruments