How can I use the CTRL 0..3 lines of the 1409 frame grabber

[MarcoPolo5]

Lukas,

The only utility/documentation we have available for creating custom camera files is the Camera File Generator. With this utility you can create new camera files or open existing camera files and add functionality. We do not directly support creating custom camera files, but provide this utitlity for those who need to do so. The camera file generator can be downloaded at:

ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/imaq/pc/ni-imaq/cfgenerator/1.1/

The help menu in this utility is all the documentation we provide for camera files currently.

I hope this helps out some. Good luck with your project!

[LukasM]

Hi Marc,

thank you for your answer. I think the Camera File Generator will not help me in this case.
The Camera File Generator is designed to produce icd files for digital interface only, not for PCI 1409.

> The help menu in this utility is all the documentation we provide for camera files currently.
I have seen that, but I am afraid, this help has too little informations to make proper configuration of icd file.

Regards

Lukas M.

[MarcoPolo5]

Lukas,

The Camera File Generator does only support NI digital boards, however, many of the programming commands for analog boards are the same.

I did dig up a little example of what a pulse generation would look like using control line 0 - maybe from this, and looking at other camera files at ftp://ftp.ni.com/support/imaq/camera_support/camera_files/analog/ you will be able to modify your 1409 camera file.

Action (PG) { //Action Pattern Generation (PG)
Line (0) { //The Line Number
Start (High) //Initial State (could be High or Low
1, 10 //In this case a pulse will be high for 1 cycle, and low for 10 cycles before returning to a high state.
}


Unfortunately, other than this, I am not able to provide you with more information on camera file programming than what is available in the Camera File Generator.

Sorry I can't be of more help. Good luck with your project!