Well, I'll try to describe the best I can without giving out any "classified info." I am developing a signal generator that simulates products as they run accross the assembly line. Each of these products is defined in a buffer that is sent to the PCI6534. The length of the buffer corresponds to how many encoder counts are generated from the beginning to the end of the product(encoder counts generated by a PCI6602).
For this signal generator, I need to be able to change the length of the product on the fly. And so, I would need to change the length of the buffer before sending it to the output card.