How to externally drive the SCANCLOCK and *CONVERT

[MG]

Page 4-21 of the manual for my board (PCI-6036E) shows the PFI2/*CONVERT signal being driven externally.

Page 4-26 says I can select any PFI pin as the source for the STARTSCAN signal as well.

I want to drive the STARTSCAN signal and the *CONVERT signal externally from my device under test.

So far I have been unable to do this from LabVIEW, even though I have located the Route Signal VI and have tried several choices.

[Spencer S.]

Greetings,

As it says in the user manual for the PCI-6036E, any PFI line can input the CONVERT or STARTSCAN signals. AI Clock Config is the VI you will use to assign these signals to PFI lines. Two of the examples installed with LabVIEW demonstrate the use of AI Clock Config to configure an external Channel Clock (CONVERT) or Scan Clock (STARTSCAN).

Acquire N Scans - ExtChanClk.vi
Acquire N Scans - ExtScanClk.vi

The documentation for these examples provides detailed information regarding their use.

Good luck with your application.

Spencer S.

[MG]

I got this portion of my problem solved using the ExtChanClk.vi example. My external 100KHz clock is going to pin 43 (PFI2/CONVERT*) and my external trigger is going to pin 11 (PFI0/TRIG1). I am now getting the analog data I want.

Thanks