Triggering possibilities by the NI PCI-6052E board

[gen]

Will you tell me, how to use the NI PCI-6052E board for analog and digital triggering. I want the trigger to begin the measurement, to acquire data before the trigger occurs. In other words, the board must response to a pulse input. Also I want to know other trigger capabilities of the board.
Thanks,
Gen

[jonaarch]

I am happy to let you know the PCI 6052E has both analog and digital triggering options. You can set your analog inputs to start acquisition on a rising or falling edge of your trigger pulse. If you are interested in acquiring data before your event trigger you can set up a buffer to capture pre-triggered data. Assuming you are programming with LV and Traditional DAQ you can reference the following app note:

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/2A03115556FB233386256870005BB522?opendocument

If the link above does not work, go to

www.ni.com/support

under option 3. select 'Tutorial/Application Note'
Then do a search for 'Tips and Techniques for DAQ Triggering'

If you are using the LV 7 and the express VIs to set up your DAQ, look under the
triggering tab of the express vi to set up analog vs digital trigger and buffers for pre-acquisition. If you don't have LV 7, I highly recommend it because the express vi's will help reduce your development time.

-JVH