Using Teststand to locking out parts of the PXI-6289

[BenDykes]

I'm interested in using the PXI-6289 for a test bench I'm designing but I would like to know if teststand can lock out only certain parts of the PXI-6289.  The reason I ask this is because I want to use the analog inputs on the card as 5.5 digit DMMs to make multi-UUT testing faster.  But if I need to lock out the whole card, I may just go with two DMMs in parallel instead of using the 6289's 32 channels.  It would be ideal if all the functionality in this card is independent so that one execution can be using the DigIO lines while three others are accessing the analog Inputs all at the same time.

[RayFarmer]

Ben,

TestStand is a Test executive software. If you need to do something special or invoke some functionatily of a piece of hardware you will need to look at the instrument driver, if there is one. And if not generate the code using one of the TestStand supported languages.

Regards

Ray Farmer

[James M]

Hi BenDykes,

Ray is correct but I want to add a little bit more. You can do digital I/O and analog I/O at the same time, but only one task of each type (analog input, analog output, digital input, digital output) can be running at once. For instance, you can have one analog output, and one analog input running concurrently. For more discussion on this topic, I suggest you post any further questions on one of the DAQ forums.

As far as calling it simultaneously from TestStand, you will need to either write your code module in such a way that it is multi-threaded, or use one of the multi-threaded process models like batch or parallel.

Regards,