
Chapter 20 DSA Devices
DAQ Hardware Overview Guide 20-4 www.ni.com
There are two hardware trigger sources—analog or digital. The device can
receive the analog trigger from any one of the input channels, even if that
channel is not included in the scan list of the acquisition. The analog trigger
circuitry generates a trigger when the selected input channel reaches a
specified slope and level. If you want a digital trigger, you can configure the
device to receive the trigger from the digital I/O connector or from the
RTSIbus.
When using a digital trigger, notice that the first sample after the trigger
does not appear in the acquisition buffer until 42 scans have been acquired.
This means that in posttrigger mode the acquisition buffer contains
42 pretrigger samples when the acquisition is finished. This behavior is a
feature of the digital antialiasing filter in the converter and cannot be
disabled.
PCI-4451, PCI-4453, and NI 4551 Analog Output
Channels
The PCI-4451, PCI-4453, and NI 4551 contain simultaneously updated
analog output channels based on delta-sigma DACs. The converters
accept 18-bit resolution samples. On the PCI-4451 and NI- 4551, each
channel also has software configurable attenuation settings of 0, 20, and
40 dB.
The converters continuously generate samples while the update clock
is running. A DDS clock generation circuit generates an extremely stable
clock signal that can drive the converters at update rates up to 51.2 kHz in
increments of 200 µHz. The anti-imaging filter in the converters adjusts to
the update rate to reject frequency components from frequencies above the
update rate. Because the converters require the stability of the DDS clock,
you cannot supply an external clock. Clock signals can be synchronized
between multiple 445X and 455X devices over the RTSIbus.
Waveform Generation
The waveform generation (WFM) functions can write values to either one or
both analog output channels continuously using the onboard DDS clock to
update the DACs at regular intervals. The values are contained in a buffer
that you allocate and fill. The resultant voltages produced at the analog
output channels depend on the value of the numbers in the buffer.
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