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Table of Contents
Preface
About this User's Guide ....................................................................................................................... 7
What you will learn from this user's guide ......................................................................................................... 7
Conventions in this user's guide ........................................................................................................................................ 7
Where to find more information ......................................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 1
Introducing the PCI-DAS6013 and PCI-DAS6014 ............................................................................... 8
Overview: PCI-DAS6013 and PCI-DAS6014 features ...................................................................................... 8
Software features ................................................................................................................................................ 8
Chapter 2
Installing the PCI-DAS6013 and PCI-DAS6014 ................................................................................... 9
What comes with your PCI-DAS6013 and PCI-DAS6014 shipment? ............................................................... 9
Hardware .......................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Additional documentation ................................................................................................................................................. 9
Optional components ........................................................................................................................................................ 9
Unpacking the PCI-DAS6013 and PCI-DAS6014 ........................................................................................... 10
Installing the software ...................................................................................................................................... 10
Installing the hardware ..................................................................................................................................... 10
Configuring the hardware ................................................................................................................................. 11
Differential input mode ....................................................................................................................................................11
Single-ended input mode .................................................................................................................................................11
Non-referenced single-ended input mode ........................................................................................................................11
Connecting the board for I/O operations .......................................................................................................... 12
Connectors, cables – main I/O connector .........................................................................................................................12
Pin out – main I/O connector ...........................................................................................................................................13
Field wiring and signal termination .................................................................................................................................16
Chapter 3
Functional Details ............................................................................................................................... 17
Basic architecture ............................................................................................................................................. 17
Auxiliary input & output interface ...................................................................................................................................17
DAQ signal timing............................................................................................................................................ 20
SCANCLK signal ............................................................................................................................................................20
A/D START TRIGGER signal ........................................................................................................................................20
A/D STOP TRIGGER signal ...........................................................................................................................................21
STARTSCAN signal ........................................................................................................................................................22
SSH signal .......................................................................................................................................................................22
A/D CONVERT signal ....................................................................................................................................................23
A/D PACER GATE signal ...............................................................................................................................................23
A/D EXTERNAL TIMEBASE signal .............................................................................................................................23
A/D STOP signal .............................................................................................................................................................24
Waveform generation timing signals (PCI-DAS6014 only) ............................................................................. 24
D/A START TRIGGER signal ........................................................................................................................................24
D/A CONVERT signal ....................................................................................................................................................25
D/A EXTERNAL TIMEBASE signal .............................................................................................................................26
General-purpose counter signal timing ............................................................................................................. 26
CTR1 CLK signal ............................................................................................................................................................26
CTR1 GATE signal .........................................................................................................................................................27
CTR1 OUT signal ............................................................................................................................................................27
CTR2 CLK signal ............................................................................................................................................................27
CTR2 GATE signal .........................................................................................................................................................28
CTR2 OUT signal ............................................................................................................................................................28