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National Instruments DAQ PCI-6110E User Manual - Hardware Overview

Manual is about: Multifunction I/O Boards for PCI Bus Computers

Summary of DAQ PCI-6110E

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    Pci-6110e/6111e user manual multifunction i/o boards for pci bus computers april 1998 edition part number 321759b-01 © copyright 1998 national instruments corporation. All rights reserved. Pci_e.Book page 1 thursday, june 25, 1998 12:55 pm.

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  • Page 3: Important Information

    Important information warranty the pci-6110e/6111e boards are warranted against defects in materials and workmanship for a period of one year from the date of shipment, as evidenced by receipts or other documentation. National instruments will, at its option, repair or replace equipment that proves ...

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    © national instruments corporation v pci-6110e/6111e user manual table of contents about this manual organization of this manual ........................................................................................ Xi conventions used in this manual...................................................

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    Table of contents pci-6110e/6111e user manual vi © national instruments corporation analog output .............................................................................................................. 3-5 analog trigger ...........................................................................

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    Table of contents © national instruments corporation vii pci-6110e/6111e user manual general-purpose timing signal connections ................................................ 4-29 gpctr0_source signal.............................................................. 4-29 gpctr0_gate signal ...............

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    Table of contents pci-6110e/6111e user manual viii © national instruments corporation figures figure 1-1. The relationship between the programming environment, ni-daq, and your hardware ............................................................... 1-4 figure 3-1. Pci-6110e block diagram .............

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    Table of contents © national instruments corporation ix pci-6110e/6111e user manual figure 4-27. Gpctr0_gate signal timing in edge-detection mode ................... 4-31 figure 4-28. Gpctr0_out signal timing .............................................................. 4-31 figure 4-29. Gpctr1_sou...

  • Page 9: Organization of This Manual

    © national instruments corporation xi pci-6110e/6111e user manual about this manual this manual describes the electrical and mechanical aspects of the 611x e family of boards and contains information concerning their operation and programming. The 611x e family of boards includes: • pci-6110e • pci-...

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    About this manual pci-6110e/6111e user manual xii © national instruments corporation • appendix c, common questions , contains a list of commonly asked questions and their answers relating to usage and special features of your 611x eboard. • appendix d, customer communication, contains forms you can...

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    About this manual © national instruments corporation xiii pci-6110e/6111e user manual monospace text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enter from the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples. This font also is used for the proper names of ...

  • Page 12: Related Documentation

    About this manual pci-6110e/6111e user manual xiv © national instruments corporation documentation or the ni-daq documentation to help you write your application. If you have a large, complicated system, it is worthwhile to look through the software documentation before you configure your hardware. ...

  • Page 13: Introduction

    © national instruments corporation 1-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual chapter 1 introduction this chapter describes your 611x e board, lists what you need to get started, describes the optional software and optional equipment, and explains how to unpack your 611x e board. About the 611 x e boards thank...

  • Page 14: What You Need to Get Started

    Chapter 1 introduction pci-6110e/6111e user manual 1-2 © national instruments corporation and a ribbon cable to route timing and trigger signals between several functions on as many as five daq boards in your computer. Detailed specifications of the 611x e board are in appendix a, specifications. Wh...

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    Chapter 1 introduction © national instruments corporation 1-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual labview data acquisition vi library, a series of vis for using labview with national instruments daq hardware, is included with labview. The labview data acquisition vi library is functionally equivalent to ni-...

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    Chapter 1 introduction pci-6110e/6111e user manual 1-4 © national instruments corporation ni-daq also internally addresses many of the complex issues between the computer and the daq hardware such as programming interrupts and dma controllers. Ni-daq maintains a consistent software interface among i...

  • Page 17: Optional Equipment

    Chapter 1 introduction © national instruments corporation 1-5 pci-6110e/6111e user manual optional equipment national instruments offers a variety of products to use with the 611x e board, including cables, connector blocks, and other accessories, as follows: • cables and cable assemblies • connecto...

  • Page 18: Unpacking

    Chapter 1 introduction pci-6110e/6111e user manual 1-6 © national instruments corporation the following list gives recommended part numbers for connectors that mate to the i/o connector on the 611x eboard: • honda 68-position, solder cup, female connector (part number pcs-e68fs) • honda backshell (p...

  • Page 19: Installation and

    © national instruments corporation 2-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual chapter 2 installation and configuration this chapter explains how to install and configure your 611x e board. Software installation install your software before you install the 611x e board. Refer to the appropriate release notes in...

  • Page 20: Board Configuration

    Chapter 2 installation and configuration pci-6110e/6111e user manual 2-2 © national instruments corporation 5. Insert the 611x e board into a 5 v pci slot. Gently rock the board to ease it into place. It may be a tight fit, but do not force the board into place. 6. If required, screw the mounting br...

  • Page 21: Hardware Overview

    © national instruments corporation 3-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual chapter 3 hardware overview this chapter presents an overview of the hardware functions on your 611x eboard. Figure 3-1 shows a block diagram for the pci-6110e board. Figure 3-1. Pci-6110e block diagram timing pfi / trigger i/o conne...

  • Page 22: Analog Input

    Chapter 3 hardware overview pci-6110e/6111e user manual 3-2 © national instruments corporation figure 3-2 shows a block diagram for the pci-6111e board. Figure 3-2. Pci-6111e block diagram analog input the analog input section for the 611x eboard is software configurable. You can select different an...

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    Chapter 3 hardware overview © national instruments corporation 3-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual configuration, refer to the analog input signal connections section in chapter 4, signal connections, which contains diagrams showing the signal paths for diff input. Input polarity and input range the 611...

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    Chapter 3 hardware overview pci-6110e/6111e user manual 3-4 © national instruments corporation considerations for selecting input ranges the range you select depends on the expected range of the incoming signal. A large input range can accommodate a large signal variation but reduces the voltage res...

  • Page 25: Analog Output

    Chapter 3 hardware overview © national instruments corporation 3-5 pci-6110e/6111e user manual you cannot disable dither on the 611x e board. This is because the adc resolution is so fine that the adc and the pgia inherently produce almost 0.5 lsbrms of noise. This is equivalent to having a dither c...

  • Page 26: Analog Trigger

    Chapter 3 hardware overview pci-6110e/6111e user manual 3-6 © national instruments corporation analog trigger in addition to supporting internal software triggering and external digital triggering to initiate a data acquisition sequence, these boards also support analog triggering. You can configure...

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    Chapter 3 hardware overview © national instruments corporation 3-7 pci-6110e/6111e user manual figure 3-5. Analog trigger block diagram for the pci-6111e five analog triggering modes are available, as shown in figures 3-6 through 3-10. You can set lowvalue and highvalue independently in software. In...

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    Chapter 3 hardware overview pci-6110e/6111e user manual 3-8 © national instruments corporation in above-high-level analog triggering mode, the trigger is generated when the signal value is greater than highvalue,as shown in figure 3-7. Lowvalue is unused. Figure 3-7. Above-high-level analog triggeri...

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    Chapter 3 hardware overview © national instruments corporation 3-9 pci-6110e/6111e user manual in high-hysteresis analog triggering mode, the trigger is generated when the signal value is greater than highvalue, with the hysteresis specified by lowvalue,as shown in figure 3-9. Figure 3-9. High-hyste...

  • Page 30: Digital I/o

    Chapter 3 hardware overview pci-6110e/6111e user manual 3-10 © national instruments corporation digital i/o the 611x e board contains eight lines of digital i/o for general-purpose use. You can individually software-configure each line for either input or output. At system startup and reset, the dig...

  • Page 31: Timing Signal Routing

    Chapter 3 hardware overview © national instruments corporation 3-11 pci-6110e/6111e user manual timing signal routing the daq-stc provides a very flexible interface for connecting timing signals to other boards or external circuitry. The 611x e board uses the rtsi bus to interconnect timing signals ...

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    Chapter 3 hardware overview pci-6110e/6111e user manual 3-12 © national instruments corporation this figure shows that convert* can be generated from a number of sources, including the external signals rtsi and pfi and the internal signals sample interval counter tc and gpctr0_out. Many of these tim...

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    Chapter 3 hardware overview © national instruments corporation 3-13 pci-6110e/6111e user manual rtsi triggers the seven rtsi trigger lines on the rtsi bus provide a very flexible interconnection scheme for the 611x e board sharing the rtsi bus. These bidirectional lines can drive any of eight timing...

  • Page 34: Signal Connections

    © national instruments corporation 4-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual chapter 4 signal connections this chapter describes how to make input and output signal connections to your 611x e board via the board i/o connector. The i/o connector for the 611x e board has 68 pins that you can connect to 68-pin a...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-2 © national instruments corporation figure 4-1. I/o connector pin assignment for the 611 x e board freq_out gpctr0_out pfi9/gpctr0_gate dgnd pfi6/wftrig pfi5/update* dgnd +5 v dgnd pfi1/trig2 pfi0/trig1 dgnd dgnd +5 v dgnd dio6 dio1 dgnd di...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual i/o connector signal descriptions table 4-1. Signal descriptions for i/o connector pins signal name reference direction description ach gnd — — analog input channels 0 through 3 ground—these pins are the ...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-4 © national instruments corporation pfi0/trig1 dgnd input output pfi0/trigger 1—as an input, this is either one of the programmable function inputs (pfis) or the source for the hardware analog trigger. Pfi signals are explained in the timin...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-5 pci-6110e/6111e user manual pfi6/wftrig dgnd input output pfi6/waveform trigger—as an input, this is one of the pfis. As an output, this is the wftrig signal. In timed analog output sequences, a low-to-high transition indicates the ...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-6 © national instruments corporation table 4-2 shows the i/o signal summary for the 611x eboards. Table 4-2. I/o signal summary for the 611 x e signal name signal type and direction impedance input/ output protection (volts) on/off source (m...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-7 pci-6110e/6111e user manual pfi4/gpctr1_gate dio — v cc +0.5 3.5 at (v cc -0.4) 5 at 0.4 1.5 50 k Ω pu gpctr1_out do — — 3.5 at (v cc -0.4) 5 at 0.4 1.5 50 k Ω pu pfi5/update* dio — v cc +0.5 3.5 at (v cc -0.4) 5 at 0.4 1.5 50 k Ω p...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-8 © national instruments corporation analog input signal connections the analog input signals for the 611x e board are ach+ and ach–. The ach+ signals are routed to the positive input of the pgia, and signals connected to ach– are routed to ...

  • Page 42: Types of Signal Sources

    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-9 pci-6110e/6111e user manual types of signal sources when making signal connections, you must first determine whether the signal sources are floating or ground-referenced. The following sections describe these two types of signals. F...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-10 © national instruments corporation table 4-3 summarizes the recommended diff signal connections and includes input examples for both types of signal sources. Differential connection considerations a differential connection is one in which...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-11 pci-6110e/6111e user manual differential connections for ground-referenced signal sources figure 4-3 shows how to connect a ground-referenced signal source to a channel on the 611x e board. Figure 4-3. Differential input connection...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-12 © national instruments corporation figure 4-4. Differential input connections for nonreferenced signals figure 4-4 shows a bias resistor connected between ach0 – and the floating signal source ground. If you do not use the resistor and th...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-13 pci-6110e/6111e user manual analog output signal connections the analog output signals are dac0out, dac1out, and aognd. Dac0out is the voltage output signal for analog output channel 0. Dac1out is the voltage output signal for anal...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-14 © national instruments corporation caution: exceeding the maximum input voltage ratings, which are listed in table 4-2, can damage the 611x e board and the computer. National instruments is not liable for any damages resulting from such s...

  • Page 48: Power Connections

    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-15 pci-6110e/6111e user manual power connections two pins on the i/o connector supply +5 v from the computer power supply via a self-resetting fuse. The fuse will reset automatically within a few seconds after the overcurrent conditio...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-16 © national instruments corporation all digital timing connections are referenced to dgnd. This reference is demonstrated in figure 4-7, which shows how to connect an external trig1 source and an external convert* source to two 611x e boar...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-17 pci-6110e/6111e user manual for the pfi2/convert* pin. Be careful not to drive a pfi signal externally when it is configured as an output. As an input, you can individually configure each pfi for edge or level detection and for pol...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-18 © national instruments corporation figure 4-9. Typical pretriggered acquisition scanclk signal scanclk is an output-only signal that generates a pulse with the leading edge occurring approximately 50 to 100 ns after an a/d conversion begi...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-19 pci-6110e/6111e user manual figure 4-11 shows the timing for the hardware-strobe mode extstrobe* signal. Figure 4-11. Extstrobe* signal timing trig1 signal any pfi pin can externally input the trig1 signal, which is available as an...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-20 © national instruments corporation figures 4-12 and 4-13 show the input and output timing requirements for the trig1 signal. Figure 4-12. Trig1 input signal timing figure 4-13. Trig1 output signal timing the board also uses the trig1 sign...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-21 pci-6110e/6111e user manual of scans before trig2 can be recognized. After the scan counter decrements to zero, it is loaded with the number of posttrigger scans to acquire while the acquisition continues. The board ignores the tri...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-22 © national instruments corporation startscan signal any pfi pin can externally input the startscan signal, which is available as an output on the pfi7/startscan pin. Refer to figures 4-8 and 4-9 for the relationship of startscan to the da...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-23 pci-6110e/6111e user manual figure 4-17. Startscan output signal timing the convert* pulses are masked off until the board generates the startscan signal. If you are using internally generated conversions, the first convert* appear...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-24 © national instruments corporation refer to figures 4-8 and 4-9 for the relationship of startscan to the daq sequence. As an input, the convert* signal is configured in the edge-detection mode. You can select any pfi pin as the source for...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-25 pci-6110e/6111e user manual the sample interval counter on the 611x e board normally generates the convert* signal unless you select some external source. The counter is started by the startscan signal and continues to count down a...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-26 © national instruments corporation the maximum allowed frequency is 20 mhz, with a minimum pulse width of 23 ns high or low. There is no minimum frequency limitation. Either the 20 mhz or 100 khz internal timebase generates the sisource s...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-27 pci-6110e/6111e user manual figures 4-21 and 4-22 show the input and output timing requirements for the wftrig signal. Figure 4-21. Wftrig input signal timing figure 4-22. Wftrig output signal timing update* signal any pfi pin can ...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-28 © national instruments corporation figures 4-23 and 4-24 show the input and output timing requirements for the update* signal. Figure 4-23. Update* input signal timing figure 4-24. Update* output signal timing the dacs are updated within ...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-29 pci-6110e/6111e user manual polarity selection for the pfi pin for either active high or active low. Figure 4-25 shows the timing requirements for the uisource signal. Figure 4-25. Uisource signal timing the maximum allowed frequen...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-30 © national instruments corporation figure 4-26 shows the timing requirements for the gpctr0_source signal. Figure 4-26. Gpctr0_source signal timing the maximum allowed frequency is 20 mhz, with a minimum pulse width of 10 ns high or low. ...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-31 pci-6110e/6111e user manual figure 4-27 shows the timing requirements for the gpctr0_gate signal. Figure 4-27. Gpctr0_gate signal timing in edge-detection mode gpctr0_out signal this signal is available only as an output on the gpc...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-32 © national instruments corporation gpctr1_source signal any pfi pin can externally input the gpctr1_source signal, which is available as an output on the pfi3/gpctr1_source pin. As an input, the gpctr1_source signal is configured in the e...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-33 pci-6110e/6111e user manual actions as starting and stopping the counter, generating interrupts, saving the counter contents, and so on. As an output, the gpctr1_gate signal monitors the actual gate signal connected to general-purp...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-34 © national instruments corporation gpctr1_up_down signal this signal can be externally input on the dio7 pin and is not available as an output on the i/o connector. General-purpose counter 1 counts down when this pin is at a logic low and...

  • Page 68: Field Wiring Considerations

    Chapter 4 signal connections © national instruments corporation 4-35 pci-6110e/6111e user manual low) for at least 10 ns before the rising or falling edge of a source signal for the gate to take effect at that source edge, as shown by t gsu and t gh in figure 4-32. The gate signal is not required to...

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    Chapter 4 signal connections pci-6110e/6111e user manual 4-36 © national instruments corporation point to the signal source ground. This kind of connection is required for signals traveling through areas with large magnetic fields or high electromagnetic interference. • route signals to the board ca...

  • Page 70: Calibration

    © national instruments corporation 5-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual chapter 5 calibration this chapter discusses the calibration procedures for your 611x e board. If you are using the ni-daq device driver, that software includes calibration functions for performing all of the steps in the calibration...

  • Page 71: Self-Calibration

    Chapter 5 calibration pci-6110e/6111e user manual 5-2 © national instruments corporation this method of calibration is not very accurate because it does not take into account the fact that the board measurement and output voltage errors can vary with time and temperature. It is better to self-calibr...

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    Chapter 5 calibration © national instruments corporation 5-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual to externally calibrate your board, be sure to use a very accurate external reference. The reference should be several times more accurate than the board itself. For example, to calibrate a 16-bit board, the ext...

  • Page 73: Specifications

    © national instruments corporation a-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual appendix a specifications this appendix lists the specifications of your 611x e board. These specifications are typical at 25° c unless otherwise noted. Pci-6110e/6111e analog input input characteristics number of channels pci-6110e ...

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    Appendix a specifications pci-6110e/6111e user manual a-2 © national instruments corporation input coupling .................................... Dc/ac max working voltage for all analog input channels + input ......................................... Should remain within ±11 v for ranges ≥ ±10 v; sh...

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    Appendix a specifications © national instruments corporation a-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual pci-6110e/6111e accuracy information no minal r a ng e (v) absol u te a ccur ac y rel a ti v e accu racy % of rea d in g of fs et noise + quantization (mv) te m p d ri ft resol u ti on (mv ) full scale 24 h ...

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    Appendix a specifications pci-6110e/6111e user manual a-4 © national instruments corporation transfer characteristics inl .................................................... ±0.5 lsb typ, ±1 lsb max dnl ................................................... ±0.3 lsb typ, ±0.75 lsb max spurious free dy...

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    Appendix a specifications © national instruments corporation a-5 pci-6110e/6111e user manual postgain .......................................±50 µv/° c gain temperature coefficient ...............±20 ppm/° c onboard calibration reference level ............................................5.000 v (±2....

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    Appendix a specifications pci-6110e/6111e user manual a-6 © national instruments corporation output impedance .............................. 50 Ω ±5% current drive ...................................... ±5 ma min output stability .................................. Any passive load protection ..........

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    Appendix a specifications © national instruments corporation a-7 pci-6110e/6111e user manual digital logic levels power-on state ....................................Input (high-z) data transfers ......................................Programmed i/o timing i/o number of channels .........................

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    Appendix a specifications pci-6110e/6111e user manual a-8 © national instruments corporation data transfers ..................................... Dma, interrupts, programmed i/o dma modes ....................................... Scatter-gather triggers analog trigger source pci-6110e ...................

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    Appendix a specifications © national instruments corporation a-9 pci-6110e/6111e user manual rtsi trigger lines ......................................7 bus interface type ...................................................Master, slave power requirement +5 vdc (±5%) pci-6110e ..........................

  • Page 82: Cable Connector

    © national instruments corporation b-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual appendix b cable connector descriptions this appendix describes the cable connectors on your 611x e board. Figure b-1 shows the pin assignments for the 68-pin 611x e connector. This connector is available when you use the sh6868ep ca...

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    Appendix b cable connector descriptions pci-6110e/6111e user manual b-2 © national instruments corporation figure b-1. 68-pin 611 x e series connector pin assignments freq_out gpctr0_out pfi9/gpctr0_gate dgnd pfi6/wftrig pfi5/update* dgnd +5 v dgnd pfi1/trig2 pfi0/trig1 dgnd dgnd +5 v dgnd dio6 dio1...

  • Page 84: Common Questions

    © national instruments corporation c-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual appendix c common questions this appendix contains a list of commonly asked questions and their answers relating to usage and special features of your 611x e board. General information what is the 611x e board? The 611x e board is a ...

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    Appendix c common questions pci-6110e/6111e user manual c-2 © national instruments corporation what type of 5 v protection does the 611x eboard have? The 611x e board has 5 v lines equipped with a self-resetting 1 a fuse. Installation and configuration how do you set the base address for the 611x e ...

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    Appendix c common questions © national instruments corporation c-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual can i synchronize a one-channel analog input data acquisition with a one-channel analog output waveform generation on my 611x e board? Yes. One way to accomplish this is to use the waveform generation timi...

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    Appendix c common questions pci-6110e/6111e user manual c-4 © national instruments corporation up/down control, single or pulse train generation, equivalent time sampling, buffered period, and buffered semiperiod measurement. What is the difference in timebases between the am9513 counter/timer and t...

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    Appendix c common questions © national instruments corporation c-5 pci-6110e/6111e user manual connector, route external signals to internal timing sources, or tie internal timing signals together. If you are using ni-daq with labview and you want to connect external signal sources to the pfi lines,...

  • Page 89: Customer Communication

    © national instruments corporation d-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual appendix d customer communication for your convenience, this appendix contains forms to help you gather the information necessary to help us solve your technical problems and a form you can use to comment on the product documentation...

  • Page 90

    Fax-on-demand support fax-on-demand is a 24-hour information retrieval system containing a library of documents on a wide range of technical information. You can access fax-on-demand from a touch-tone telephone at 512 418 1111. E-mail support (currently usa only) you can submit technical support que...

  • Page 91: Technical Support Form

    Technical support form photocopy this form and update it each time you make changes to your software or hardware, and use the completed copy of this form as a reference for your current configuration. Completing this form accurately before contacting national instruments for technical support helps ...

  • Page 92: Configuration Form

    Pci-6110e/6111e hardware and software configuration form record the settings and revisions of your hardware and software on the line to the right of each item. Complete a new copy of this form each time you revise your software or hardware configuration, and use this form as a reference for your cur...

  • Page 93: Documentation Comment Form

    Documentation comment form national instruments encourages you to comment on the documentation supplied with our products. This information helps us provide quality products to meet your needs. Title: pci-6110e/6111e user manual edition date: april 1998 part number: 321759b-01 please comment on the ...

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    © national instruments corporation g-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual glossary symbols/numbers ° degrees > greater than ≥ greater than or equal to less than ≤ less than or equal to / per % percent ± plus or minus + positive of, or plus prefix meaning value p- pico- 10 –12 n- nano- 10 –9 µ- micro- 10 –6...

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    Glossary pci-6110e/6111e user manual g-2 © national instruments corporation – negative of, or minus Ω ohms square root of +5 v +5 vdc source signal a a amperes ac alternating current ach analog input channel signal ach0gnd analog input channel ground signal a/d analog-to-digital adc analog-to-digita...

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    Glossary © national instruments corporation g-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual c c celsius caldac calibration dac ch channel—pin or wire lead to which you apply or from which you read the analog or digital signal. Analog signals can be single- ended or differential. For digital signals, you group chann...

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    Glossary pci-6110e/6111e user manual g-4 © national instruments corporation general a/d and d/a system, such as a system containing the national instruments e series boards. Db decibel—the unit for expressing a logarithmic measure of the ratio of two signal levels: db=20log10 v1/v2, for signals in v...

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    Glossary © national instruments corporation g-5 pci-6110e/6111e user manual system memory. Programming the dma controller and servicing interrupts can take several milliseconds in some cases. During this time, data accumulates in the fifo for future retrieval. With a larger fifo, longer latencies ca...

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    Glossary pci-6110e/6111e user manual g-6 © national instruments corporation i inl integral nonlinearity–for an adc, deviation of codes of the actual transfer function from a straight line. I/o input/output—the transfer of data to/from a computer system involving communications channels, operator int...

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    Glossary © national instruments corporation g-7 pci-6110e/6111e user manual mv millivolts n nc normally closed, or not connected ni-daq national instruments driver software for daq hardware noise an undesirable electrical signal—noise comes from external sources such as the ac power line, motors, ge...

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    Glossary pci-6110e/6111e user manual g-8 © national instruments corporation pfi4/gpctr1_gate pfi4/general-purpose counter 1 gate pfi5/update* pfi5/update pfi6/wftrig pfi6/waveform trigger pfi7/startscan pfi7/start of scan pfi8/gpctr0_source pfi8/general-purpose counter 0 source pfi9/gpctr0_gate pfi9...

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    Glossary © national instruments corporation g-9 pci-6110e/6111e user manual s s seconds s samples scanclk scan clock signal scxi signal conditioning extensions for instrumentation—the national instruments product line for conditioning low-level signals within an external chassis near sensors so only...

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    Glossary pci-6110e/6111e user manual g-10 © national instruments corporation thd total harmonic distortion—the ratio of the total rms signal due to harmonic distortion to the overall rms signal, in decibel or a percentage thermocouple a temperature sensor created by joining two dissimilar metals. Th...

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    Glossary © national instruments corporation g-11 pci-6110e/6111e user manual v oh volts, output high v ol volts, output low v ref reference voltage v rms volts, root mean square w wftrig waveform generation trigger signal pci_e.Book page 11 thursday, june 25, 1998 12:55 pm.

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    © national instruments corporation i-1 pci-6110e/6111e user manual index numbers +5 v signal description (table), 4-3 power connections, 4-15 self-resetting fuse, 4-15, c-2 a ac input coupling, 3-4 ach+ signal analog input connections, 4-8 description (table), 4-3 differential connections ground-ref...

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    Index pci-6110e/6111e user manual i-2 © national instruments corporation below-low-level analog triggering mode (figure), 3-7 block diagrams pci-6110e, 3-6 pci-6111e, 3-7 high-hysteresis analog triggering mode (figure), 3-9 inside-region analog triggering mode (figure), 3-8 low-hysteresis analog tri...

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    Index © national instruments corporation i-3 pci-6110e/6111e user manual data acquisition timing connections. See daq timing connections. Dc input coupling, 3-4 dgnd signal description (table), 4-3 digital i/o connections, 4-13 to 4-14 signal summary (table), 4-6 timing connections, 4-16 differentia...

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    Index pci-6110e/6111e user manual i-4 © national instruments corporation gpctr1_source signal, 4-32 gpctr1_up_down signal, 4-34 to 4-35 questions about, c-4 to c-5 glitches, c-2 gpctr0_gate signal, 4-30 to 4-31 gpctr0_out signal description (table), 4-5 general-purpose timing connections, 4-31 signa...

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    Index © national instruments corporation i-5 pci-6110e/6111e user manual n ni-daq driver software, 1-3 to 1-4 noise, avoiding, 4-35 to 4-36 nrse (nonreferenced single-ended input), 4-11 to 4-12 o optional equipment, 1-5 output characteristic specifications, a-5 p pci-6110e/6111e. See also hardware o...

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    Index pci-6110e/6111e user manual i-6 © national instruments corporation pin assignments (figure), 4-2, b-2 polarity selection, analog input, 3-3 to 3-4 posttriggered data acquisition, 4-17 power connections +5 v power pins, 4-15 self-resetting fuse, 4-15 power requirement specifications, a-9 pretri...

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    Index © national instruments corporation i-7 pci-6110e/6111e user manual general-purpose timing signal connections, 4-29 to 4-35 freq_out signal, 4-35 gpctr0_gate signal, 4-30 to 4-31 gpctr0_out signal, 4-31 gpctr0_source signal, 4-29 to 4-30 gpctr0_up_down signal, 4-31 gpctr1_gate signal, 4-32 to 4...

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    Index pci-6110e/6111e user manual i-8 © national instruments corporation typical posttriggered acquisition (figure), 4-17 typical pretriggered acquisition (figure), 4-18 general-purpose timing signal connections, 4-29 to 4-35 freq_out signal, 4-35 gpctr0_gate signal, 4-30 to 4-31 gpctr0_out signal, ...

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    Index © national instruments corporation i-9 pci-6110e/6111e user manual w waveform generation, questions about, c-3 waveform generation timing connections, 4-26 to 4-29 uisource signal, 4-28 to 4-29 update* signal, 4-27 to 4-28 wftrig signal, 4-26 to 4-27 wftrig signal input signal timing (figure),...