National Instruments DAQCard-1200 User Manual
Daqcard, 1200 user manual
Table of contents
Document Outline
- DAQCard™-1200 UserManual
- Support
- Important Information
- Contents
- About This Manual
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration
- Chapter 3 Signal Connections
- Chapter 4 Theory of Operation
- Chapter 5 Calibration
- Appendix A Specifications
- Appendix B Differences among the Lab-PC+, the DAQPad 1200, and the DAQCard 1200
- Appendix C Power-Management Modes
- Appendix D PC Card Questions and Answers
- Appendix E Technical Support Resources
- Glossary
- Index
- Figures
- Figure 1-1. The Relationship between the Programming Environment, NI-DAQ, and Your Hardware
- Figure 2-1. A Typical Configuration for the DAQCard-1200
- Figure 3-1. DAQCard-1200 I/O Connector Pin Assignments
- Figure 3-2. DAQCard-1200 Instrumentation Amplifier
- Figure 3-3. Differential Input Connections for Grounded Signal Sources
- Figure 3-4. Differential Input Connections for Floating Sources
- Figure 3-5. Single-Ended Input Connections for Floating Signal Sources
- Figure 3-6. Single-Ended Input Connections for Grounded Signal Sources
- Figure 3-7. Analog Output Signal Connections
- Figure 3-8. Digital I/O Connections
- Figure 3-9. Mode 1 Timing Specifications for Input Transfers
- Figure 3-10. Mode 1 Timing Specifications for Output Transfers
- Figure 3-11. Mode 2 Timing Specifications for Bidirectional Transfers
- Figure 3-12. EXTCONV* Signal Timing
- Figure 3-13. Posttrigger DAQ Timing
- Figure 3-14. Pretrigger DAQ Timing
- Figure 3-15. Interval-Scanning Signal Timing
- Figure 3-16. EXTUPDATE* Signal Timing for Updating DAC Output
- Figure 3-17. Event-Counting Application with External Switch Gating
- Figure 3-18. Frequency Measurement Application
- Figure 3-19. General-Purpose Timing Signals
- Figure 4-1. DAQCard-1200 Block Diagram
- Figure 4-2. PC Card I/O Interface Circuitry Block Diagram
- Figure 4-3. Timing Circuitry
- Figure 4-4. Analog Input Circuitry
- Figure 4-5. Analog Output Circuitry
- Figure 4-6. Digital I/O Circuitry
- Tables
- Table 2-1. Analog I/O Settings
- Table 2-2. Analog Input Modes for the DAQCard-1200
- Table 3-1. Bipolar and Unipolar Analog Input Signal Range Versus Gain
- Table 3-2. Recommended Input Configurations for Ground-Referenced and Floating Signal Sources
- Table 3-3. Port C Signal Assignments
- Table 4-1. Analog Input Settling Time Versus Gain
- Table 4-2. DAQCard-1200 Maximum Recommended Data Acquisition Rates
- Table C-1. DAQCard-1200 Power-Management Modes