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Measurement Specialties Inc. NetScanner System (9016, 9021, & 9022) User’s Manual
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Description: The firmware of any module, once fully initialized, continuously scans and
converts data for all pressure channels at the highest possible speed. The result of
such scanning is a continuously updated EU data buffer, available to three
concurrent host data delivery tasks, or available to other standard data acquisition
commands in the module. Each host delivery task can grab engineering-unit data
values from the EU data buffer and deliver them to the host in its own
programmable data stream (a sequence of TCP/IP or UDP/IP packets that
autonomously arrive in the host, as long as the host has enough TCP/IP buffering
space to hold them).
Special augments of this command, called sub-commands (distinguished by the
first parameter ii) can configure each data stream with the particular channels
whose data are delivered, the datum format, the delivery rate, and other
characteristics. It can also start, stop, or undefine a single stream or all defined
streams.
The maximum rate of any one stream’s delivery is practically limited to the
maximum possible scan and data conversion rate of all the module’s channels.
Normally, these programmable host streams deliver host data at rates equal to or
slower than this natural cycle. For a typical application, the first stream delivers a
few channels at a high rate as defined by a hardware trigger. The second stream
delivers other channels at a medium rate (some multiple of the trigger), and the
third stream can deliver still other channels at a slow rate (a larger multiple of the
trigger). In another application, the three streams might all be programmed to
deliver all the same channels, but the first stream might deliver pressure data (EU
only) at high speed. The second stream might deliver pressure counts or volts at a
slower rate, and the third stream might deliver temperature in all forms (EU,
counts, volts) at a very slow rate.
NOTE: Avoid confusing this Configure/Control Autonomous Host
Streams command ‘c’ (lower case c) with the Configure/Control Multi-Point
Calibration command ‘C’ (upper case C). Like ‘C’, but unlike most other
module commands, all sub-commands of this command require a space
between the command id (‘c’) and the first parameter (ii).
NOTE: When using hardware trigger inputs to synchronize data stream
outputs, the frequency of the trigger source should be no more than 200Hz
even if the requested output is 100Hz or less.
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