06-07-2012 03:56 PM
Right now I am trying to speed up my setup. My code is pretty bare bones but this is what happens:
I have an 16 channel AO N sample output using PXI-6723. (200k clock out rate for 48 samples)
This sets my external hardware
Then I read in a result from an A/D PXI-6115, 512 samples at 512k rate (1 ms total).
I then loop this. My AO sets the hardware, then the PXI-6115 gets triggered to measure the result from the hardware.
I'm using a PXIe-8101, and this loop is taking around average 38ms. There can be many spikes however. My end goal is to have something like 2-3 ms for the loop. What can I do to improve this?
06-08-2012 08:56 AM
No ideas...
06-08-2012 10:08 AM
pschmal2
it's hard to determine what is wrong without you posting some version of your code up - but some things that I can say is
1) hopefully you're not using daq assistant
2) make sure you don't have a wait until next multiple function inside the loop
3) switch to RT module for fastest results
4) use a producer-consumer loop
also, this question has been asked before so please check out the forums. like here: http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Faster-sampling-software-controlled/td-p/1633096
06-08-2012 03:56 PM
Hi,
Yes I did a search. Unfortuantely if a producer-consumer loop would have been the answer I would not have posted. 😞
Basically I am controlling MEM switches with the AO, so I cannot capture the data until they are set correctly. MEMS don't send ack or anything so I have to wait for the AO output finished.
I am using the DAQ assist, I will try to clean that up so I'm not using it next time I work on the code.
I am looking into RT module. I am wondering some thing abouts that:
Can I use dll with C wrapper on RT module? I don't have one now, but I am planning to put one later so we can do a little more complex processing in real time.
If it can't use DLL, then can I push the data out onto the ethernet bus? The processing isn't so time critical, its more of setting the MEMS and reading the output.
06-14-2012 11:14 AM
just did a search for your question and came up with this: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/0BF52E6FAC0BF9C286256EDB00015230?OpenDocument
I'm guessing that it won't work unless you write it in real time since dlls are normally windows wrappers.
I don't have a lot of experience with RT but it doesn't mean that it will be faster - though I suppose you can put parts of your code into more deterministic loops and others in non-deterministic loops which could in turn make it faster.