From Friday, April 19th (11:00 PM CDT) through Saturday, April 20th (2:00 PM CDT), 2024, ni.com will undergo system upgrades that may result in temporary service interruption.
We appreciate your patience as we improve our online experience.
I wish to use my pci-6120 dac outputs as a controller to a scanning machine. As far as I understand my options, the best is to download a pre-determined set of voltage samples to the AO FIFO, the dac would then step to the next sapmle either by being externally triggered or in an update rate to be specified. My question is whether it is a possible application using that board, and if so where can I find VI's that can help me do that.
Yes, you should be able to use the NI 6120 for this application. Below, I have included a link to an example program that demonstrates how to accomplish FIFO-mode analog output: