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Hi,
 
I am trying to acquire some digital samples (2 x 16 bits in one PCIe 6537) using Burst handshake protocol. I have the cable adapter configured as follows:
 
6537 side          6533 side                  desc.
4                        4                                Clock
1                        6                                Ack
0                        2                                Req
 
Surprisingly nothing happens when I have my clock (in the VB .NET program) set to PFI4. But when I change it to PFI5 I get an ACK signal on my peripheral.
 
I noticed that nothing happens in the clock on the peripheral, though.
 
I wonder if I am supposed to change my cable adapter so that it connects PFI4 from my 6533 side (peripheral) to PFI5 in my 6537side. Is this right?
 
I have another thread treating of this issue but from the programming side at:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=232&message.id=5688&jump=true
 
Thank you.
 
---ADDED:
I am not sure how my thread ended up with this meaningless title. It was supposed to be PCIe 6537 configure export clock to read data.


Message Edited by leosgb on 11-30-2007 04:08 PM
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Hi leosgb:

The 6537 doesn't support the clock on PFI4 for input (i.e. PFI4 as a clock is supported for only output).  It's not working because your not catching the configuration error or your code is ignoring the configuration error.

Jeff


@leosgb wrote:
Hi,
 
I am trying to acquire some digital samples (2 x 16 bits in one PCIe 6537) using Burst handshake protocol. I have the cable adapter configured as follows:
 
6537 side          6533 side                  desc.
4                        4                                Clock
1                        6                                Ack
0                        2                                Req
 
Surprisingly nothing happens when I have my clock (in the VB .NET program) set to PFI4. But when I change it to PFI5 I get an ACK signal on my peripheral.
 
I noticed that nothing happens in the clock on the peripheral, though.
 
I wonder if I am supposed to change my cable adapter so that it connects PFI4 from my 6533 side (peripheral) to PFI5 in my 6537side. Is this right?
 
I have another thread treating of this issue but from the programming side at:
http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=232&message.id=5688&jump=true
 
Thank you.
 
---ADDED:
I am not sure how my thread ended up with this meaningless title. It was supposed to be PCIe 6537 configure export clock to read data.


Message Edited by leosgb on 11-30-2007 04:08 PM


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 Hi Leosgb,

 What jcarbonell said is exactly correct. The clock source can be PFI5, not PFI4. This can be seen in the NI 6536/6537 help here:
 


 What you have described is the 6533 exporting a clock to a PFI, that PFI line is then physically jumpered to PFI-5 on the 6537 side of the connector. . The 6537 sample clock source is set as PFI-5.

 Have a great morning!
 
 Best regards,

 MatthewW
Applications Engineer
 National Instruments
 

 



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