Routing a digital input to a digital output on NI USB 6501

[Ury]

Hi,

I'm looking for instructions on how to route a digital input to a digital output on the NI USB 6501, but I haven't found such instructions.

To be clear, I don't want to write a software control loop or poll the input and update the output via software.  I would like to have this done in the device hardware.

Thanks,

  Ury

[christineb]

Hi Ury,

Here's the pinout for the USB 6501: USB 6501 Pinout

and its spec sheet: USB 6501 Specifications

Whether a pin is an input or output is software-selectable on the USB 6501, so you have to pick which one is which in your software. Did you mean that you're trying to route an output to an input?

What's stopping you from just connecting the two lines with a wire?

[Ury]

Thanks for the response.

What I meant is that an external device sends a digital signal to a digital input.  I want this value to be automatically, internally routed to another pin, configured as an output.  I don't want my software to do it, I would like the card to perform this automatically, mainly for delay reasons.

I have many reasons for not doing this externally using a wire.

Is such programming available via API/SDK/configuration?

Thanks,

  Ury

[Kevin_Price]

The USB-6501 device isn't going to be capable of such functionality.  There are other boards that *could* route signals from one pin to another.  For example most (maybe all?) X-series or M-series multifunction boards would have this kind of capability.  

-Kevin P

[Ury]

Got it.

Thanks Kevin.