synchronizing AI and quadrature encoder

[bw-dijon]

Hello,

I'm facing a problem.

With Ni USB 6343 I want to acquire synchronously some Ai chanels and two quadrature encoders

here under the flow of my program :

Create analog input task

Create counter task 1 for left position

Create counter task 2 for right position

Setup analog task (Sample rate, input voltage, …)

Setup counter task 1 & 2 with analog sampling clock as master clock

DAQmxRegisterEveryNSamplesEvent on analog input task

Start counter task 1 & 2

Start analog task as master task to synchronize the three task.

in callback :

DAQmxReadAnalogF64 to read analog samples,

DAQmxReadCounterU32 to read counter 1

DAQmxReadCounterU32 to read counter 2

Here is the issue :

On first (and sometime second) calling of the callback I get the right number of samples from analog task but 0 or 1 samples from counter tasks.

Any idea about this issue ?

Thanks by advance for your support.

B.Williot

[bw-dijon]

I am adding a stripped down version of my code.

Here under a screen capture of output window.

You can see that the first call to EventAcquireCallback, there is no data from counters.

B.Williot.

[bw-dijon]

I've found a modification that works.

I changed

err = DAQmxReadCounterU32(g_TaskHandleCpt1,DAQmx_Val_Auto,60,ctr0Data,50,&nbCtr0,NULL);

by

err = DAQmxReadCounterU32(g_TaskHandleCpt1, nSamples,60,ctr0Data,50,&nbCtr0,NULL);

nSamples is the parameters from

int32 CVICALLBACKEventAcquireCallback(TaskHandle taskHandle,int32 everyNsamplesEventType,uInt32 nSamples,void*callbackDatas)

But I don't know why DAQmx_Val_Auto is not working !

Any idea ?

B.Williot.