I'm developing a microscope prototype and I need to synchronize the data acquisition (ni DAQ) with the movement of a motorized translational stage on which the microscopy sample is placed. The motorized stage generates a trigger signal every time it moves of a defined distance. Just to be clear, if I set the pixel dimension to 1 um, every time the stage travels the distance of 1 um, it emitts a trigger signal. This results in a train of trigger pulses during imaging procedure, that consists in scanning the sample, and my purpose is to use this train to control the acquisition board (ni DAQ) in background: every time the ni DAQ sees a trigger up it should acquire a data, while I execute other stuff in the meantime (e.g. send instruction to the motorized stage for raster scanning movement).
I tried to do it, but it seems to be impossible.
Could you please help me in understanding how to do it? Is it feasible?
