How do I generate a digital Trig Out from my PXI-8104 SMB connector?

[Clinton Thomas]

I would like to generate a digital Trigger to start a continuous aquisition with my ADC and a continous waveform generation with my Waveform Generator. I have an SMB Trig connector on the front of my PXI-8104 controller, and thought that I could use it for this purpose. How can I tell LabView to make use of that?


Clinton Thomas

[Sarah_R]

Hey Clinton,

From the PXI-8104 User Manual, you will find the following: 

"The SMB connector on the NI PXI-8104 front panel can connect to or from any PXI backplane trigger line. A trigger allocation process is needed to prevent two resources from connecting to the same trigger line, resulting in the trigger being double-driven and possibly damaging the hardware. At the time of this manual’s publication, this software is not yet available for Windows."

Therefore, this functionality has not been implemented yet. If you would like to file a product suggestion on this please feel free to go to ni.com/contact and go to the Product Feedback section. 

Thanks