Learn how National Security Technologies created a signal programmer system with CompactRIO and C Series hardware. The central part of the system was developed with a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) framework. The programmer is a clock-based signal distribution device that counts down from a configured minus time, through zero, and then up through a positive count. From this clock, the programmer generates timing signals in a preconfigured time sequence that drive external equipment and trigger devices at experimenter stations.
Taren Bowen, National Security Technologies LLC, Joe Huerta, National Security Technologies