After the board is initialized, the panel is enabled and will display the current setting of the board. The following picture shows the serial-out page settings:
GX3722 Virtual Panel – Serial Output page
The following controls are shown in the Serial page:
All Serial Channels Timing Settings - Channels 0-2 (uSec) Group Box:
Contain the serial timing settings common for all three serial-out channels.
Data Bits Pulse Width Group Box:
Logic High Edit Box: Sets/displays the serial-out data bits pulse width for the logic high time in microseconds for all three serial-out channels.
Logic Low Edit Box: Sets/displays the serial-out data bits pulse width for the logic low time in microseconds for all three serial-out channels.
Bit Rate Edit Box: Sets/displays the time in microseconds for each serial transmitted bit for all three serial-out channels.
Trigger Delay Edit Box: Sets/displays the serial-out trigger delay time for all three serial-out channels.
Serial Channel Group Box:
Channel List: Sets/displays all the specific serial channel settings. Selections are: Channel 0, Channel 1, and Channel 2.
Mode List: Sets/displays the specified serial-out channel operation mode, selections are: Static I/O and Serial-out.
Shift Mode List: Sets/displays the specified serial-out channel number shift out mode, selections are; Left MSB First and Right LSB First.
Num of Bits List: Sets/displays the specified serial-out channel number of bits to transmit, selections are 1-64.
Trigger Source List: Sets/displays the specified serial-out channel number trigger source. Selections are: Software, PXI Trigger Line0, PXI Trigger Line1, PXI Trigger Line2, PXI Trigger Line3, PXI Trigger Line4, PXI Trigger Line5, PXI Trigger Line6, PXI Trigger Line7.
Trigger Mode List: Sets/displays the specified serial-out channel number trigger mode, selection are: One-shot (requires streaming), and Continuous (Arm once).
Serial Channel Data (Hex) Group Box:
Sets/displays the specified serial-out channel 64-bit of data to be transmitted.
Arm Off button: Arm is OFF, the channel will not respond to any trigger.
Arm On button: Arm is ON, the channel will respond to any trigger.
Trig button: Issues a software trigger to the specified serial-out channel number.
Reset button: Reset the specified serial-out channel to default settings.