KPCI3100_PulseWdth.pdf | | Measurement of Pulse Width
Programming a counter for gated event counting performs pulse width
measurement. The signal of interest is connected to the gate of the counter.
The number of accumulated counts, of a known timebase, is indicative of the
pulse width at the gate.
Often the internal timebase of a multifunction board is too fast to allow just a
single 16bit counter to be used for the gated event counting. For example, the
multifunction boards of the KPCI3100 driver (KPCI-3101, KPCI-3102, etc.) have
an internal timebase of 20MHz. A single 16bit counter will reach full scale in 3.27
msec.
Gated Event Counting, counts pulses of the timebase but only when the
signal of interest is at logic 1 state.
If the pulse of interest is longer than 3 msec in duration, then additional counters
must be used to perform the task. One approach is to use a counter in square
wave generation mode to provide a slower timebase signal to the gated event-
counting channel |