Creating Digital Square Wave with DAQ

Hi,
I am a new LabView user and need some help in creating digital squarewaves using simulated DAQ, and output physical channel.
Since I am only able to create a sine analog waveform using DAQ, I really need your kind help regarding this topic.
Thank you very much.

First: How strickt is your timing?
Will software timing (delay of maybe up to 20ms) be good enough?
Or do you need hardware clock based timing using the hardware timer of your 6251?
I add a event structure based version, timing will lag the executiontime of the write to output
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