NI ADSL Parametric Test Platform

Hi all,
I have downloaded NI ADSL Parametric Test code from NIs web site. When i try to run the code it asks for the "Limit Testing for cluster.vi" under mamon.llb. I have checked my NI directory and found "mamon.llb" but not "Limit Testing for cluster.vi" inside? Any help/comments? I have LV7.0 already installed,WinXP
Regards.

Hi tmm,
For this particular example, the Limit Testing for cluster.vi has been renamed to Limit Testing.vi. You can find this vi in mamon.llb. What you must do is ignore the subvi when loading, and then trace back to this vi. You will see it will have a ? in place of its icon, with broken lines around it. Go ahead and replace the ? with the Limit Testing.vi, and make sure it is wired. You also may have to relink some subvis. To do this, locate the subvis in question, right click on them, and select "relink to subvi". This should fix all of your problems!
Jeremy L.
National Instruments
Jeremy L.
National Instruments

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We want something much more akin to random access memory. We'll have UUTs of different kinds coming on and off at random times. Sometimes a test will need a simple DC voltage, and other times another test will need 2 seconds worth of data at 1MS/s. It can cost around 150msec to make that change (stop the current task, creat another one, configure anohter channel, start up a new task, blah, blah, task this, channle that - for the life of me I can't understand what this damn taks concept does for me but make matters more complicated and bog down my system).
I can just barely glean from the help that I can have only one analog input task at once, but I can have sevferal taks of several different kinds running at the same time ( a digital output task and another task for digital input, and another task for analong input, etc.) . It does seem that I can set realys without having to put them into a channel and a task (Thank goodness for that - I just wanna turn on a relay I have no idea what a relay "channel" might be.)
In the PXI system I described above I'll have two devices that are analog input devices, the DMM and the Daq. Even with two devices, can I only have one analog input task running? Does that mean I've got to waste 150msec just to switch from the DMM to the Daq? (Do you understand my frustration with "tasks"? - I should be able to say "read DMM" and turn around and say "read Daq channel 0" without having to jump thru task and channle hoops and waste a bunch of time doing it).
I'll also have Daq digital IO and two 6509 digital io modules. Do I have to cram all of that into some "task" concept too? The Daq card has got many other kinds of wonderful capability (frequency measurement, counters, analog output). How many tasks can I have for that stuff? On the DMM card I can measure capacitance amoung other things. Will I have a capacitance task? The idea of a "capacitance task" hurts my head.
Golly I hate tasks. Please help.
I am working out of the office this week - please send your response to [email protected] as well as my normal email [email protected].
Dave

Dave,
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For some the concept of tasks may seem daunting, however, for many applications it makes life a lot more simple. A task at a very fundamental level is simply a collection of channels with a single type (AI, DI, DO, etc.) and a single timing configuration (sampling rate, continuous vs. finite, etc.). It is a way to organize configuration data.
The concept of a task is an abstraction like OO programming. Like OO programming it may take some time to understand but can be a time saver in the end. Also like OO programming it does add some initial programming overhead. It is much more simple to simply type a printf statement in C than to have to create a bunch of classes just to output text to the screen. You can accomplish the same thing not using OO programming, but in the end OO programming is extremely useful, because it groups useful information and methods together in one place.
With very simple applications OO programming sometimes does not make sense. But as a program gets more and more complex OO programming becomes more and more useful. It takes some learning but it is worth it.
I believe the concept of a task does the same thing. It does not change the actual functionality of the device or add excessive overhead. It is just an abstraction that pulls configuration data about a specific "task" and methods the task can perform into a single logical place.
Unlike the entirely abstract concept of an Object, a Task is run on a physical device and therefore has physical limitations. You can create multiple tasks of the same type, but you can only run a one timed task of each type on a single board at a time. In other words you can have multiple AI tasks running at the same time but they need to run on different boards or only one can be timed (have a rate). You can also have multiple timed AI tasks configured for a single board but only one can actually be running at a time.
The reason you can only have a single timed task running at a time is because the M-Series boards (and many other boards as well) have a single timing engine for each type of acquisition or generation. There is a single timing engine for AI, one for AO, and so forth. You cannot have channel 1 running at 1 MS/s and another running at 50 kS/s.
However, tasks can exist even when they are not being actively run. You can create all the tasks you need at the beginning of your program and simply start and stop them as you need. After the task is stopped you do not need to clear the task until the end of your program. You can further increase performance by moving the Task into the latest state possible without actually starting the task. This can be done by calling myTask.Control(TaskAction.Action). The Task states are further explained in the NI-DAQmx Help Manual.
The concept of a task will need to be used with any device that is being programmed using NI-DAQmx. The 6259 and 6509 will need to be programmed using DAQmx. With the 2575 and 2569 you have the choice of either using the NI-DAQmx API or the NI-SWITCH API. The SWITCH API does not use the concept of tasks. For the 4072 you will need to use the NI-DMM API. This API also does not use the concept of tasks.
Hopefully this information is helpful. Let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns.
Regards,
Neil S.
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

NI ADSL Parametric Test Platform

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