Using a counter on PCI-6023E DAQ card

Hi there,
I'm about to use a 6023 card to measure a periodic pulse signal. I need to count the number of the pulses. But...I've heard that the counters on my card are unusable in that case. Is that correct? Do I have to chage my card? Or can I do it with 6023E?
Thanks in advance;
Radek

Hi DAC,
The counter on your 6023E board is the DAQ-STC counter/timer. This counter fully supports counting the number of pulses. Depending on your application development environment, if you search the shipping examples you will find examples that perform this function.
This is so long as your digital pulses are 0-5 V or TTL compatible.
Other applications supported by your counter are:
Simple event counting
Gated-event counting
Single-period measurement
Single pulse-width measurement
Single pulse generation
Single triggered pulse generation
Retriggerable single pulse generation
Continuous pulse-train generation
Buffered event counting
Buffered period measurement
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quency measurement
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Finite pulse-train generation
Quadrature encoders
Hope that helps. Have a good day.
Ron
Application Engineering
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