The i4xx cards have multiple universal digital i/o channels (referred to as "UIO"),
each of which can be independently programmed with software.
The i420,
i423 and
i430
have 4 UIO channels each; whereas the
i460
has 12 UIO channels.
For details, click on the links in the previous sentence.
For information on setting up digital & universal i/o channels, click
here.
Each UIO channel can be set up to do one of the following:
digital input bit
digital output bit
control output
free running clock output set to one of following frequencies: 24MHz, 12MHz, 6MHz, 1.5MHz,
1MHz, 375KHz, 100KHz, 93.750008KHz, 23.437502KHz, 10KHz, 5.9KHz,
1.5KHz, 1KHz, 366Hz, 100Hz, 91.552734Hz, 22.888184Hz, 10Hz, 5.7Hz, 1.4Hz, 1Hz, 0.358Hz, 0.0894Hz.
Digital Clock Output with the iNet-200 PCI Card
The Model 200 (not 230) instruNet PCI Controller boards have 10 digital
input/output channels, each of which can be used to output a continuous clock,
or a fixed number of pulses {1...2e9}. Set high time and
period of clock. If period > 10ms, then we generate clock with a 1ms timebase that drives two 0 to 32K
timers; otherwise, we use a 0.25us timebase. Periods must be >100us when fixing the # of pulses.
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