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Part VI
Counting Your Way
to High-Precision Timing
This section describes the different ways you can use counters with your
data acquisition application, including generating a pulse or pulses;
measuring pulse width, frequency, and period; counting events and
time; and dividing frequencies for precision timing.
Part VI,
Counting Your Way to High-Precision Timing
, contains the
following chapters:
• Chapter 23,
Things You Should Know about Counters,
shows you how
to add high-precision timing to your data acquisition (DAQ) system by
using counters and explains basic counter concepts.
• Chapter 24,
Generating a Square Pulse or Pulse Trains,
describes the
ways you can generate a square pulse or multiple pulses (called
pulse
trains
) using the counters available on your data acquisition (DAQ)
device with the Easy, Intermediate, and Advanced Counter VIs in
LabVIEW.
• Chapter 25,
Measuring Pulse Width
, describes how you can use a
counter to measure pulse width.
• Chapter 26,
Measuring Frequency and Period
, describes the various
ways you can measure frequencies and periods using the counters on
your data acquisition (DAQ) device.
• Chapter 27,
Counting Signal Highs and Lows
, teaches you how to use
counters to count external events or elapsed time.
• Chapter 28,
Dividing Frequencies
, shows you how to divide the
available device frequencies to get the frequency you need for your
data acquisition application.