Analog Input with NI-DAQmx

You can perform analog input measurements using one of two methods:

• Install a supported single board analog input C Series module with any sbRIO-96xx controller.
• Use Connector0 to access the sbRIO I/O module on the sbRIO-962x/sbRIO-963x.

Set the programming mode to Real-Time (NI-DAQmx) mode. The measurement specifications, such as number of channels, channel configuration, sample rate, and gain, are determined by the type of sbRIO I/O module used.

The sbRIO controller has eight input timing engines, which means that up to eight hardware-timed analog input tasks can be running at a time on the controller. An analog input task can include channels from multiple analog input modules. However, channels from a single module cannot be used in multiple tasks.

Multiple timing engines allow the sbRIO controller to run up to eight analog input tasks simultaneously, each using independent timing and triggering configurations. The eight timing engines are it0, it1,…it7.