Measurement Specialties 9116 User Manual

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channels.  Following completion of the acquisition and EU conversion cycle, the 
module will also deliver the requested data channels to the host.  In this manner, 
users are provided with highly synchronized data acquisition and delivery from 
one or more modules.  If a module waits in the idle mode for an extended period 
of time without receiving a data request, it will periodically initiate its own internal 
data acquisition cycles so as to update internal thermal coefficients. 
 
When all hardware triggered streams are complete or aborted, an individual 
module will return to the default mode of continuous scanning and EU 
conversion.   
 
When the internal software timer is used to control host stream output rates 
(sync=1), note that internal clock frequency variances will result in slightly 
different timing between modules.  Although these differences in timing are slight, 
they may result in noticeable differences in output timing between modules over 
a long period of time.  If highly synchronized data output is required from multiple 
modules, the hardware trigger mode should be used. 
 
The period ‘per’ parameter is a positive decimal integer count (from 0 to 
2147483647, specified with 1 to 10 numeric digits as needed), and its meaning 
depends on the sync type ‘sync’ parameter described above. 
 
‘sync’ 
meaning of ‘per’ 
number of hardware trigger periods to wait before sending each packet 
delay period (in milliseconds) to wait before sending each packet  
NOTE:
 minimum is 2 milliseconds and the granularity is 2 milliseconds 
with values rounded down to the nearest 2 milliseconds. 
 
The ‘f’ parameter identifies the format of each selected acquired datum in each 
stream packet, and is a single numeric digit. Valid format codes are listed in the 
following table: 
 
converts each internal selected acquired datum value from . . . 
max. char. 
0  single binary float 
to  7-10-digit signed decimal “ [-xxx]x.xxxxxx” 
13 
1  single binary float 
to  8-digit hex integer “ xxxxxxxx” 
2  double binary float 
to  16-digit hex integer “ xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx” 
17 
5  single binary float 
to  long integer (EU*1000) then to 8-digit hex integer 
7  single binary float 
to  single binary float (big endian: msb first) 
8  single binary float 
to  single binary float (little endian: lsb first) 
 
 
Unless the EU conversion scalar is altered, the returned pressure data will be in units of psi. 
 
(See command ‘v’, array 11, coefficient 01 for other units.