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Managing Output Data

At the core of any analog output application lies the data you want to send from a computer to an output device such as an actuator. The role of the analog output subsystem is to convert digitized data to analog data for subsequent output.

Before you can output data to the analog output subsystem, it must be queued in the engine. Queuing data is managed with the putdata function. In addition to this function, there are several properties associated with managing output data. These properties are given below.

Table 6-6: Analog Output Data Management Properties
Property Name
Description
MaxSamplesQueued
Indicate the maximum number of samples that can be queued in the engine.
RepeatOutput
Specify the number of additional times queued data is output.
Timeout
Specify an additional waiting time to queue data.


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