Timestamp Dialog


This dialog allows to set up the timestamp option. All available timestamp modes are listed here and can be selected. If two or more synced cards are used the card that is selected as clock master in the clock dialog is used to generate the timestamps.

Timestamp mode Select the basic timestamp mode. Depending on the selected mode the input fields are enabled/disabled. Available modes:
  • Off = disable timestamp acquisition.
  • Standard = the timestamp counter runs independent of start or stop of acquisition and can be reset using the Reset timestamp counter button.
  • StartReset = the timestamp counter is reset to zero on every start of the card.
Counter mode Select the counter mode. Depending on the selected counter mode the input fields are enabled/disabled. Available modes:
  • Internal = the complete counter is running with sampling clock.
  • RefClkPos = the upper part of the counter is running with positive edge of reference clock, the lower part is running with sampling clock. This is only available if your card has BaseXIO option installed.
  • RefClkNeg = the upper part of the counter is running with negative edge of reference clock, the lower part is running with sampling clock. This is only available if your card has BaseXIO option installed.
Reset timestamp counter Click this button to reset the timestamp counter in Standard mode.
RefClk timeout Sets a timeout in milliseconds for waiting for an reference clock edge. It is required to set a non-zero value here if you want to store the absolute date and time with your acquisition.
On M2i/M3i cards this is only available if your card has BaseXIO option installed. On M4i/M4x/M2p cards a multi-purpose line is used.
Ref. Clock Specify the reference clock that is used in timestamp acquisition.
On M2i/M3i cards this is only available if your card has BaseXIO option installed. On M4i/M4x/M2p cards a multi-purpose line is used.
Acquire synchronous BaseXIO Check if you want to acquire data from the BaseXIO or multi-purpose lines with every timestamp.
On M2i/M3i this is only available if your card has BaseXIO option installed. On M4i/M4x/M2p cards the multi-purpose lines are used.
Acquire trigger source information Check if you want to acquire information about the trigger source that triggered the acquisition.
This is only available for M4i/M4x/M2p cards.

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