VT1433B User's Guide

The Tachometer Option

Tachometer Description

A tachometer input can be included with the VT1433B 8-Channel 196 kSamples/s Digitizer plus DSP as VT1433B-AYF. (It cannot be installed with an Arbitrary Source Option, VT1433B-1D4.) The Tachometer Option is a two channel tachometer input used to capture the contents of a freerun counter whenever an external input crosses a programmable threshold.

Tachometer Inputs

The tachometer has two inputs which connect to analog conditioning, holdoff and FIFO circuitry. See the block diagram in this chapter. The inputs can be configured so that one input connector (Tach 2) becomes an external trigger input and the other (Tach 1) remains a tachometer input. (The Tach 1 connector cannot be a trigger input.) The switch that determines this configuration is controlled by software.

External Trigger Input

A VT1433B without a tachometer option can accept a TTL external trigger signal (see “Trigger Lines” in the chapter titled “Module Description”). With the tachometer option the VT1433B still has that capability and is also able to accept an analog external trigger signal at the Tach 2 input.

Trigger Level

The trigger level of the tachometer can be set by software.

Tachometer Monitoring

The tachometer is capable of sending its analog input signal onto the VT1433B module’s internal calibration line. The calibration line can be connected to the 196 kHz 4-channel input assembly, so that the signal on the tachometer’s connector can be monitored via an input channel. This can be useful when deciding where to set the trigger level of the tachometer. An example program is supplied with the VT1433B Host Interface library, which shows how to perform this tachometer monitoring.

Exact RPM Triggering

The tachometer can be used to create exact RPM triggering, controlled by software. The RPM of the tach channel is calculated from tach transition times. Then the sample numbers in the data FIFO are determined for exact RPM triggering.

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VT1433B specifications

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