When you don’t have the DAQ hardware you need… Any version of NI-DAQ and the Measurement and Automation Explorer (MAX) released recently has provisions for “simulated” devices.  You choose which devices you want, and then NI-DAQ will pretend those devices are actually installed on your system,

The TIMESTAMP indicator is smart enough to get you into trouble. Just ran into what at first appeared to be a bug, but turned out to be proper, if misunderstood, behavior. I have a project which records data files. When the actual recording starts, and again when

A shortcut to determinism in real-time applications Determinism in software is the ability to ensure that any and all paths taken through the code take a consistent amount of time to execute.  Most desktop applications have no interest in this consistency because A) it doesn’t affect

A picture is worth 1024 words I discussed the idea of a time-alignment scheme in the article Delays, Delays, Delays.  The idea is that signals which have a mechanical delay of some kind (gas transport time, for example) can be time-aligned with signals that have a