DAQ_TRIGGER.INTERNAL_TIMER

Typical use-cases for the different DAQ_TRIGGER modes of Worker_DAQ. Variations are possible.

Internal to the Worker_DAQ class instance will be a software timer of type QTimer that will periodically tick, see the above diagram. Every tick of the timer will trigger an update in Worker_DAQ, i.e. make it perform a single execution of its DAQ_function member.

Typically, the DAQ_function could instruct the device to report back on a requested quantity: a so-called query operation. In this case, the PC is acting as a master to the peripheral I/O device. Either the requested quantity still needs to get measured by the device and, hence, there is a delay before the device can reply. Or the requested quantity was already measured and only has to be retreived from a memory buffer on the device. The latter is faster.

Example:

from dvg_qdeviceio import QDeviceIO, DAQ_TRIGGER

qdev = QDeviceIO(my_device)
qdev.create_worker_DAQ(
    DAQ_trigger     = DAQ_TRIGGER.INTERNAL_TIMER,
    DAQ_function    = my_DAQ_function,
    DAQ_interval_ms = 10,  # 10 ms --> 100 Hz
)
qdev.start()

Attention

The typical maximum granularity of QTimer is around ~1 ms, depending on the operating system.