Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

<[email protected]> · Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:07:22 +0000

Hi,

I have a waveform record which retrieves data from 2 channels on a VME card upon the card generating an interrupt.  I then process this data into channel 1 and channel 2 via two subArray records.  Channel 2 data appears immediately following the channel 1 data in the waveform record and is of the same size.

subArray record 1 has INDX = 0, NELM = size of data (calculated from waveform.NORD/2 via calc record), MALM = 16384
subArray record 2 has INDX = size of data, NELM = size of data, MALM = 16384

The maximum samples that the VME card will generate is 16384 per channel.

When I am at my maximum number of samples, I only see 1 sample in subArray record 2,  INDX is truncated to MALM - 1 and NORD is 1.  As number of samples is reduced NORD increases.  It seems that I am only allowed to store (MALM - INDX) samples rather than MALM.

Should it not be the case that I can store the number of sample allocated in MALM?  Otherwise I will be allocating memory which I will never be using, in this case double the amount required in subArray 2 as MALM must equal (INDX + NELM) rather than simply NELM.

Clearly I can get the system operating by setting MALM sufficiently high in subArray 2, but it seems that MALM isn't quite doing what it would be expected to do?

Graham-- 
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System