Module settings

Basic settings

Module Type (information only)

Indicates the type of the current module.

Locked

You can lock a module to avoid unintentional or unauthorized changing of the module settings.

Enabled

Enable the module to record signals.

Name

You can enter a name for the module here.

Comment

You can enter a comment or description of the module here. This will be displayed as a tooltip in the signal tree.

Module No.

This internal reference number of the module determines the order of the modules in the signal tree of ibaPDA client and ibaAnalyzer.

Timebase

All signals of the module are sampled on this timebase.

Use module name as prefix

This option puts the module name in front of the signal names.

Text encoding

You can select the type of text encoding or the code page here for a correct interpretation and display of the received text data for inputs as well as of the text data to be sent for outputs. Available for selection are, beside system locale according to the Windows system settings (default) and UTF-8 Unicode, all other encodings.

Shift register

Source signals

Select the text signal(s) here that are to be processed in the shift register.

Trigger signal

Select the digital signal with the rising edge of which the current value of the source texts is stored and the values in the tab are shifted one position.

Reset signal

Select the digital signal here with whose rising edge all values in the shift register are cleared.

Depth

Select the desired memory depth ([n]) of the shift register. The values can be adjusted from 1 to 64.

Remember last values

If you enable this option, then in the case of a new I/O configuration or when restarting the acquisition, the last known values are loaded instead of the default values (Analog, Column Default tab).