wilbee
New Member
Dear all,
For the project i am doing at university now. I need to use some optical encoders to detect linear motion. Therefore, i chose a ordinary incremental encoders from agilent technologies and a interface chip which will process the signals from the encoder and count the number of increments (up/down). the chip has a 8 bit counter (parallel).
and the problem for me now is to find some way to pass this 8bit information into my PC, so i can plot some real-time data, like dist, vel etc, using packages like LabView.
however, i am having trouble to process this. Although i can pass this 8bit into a DAC and get my PC to acquire the voltage output but I don't think this is a very good idea as i will loss resolution due to this extra processing.
thank you very much first. any help is appreciated.
the part number of the encoder and interface chip are:
HEDS-9720
HCTL-2000
Many thanks
wil :wink:
For the project i am doing at university now. I need to use some optical encoders to detect linear motion. Therefore, i chose a ordinary incremental encoders from agilent technologies and a interface chip which will process the signals from the encoder and count the number of increments (up/down). the chip has a 8 bit counter (parallel).
and the problem for me now is to find some way to pass this 8bit information into my PC, so i can plot some real-time data, like dist, vel etc, using packages like LabView.
however, i am having trouble to process this. Although i can pass this 8bit into a DAC and get my PC to acquire the voltage output but I don't think this is a very good idea as i will loss resolution due to this extra processing.
thank you very much first. any help is appreciated.
the part number of the encoder and interface chip are:
HEDS-9720
HCTL-2000
Many thanks
wil :wink: