Handle the hardware

Assumptions:

• You have an Olympus FluoView LSM (ähem...)
• You have an AD-Card supported by NIDAQ which samples at least at some 100kHz 
  to get best S/N-Ratios. I have used the quite new 6111E-Card (max. 5MHz at 12 bit)
• Your AD-Card can make digital outputs (most should)
• Your AD-Card can handle triggered acquisition (most should)
• If you have a BNC 2090-Adapter to connect your AD-Card to the BNC-World, the following

instructions are most easy.

Installing NIDAQ

• Stick to the instructions of the card for installation.

Testing NIDAQ for FluoLab

• FluoLab uses self triggered input. This means, that the Digital output at DIO 1 must be connected

to the PF10/TRIG-Signal. The card will wait for hardware triggered input and be triggered by a
DIO 1 TTL-high signal. This makes timing most precise, but it needs to have a proper hardware
setup. With the BNC 2090-Adapter the cabling is as indicated below:



• Test the ACH0 with some voltage and see the input via the PM_Voltage_Demo.vi from FluoLabDemo.llb.

With PM_Voltage held to zero, the panel on the right side shows an untriggered signal of ACH0.
• Test the DIO 1 signal used for triggering with the Test_Digital_Input.vi from FluoLabDemo.llb.
• If you have properly connected the DIO 1 signal to the trigger input, everthing should be OK. Try the

My_FluoView.vi from FluoLabDemo.llb to get the first signals.

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