Frequency Measurement With PXIe-4081

Updated Jul 23, 2024

Reported In

Hardware

  • PXIe-4081

Issue Details

I see that I can ask DMM to measure and give me directly the frequency of an AC signal.
Is this frequency calculated on board or by the NI-DMM driver?

Solution

Based on looking deeper into the circuit, we noticed that frequency counting happens in the following way:

The main frequency counting happens in the FPGA, before the FPGA, the sinus signal transforms to the pulses and then in the FPGA implemented counter and based on it making the frequency counting.