Cronologic Ndigo5G-10, User Manual

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3 Driver Programming API
The API is a DLL with C linkage. The functions provided by the DLL are declared in
Ndigo interface.h .
3.1 Constants
#define NDIGO CHANNEL COUNT 4
The number of analog input channels.
#define NDIGO GATE COUNT 4
The number of gating blocks.
#define NDIGO TRIGGER COUNT 16
The number of triggers. Two per analog input, one per digital input plus some specials.
#define NDIGO ADD TRIGGER COUNT 6
Additional set of triggers for digital inputs.
3.2 Initialization
int ndigo count devices( int *error code , char **error message)
Return the number of boards that are supported by this driver in the system.
int ndigo get default init parameters( ndigo init parameters *init)
Get a set of default parameters to feed into ndigo init() . This must always be used to initialize
the ndigo init parameter structure .
ndigo device *ndigo init( ndigo init parameters *params , int *error code , char **error message)
Open and initialize the Ndigo board with the given index. With error code and error message
the user must provide pointers where to buffers where error information should be written by
the driver. The buffer for the error message must by at least 80 chars long.
Params is a structure of type ndigo init parameters that must be completely initialized.
int ndigo close( ndigo device *device)
Finalize the driver for this device.
3.2.1 Structure ndigo init parameters
int version
Must be set to NDIGO API VERSION
int card index
The index in the list of Ndigo5G boards that should be initialized. There might be multiple
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