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PulseBlaster

II. Installation

Installing the PulseBlaster Driver 

     The PulseBlaster uses the Spinapi driver and control library. The latest version of this driver can 
bedownloaded from:

http://www.pulseblaster.com/CD/spinapi/

 

This URL contains both the driver as well as the most recent installation guide. Please refer to that document 
for instructions on how to properly install the drivers.

III. Programming the PulseBlaster

The PulseBlaster Interpreter

The PulseBlaster board is now programmable via the 

PulseBlaster Interpreter

, which is a free 

programming utility provided by SpinCore for writing pulse programs.  This easy-to-use editor allows you 
create, edit, save and run your pulse sequence.    

Figure 2:

 The PulseBlaster Interpreter

Please follow the link below for the most recent installation instructions and documentation:

http://www.pulseblaster.com/CD/spbi/

It is also possible to write pulse programs and control the PulseBlaster with C functions.  For more information 
on this, please see Appendix I.

http://www.spincore.com

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Summary of Contents for PulseBlaster PB24-100-32k-PCI

Page 1: ...PulseBlaster PCI Board Rev 01 Owner s Manual Models PB24 100 PCI PB24 100 32k PCI SpinCore Technologies Inc http www spincore com...

Page 2: ...gies Inc reserves the right to make changes to the product s or information herein without notice PulseBlasterDDS PulseBlaster SpinCore and the SpinCore Technologies Inc logos are trademarks of SpinCo...

Page 3: ...nstalling the PulseBlaster Driver 8 III Programming the PulseBlaster 8 The PulseBlaster Interpreter 8 IV Connecting to the PulseBlaster Board 9 Connector Information 9 DB 25 and JP300 TTL Output Signa...

Page 4: ...PulseBlaster Appendix II Sample C Program 15 Contact Information 17 http www spincore com 5 19 2006 4...

Page 5: ...is that the execution time of instructions is user programmable This feature makes the PulseBlaster processor capable of executing complex patterns at greatly varying update rates ranging from nanose...

Page 6: ...to a 50 ns pulse delay update with a 100 MHz clock The external memory models up to 32k words have a nine clock period minimum instruction cycle Instruction set PulseBlaster s design features a set of...

Page 7: ...pulse interval for 32k memory words models at 100 MHz 2 years longest pulse interval 10 ns pulse interval resolution at 100 MHz 32k instructions max memory space 512 instructions for internal memory...

Page 8: ...ter The PulseBlaster Interpreter The PulseBlaster board is now programmable via the PulseBlaster Interpreter which is a free programming utility provided by SpinCore for writing pulse programs This ea...

Page 9: ...is active pin 2 GND When a falling edge is detected e g when shorting pins 1 2 it initiates code execution This trigger will also restart execution of a program from the beginning of the code if it i...

Page 10: ...elf control by one of the fields of the instruction word the shortest being five clock cycles for 512 memory word models and the longest being 2 52 clock cycles All instructions have the same format a...

Page 11: ...tion 0 CONTINUE Ignored Program execution continues to next instruction 1 STOP Ignored Stop execution of program Note all TTL values remain from previous instruction and analog outputs turn off 2 LOOP...

Page 12: ...and facilitate the construction of pulse program instructions IIn order to use these functions the DLL spinapi dll the library file libspinapi a for mingw spinapilibgcc for borland and spinapi lib fo...

Page 13: ...to be executed Please see Table 2 for details int inst_data data to be used with the previous inst field Please see Table 2 for details int length duration of this pulse program instruction specified...

Page 14: ...rt_programming PULSE_PROGRAM Instruction 0 Continue to instruction 1 in 100ms Flags 0xFFFFFF OPCODE CONTINUE start pb_inst 0xFFFFFF CONTINUE 0 200 0 ms Instruction 1 Continue to instruction 2 in 100ms...

Page 15: ...by hand Instructions start at 0 and count up sub 5 Instruction format int pb_inst int flags int inst int inst_data int length Instruction 0 Jump to Subroutine at Instruction 4 in 1s start pb_inst 0xF...

Page 16: ...om Subroutine to Instruction 1 in 5 s pb_inst 0xF0F0F0 RTS 0 500 0 ms End of pulse program pb_stop_programming Trigger the pulse program pb_start Read the status register status pb_read_status printf...

Page 17: ...PulseBlaster Contact Information Email sales spincore com Web http www spincore com Product URL http www pulseblaster com CD PulseBlaster PCI SP2 http www spincore com 5 19 2006 17...

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