Lesson 3 – Setting Up the Digital Capturing
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Parallel Transfer Mode 
In serial mode, only one pin must be selected in the vec 
variable pins field. When selecting "serial", an additional 
entry field is made available in the dialog window to specify 
the number of bits per sample. With n specified as the number 
of bits per sample, the first n captured bits (after the initial 
discard) of the selected pin will be interpreted as the first n-
bit sample, and so on. The first bit of each series of n bits 
becomes the Most Significant Bit (MSB) of the n-bit sample, 
the n-th bit becomes the Least Significant Bit (LSB).
Serial Transfer Mode
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Fill in the remaining specifications of the vector variable:
(The example below illustrates how these specification determine 
the sub-set of captured data.)
init discard: the number of initial samples to be skipped.
nr vec per frame: the number of samples (the term vector is 
here used as a synonym for a n-bit sample) that form one 
frame. A frame is a block of consecutive samples.
Note: If the value of nr vec interdisc is > 0, the number that 
must given here is the number of not discarded samples in the 
frame, that is (number of consecutive samples) DIV (nr vec 
interdisc).
nr of frames: the number of frames
nr vector interdisc: the number of samples (the term vector is 
here used as a synonym for a n-bit sample) to be skipped 
between samples. For example, with a value of 1 this allows 
you to read every second sample from the vector memory 
(Sample 1, 3, 5, ...). This would retrieve the samples as if they 
pin_1
pin_2
pin_3
1 0 1 1 0 ...
0 1 0 0 1 ...
1 0 1 1 0 ...
Sample (3 bits)
1 0 1
0 1 0
Captured Data
pin_1
1 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 ...
Sample (3 bits)
1 0 1
1 0 0
Captured Data