Blackrock LED Driver¶

Available on macOS

Description¶

Interface to a Blackrock LED array driver

Signature¶

iodevice/blackrock_led_driver

Optional Parameters¶

running¶

Variable to set to true when the LED program starts running, false when it stops

temp_a¶

Variable in which to store thermistor readout from bank A

temp_b¶

Variable in which to store thermistor readout from bank B

temp_c¶

Variable in which to store thermistor readout from bank C

temp_d¶

Variable in which to store thermistor readout from bank D

temp_calc¶

Options: 5k

10k

none
Default: none

Calculation to use to convert raw thermistor readouts to temperatures in degrees Celsius.

Normally, either 5k or 10k should be used, depending on the connector type. If none is specified, the raw thermistor readouts (divided by 1000) are reported.

simulate_device¶

Default: NO

If YES, simulation mode will be enabled. In this mode, the actual LED driver hardware is not required (and will be ignored if present). All LED driver actions will execute, although communication with the driver hardware will be omitted, and running will be updated at the appropriate times. However, thermistor readout requests will not update the corresponding variables. If you need to test your experiment’s response to temperature changes, you must assign values to the temperature variables yourself.

autostart¶

Default: NO

If YES, the device will start I/O automatically (as if by an implicit Start IO Device action) when the experiment starts running.

Note: Device I/O will always stop automatically when the experiment stops running, irrespective of this setting.

alt¶

Alternative device to use if this one fails to initialize (e.g. because the required hardware is not available). If #allowAltFailover is set to 0 or false, this parameter is ignored.

Placement¶

Allowed at top level:	Yes
Allowed parent:	Folder