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This control selects the displayed configuration section, the parameters of which are then shown in the dialog box below the "Parameter Group" field. The groups available are:

The Module ID has two functions:

The autocalibration is enabled by default to obtain maximum measurement accuracy. The autocalibration function compensates for component aging and minimizes the effects of temperature on accuracy. The calibration normally takes approximately 2 seconds, so we recommend increasing the host-target communication time-out in the model configuration parameters to allow for this. The calibration is not re-executed during normal start/stop operation once the target application has been downloaded. All input channels are calibrated to a single internal voltage reference. Offset and gain error corrections for each channel are determined during the autocalibration process and are applied to each channel in real-time during data acquisition.

Warning: Disabling the autocalibration may cause the wrong values when the input range is changed.

Select either Initiator (default) or Target. If Initiator is selected, A/D conversions are initiated by this module and the module outputs a pulse train to optionally trigger other IO106 I/O modules where "Inter-Module Synchronization" is set to Target. The pulse train is sent on the I/O connector SYNC I/O pin. Ground is on the SYNC RTN pin (see the I/O pin mapping section for pin numbers).

If your target machine contains a single IO106 I/O module, then Initiator must be selected. If Target is selected, the module itself does not start its A/D conversions, but instead triggers them using a pulse train from another IO106 I/O module where "Inter-Module Synchronization" is set to Initiator. The pulse train is received on the SYNC I/O pin (ground is on the SYNC RTN pin). With this setting, there must be at least one other IO106 I/O module present with "Inter-Module Synchronization" set to Initiator, and the modules' SYNC I/O and SYNC RTN pins must be physically wired together (SYNC I/O to SYNC I/O, SYNC RTN to SYNC RTN). To use this feature with more than two IO106 I/O modules, all SYNC I/O pins and all SYNC RTN pins must be wired together (see the I/O pin mapping section for pin numbers). Exactly one IO106 I/O module must be set to Initiator and all others to Target.

When using the "Inter-Module Synchronization" setting, the initiator must use the Start Conversion driver block, and the target the Read Channels driver block. Otherwise, with a single module, use the Analog input driver block to read the channels.

	Note
	DMA cannot be used with inter-module synchronization.

There are two approaches for mapping this block to a specific I/O module installed in your target machine. All modules of the same type must be configured using the same method.

The number of channels to read. This parameter is a scalar value and must be a multiple of 2. The IO106 I/O module has 32 input channels in single-ended mode (see "Input Coupling" field below), 31 (30) input channels in pseudo-differential mode, and 16 channels in differential mode. This field is restricted to multiples of 2 because the IO106 I/O module returns two channels with each read of the analog input data FIFO. If you, for example, want to acquire 13 channels, define the "Number of Channels" as 14 and ignore the last channel (14) in your model. In single-ended and differential input coupling mode, the first channel returned by either the Analog input or the Read Channels driver block is always channel 1 (or 0 according to the IO106 reference manual), and the last channel is always the n'th channel based on the "Number of Channels" setting. In pseudo-differential input coupling mode, channel 1 is used as a common reference for all other input channels and its value is of no interest. Therefore, when in this mode, the Analog input and Read Channels driver blocks only output channels 2 to n.

The input range for all A/D channels. This driver does not allow different ranges for individual channels.

Either Single-ended, Pseudo-differential or Differential. The same setting applies to all input channels. For more information see the "Number of Channels" field above, and the IO106 reference manual.