{"id":3388,"date":"2019-02-12T16:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyflexdoc.wpengine.com\/usage-help-manual\/17-i-o-systems\/ao_transfer\/"},"modified":"2021-05-25T17:03:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T17:03:42","slug":"ao_transfer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/14-i-o-systems\/ao_transfer\/","title":{"rendered":"ao_transfer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Purpose:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>Translate REAL_VARIABLE values to scaled output values that represent values to be transferred to an analog output channel by one or more AO device drivers.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Enter:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ao_transfer<\/strong> &lt;priority&gt; &lt;process_interval&gt; [+c] &amp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Where:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<div>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/> <\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>priority<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Specify the task priority.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>interval<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Specify a process interval: FAS|MED|SLO|WARP, typically FAS.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>+c<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<p>Optional. Specify this flag to indicate a critical task.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Example:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ao_transfer<\/strong> 18 FAS +c &amp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Notes:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">The scaled values range from 0 to 1.0 and can be observed by searching for ANALOG OUTPUTS with the &#8216;dump_it&#8221; utility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">Applications such as &#8220;ao_specs&#8221;, &#8220;ctrl_specs&#8221;, and &#8220;var_transfer&#8221; will send messages to &#8220;ao_transfer&#8221; with the name of a REAL_VARIABLE and the scaling information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">There should be only one instance of &#8220;ao_transfer&#8221; running to handle all AO channels. It should running at a rate appropriate for the maximum update rate possible for the AO devices. Typically, this is the FAS rate. Do not start ao_transfer with more than one process interval specified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 20px;\">The &#8220;ao_transfer&#8221; app is launched in the \/cell\/go.scp startup script.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: Translate REAL_VARIABLE values to scaled output values that represent values to be transferred to an analog output channel by one or more AO device drivers. Enter: ao_transfer &lt;priority&gt; &lt;process_interval&gt; [+c] &amp; Where: priority Specify the task priority. interval Specify a process interval: FAS|MED|SLO|WARP, typically FAS. +c Optional. Specify this flag to indicate a critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"parent":1964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3388","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3388\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}