Error: Analog Output underflow event
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I am trying to simultaneously record two analog inputs and create a digital output using a National Instruments DAQ. I cannot get around this error, however, and I have not found any posts that specifically address it. The most confusing part is that I am not actually using any analog outputs! The last valid output is always a little less than half of what it should be. For example, if the output signal is 1e6x1, then the last valid output scan number is 498552. Here is the code:
s = daq.createSession('ni');
Dch = addDigitalChannel(s,'Dev1','Port0/Line0','OutputOnly');
Ach = addAnalogInputChannel(s,'Dev1',0:1,'Voltage');
Ach(2).TerminalConfig = 'SingleEnded';
Ach(2).Range = [-5 5];
s.Rate = 250000/length(Ach);
ActualRate = get(s,'Rate');
L = 2; % number of seconds of each voltage pulse
TotalTime = 8; % total output signal length in seconds
n = TotalTime/L/2; % number of times to repeat a pair of pulses
tempOutputSignal = [5*ones(1,L*ActualRate) zeros(1,L*ActualRate)];
OutputSignal = repmat(tempOutputSignal,1,n)';
OTime = linspace(0,TotalTime,length(OutputSignal));
figure, plot(OTime,OutputSignal);
s.queueOutputData(OutputSignal);
duration = s.DurationInSeconds;
[data,time] = s.startForeground;
Update: I have worked on this issue through the National Instruments forum and can say with some certainty now that it is not a hardware issue, but is, in fact, an issue with the code. Please help!
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Sarah Miller
on 6 Mar 2018
Any update on this, I am getting an identical issue without and analog output. The underflow event always happen in the last second when there is just under half number of samples as the s.Rate.
cecile conrad
on 2 May 2022
@Sarah Miller / @Daniel did you figure out what the problem was? I have the same error and am not able to figure it out with the example listed below.
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