Dear LabView community,
I am currently working on a project using a photodiode that will output a pulse train. As a first approach we are simply interested in the amount of pulses in a certain time interval. For this we would like to use the counter input of a NI-USB-6212 device which has an internal baseclock of 80 MHz.
The pulse train put out by the photodiode will have pulses of a total pulse width of ~ 10 ns and the device can output pulses every 30 ns, so it can have a maximum frequency of 33 MHz. The signal might also be aperiodic however, that's why I'm mainly interested in the amount of pulses, not the frequency itself.
Would the device listed above be suitable for this application or do we need to look for something else? Advice is greatly appreciated.
Best
PhotonCoder