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Definition

Category

Device category. It can be filtered from the dropdowns

Type

Sensor type. A sensor is either an input or an output

Device

Device name.

Name

Sensor name. These names match the pin names on the device.

Description

Editable description.

Unit

The unit as per the device documentation.

Base Unit

An editable base unit, for readability purposes.

Base Factor

Editable factor to append to the base unit.

Legacy I/O

I/O Type

Available types :

• DA: Analog output
• AD: Analog input
• DO: Static digital output
• DI: Static digital input
• TO: Timed-stamped digital output
• TI: Timed-stamped digital input

I/O Number

Unique index of the connection in the target configuration files

Data logger

Record

Select the checkbox if the sensor should be recorded by the datalogger

Group

Signal group in which the signal should be recorded. 

Trigger

Signal group trigger. Only one signal per signal group may be designated as the trigger source. Non-triggered acquisition becomes active by default when no signal is selected as the trigger source.

I/O Interface

I/O Factor

When using analog I/Os, this is used as signal conditioning to fit the voltage range of the simulator analog card. For a signal going out of the simulation, the signal value is divided by the I/O Factor. For a signal coming into the simulation, the signal value is multiplied by the I/O Factor.

I/O connection

An I/O connection, or data point, is a connection to an element of the I/O Interfaces.

It consists of 3 parameters:

• I/O Exchanger name: the name of the exchanger
• Datapoint name: the definition of the data point. It can represent a single I/O connection or a bundle of connections, which are differentiated by the index.
• Datapoint index: the index of the instance of the data point. If there is a single element in the data point name, the index is -1. Otherwise, the index ranges from [0, n-1], n being the number of elements in the bundle.

In the Python API, the exchanger name matches the part before the first "/" of the I/O connection. The datapoint name is the second part after the first "/". The index