Digital Probe

Description of the Digital Probe component in Schematic Editor, which adds a signal to the digital signal list in HIL SCADA.

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Figure 1. Digital probe icon

Description

The Digital Probe component adds a signal to the digital signal list in HIL SCADA.

The signal connected to Digital Probe can be also read using HIL API commands read_digital_signal and read_digital_signals.

Any signal can be connected to a digital probe. The value of the signal will be converted to Boolean. Non 0 values are converted as True and 0 is converted to False

If the input is a vector, HIL SCADA will split the signal so that each vector element can be read separately.

Enabling the Signal Streaming property allows the acquisition and logging of the signal.

Ports

  • In (in)
    • Port to which the signal intended to be measured is connected.
      • Supported types: uint, int, real.
      • Vector support: yes

Properties

  • Override signal name
    • Check this checkbox to override the signal name. Instead of using the default signal names (for example, Subsystem1.Subsystem2.Probe1), the user can specify a custom signal name.
  • Signal streaming
    • Check this checkbox for allowing acquisition and logging of the signal at a medium sample rate. For more details on signal streaming, please refer to link : Signal streaming
  • Execution rate
    • Type in the desired signal processing execution rate. This value must be compatible with other signal processing components of the same circuit: the value must be a multiple of the fastest execution rate in the circuit. There can be up to four different execution rates, but they must all be multiple of the basic simulation timestep. To specify the execution rate, you can use either decimal (e.g. 0.001) or exponential values (e.g. 1e-3) in seconds. Alternatively, you can type in ‘inherit’ in which case the component will be assigned execution rate based on the execution rate of the components it is receiving input from.