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Introduction
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1.1 Features
The ACL-8454 Counter/Timer and digital I/O Card provides the following 
advanced features: 
• Default 6 counters/timers are installed and it is expandable to 12
counters/timers at most
• Multi-configurations of counters/timers: 
• Flexible setting for each independent counter, the clock source 
could be external, internal or cascaded. The gate signal is external 
controlled or internal cascaded signal. 
• 8 digital output channels 
• 16 digital input channels shared with the same signal lines with 
external gate control and external clock input
• Two interrupt sources 
• The first interrupt source comes from output of counter #6 and this 
signal is jumper selectable to one of 4 IRQ channels
• The second interrupt source comes from either internal periodic or
external source. This signal is jumper selectable to one of 5 IRQ 
channels. 
• Synchronized 4 channels frequency measurement is possible 
• 37-pin D-type female connector 
• AT-Bus and compact size (Half-size only) 
1.2 Applications
• Event
counter
• Frequency
generator
• Frequency
synthesizer
• Pulse
width
measurement
• Low level pulse generator 
• Time delay 
• Industry 
automation
• Watchdog
timer
• Laboratory and Industrial automation