Psychtoolbox>Datapixx.{mex*} subfunction

[nextBufferAddress, underflow, overflow] = Datapixx(‘WriteDoutBuffer’, bufferData [, bufferAddress=8e6]);

Download digital output data from local host to a Datapixx internal digital
waveform buffer. Digital output waveforms can be used to generate complex
triggering sequences and any other arbitrary digital waveforms. -“bufferData” is
a 1D vector of digital output values. Each element of the vector contains new
values for DOUT bits 0-15. -“bufferAddress” is the byte address in Datapixx RAM
where the buffer should start. Specifying a bufferAddress of -1 will cause
bufferData to be streamed to the end of the buffer which was last defined in
SetDoutSchedule, and initialized by a call to WriteDoutBuffer with bufferAddress
not set to -1.
-“nextBufferAddress” is the next Datapixx address after bufferData has been
downloaded. Multiple contiguous digital waveforms can be downloaded by passing
the returned nextBufferAddress of one waveform as the bufferAddress of the next
waveform. The Datapixx typically has 128 MB of internal RAM which is shared
between all I/O subsystems (DAC/ADC/AUDIO, etc). Datapixx(‘GetRamSize’) can be
used to query the quantity of RAM in your system.
-“underflow” or “overflow” are set to 1 if streaming calls to WriteDoutBuffer
supply insufficient, or too much, data. If bufferAddress is passed a value of
-1, then WriteDoutBuffer is streaming continuous waveform data into a circular
buffer. Streaming playback must ensure that the provided data always remains
ahead of the playback position, without providing more data than can fit in the
playback buffer. The freeBufferFrames field returned by GetDoutStatus indicates
the maximum number of frames which can be written by WriteDoutBuffer. If more
than this number of frames is written, an overflow occurs and there will be a
glitch in the generated waveform. If the streaming data is not supplied quickly
enough, then old data will be played, also causing a glitch. In addition to
returning underflow/overflow flags, these errors will increment the
numStreamUnderflows/numStreamOverflows fields returned by GetDoutStatus.
See DatapixxDout*Demo files for examples.

###See also: SetDoutSchedule