Technical data

The VEE Pro 8 Fundamentals 1
Agilent VEE - Practical Graphical Programming 33
Validating the number of data points collected
1 Select Menu Bar => Display => AlphaNumeric; place it to the right of
the Formula; change its Title to Final Count.
2 Connect the output of Formula to the input of Final Count adding "1"
to For Count.
Determining the elapsed time to run a program
1 Select Menu Bar => Device => Timer; place it to the right of Random
Numbers; change its Title to Elapsed Time.
2 Connect the upper Do object output pin to the Elapsed Time top input
pin.
3 Connect the lower Do object output pin to the Elapsed Time bottom
input pin.
4 Connect the lower Do object bottom pin to the bottom- left (XEQ)
Collector pin.
5 Run this program; it should look like Figure 1- 23.
NOTE
The Formula object and its Final Count (Alphanumeric) object confirm the number of
loops performed by the For Count object. Elapsed Time (the timer) indicates
approximately how long it takes for the loops to run, whatever the number of loops.