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Provide brief description of the DAQ delay for switching between channels.
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docs/source/user_guide/acquiring_home.rst

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Known Issues
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This page lists known issues with the **navigate** software that currently do not have
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an obvious solution. Please report any other issues you encounter on GitHub.
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Slow Channel Switching
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When we operate multiple channels, there is a clear time delay between channels.
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This is most obvious when operating in the continuous mode, or when you are acquiring
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a Z-stack in the Per Z Laser Cycling mode.
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This delay is associated with the time it takes to load the waveforms onto the DAQ
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card. One possible solution is to write the waveforms to different channels on the
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DAQ, but this would require that the analog/digital signals be combined physically.
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For example, if CH00 was delivered on AO0, and CH01 was delivered on AO1, but both
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were communicating with a single laser, then the signals could be combined and
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delivered to the laser. However, a more obvious solution would be to reduce the time
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necessary to load the waveforms onto the DAQ card. One immediate way to do this is by
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reducing the DAQ sampling rate, but this would reduce the resolution of the waveforms
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. More sophisticated DAQ systems, including an FPGA, could also be used to eliminate
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this delay.

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