Loop Time

Operator Menu Location: Generic Hardware Operators Misc

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Functional Description:
The Loop Time generic hardware operator provides access to a system information resource in a physical module. When the generic operator is linked to a specific module, it will report on the computational performance of that module.
The operator has two analog outputs. Output is the user-defined target loop-time performance for the top-level schema executing in the module that the operator is linked to. Output is the actual loop-time performance reported by that module during its last compute cycle. (Actual loop-time performance refers to how much time actually elapsed while the controller executed the last complete scan of all operators. Ideally, the actual loop-time performance should be less than the target performance at every scan. While this condition holds, the controller remains idle for that fraction of time necessary to match the target performance.)

Both outputs are expressed in seconds.
User-Defined Properties:

Object Name. A string label that identifies the operator

Comments: None.

See Also:
Self-Diagnostics, Module Hardware Information, Module Active