BurstIO

For those applications that require small, and possibly non-contiguous, chunks (or bursts) of data with frequently-varying metadata, Burst Input/Output (BurstIO) provides the data transfer containers and interfaces to meet those requirements. This interface only supports the transfer of data vectors: float, double, octet (int8/uint8), short (int16), ushort (uint16), long (int32), ulong (uint32), longlong (int64), and ulonglong(uint64). Similar to Bulk Input/Output (BulkIO), BurstIO provides Burst Signal Related Information (SRI), and a Precision Time stamp but provides this information in-band with each data burst. With the increased overhead requirement for metadata, BurstIO can achieve its highest throughput by grouping multiple bursts into a single transfer, either programmatically or through configurable policy settings, to try and maximize efficiency and limit latency.

• Data Transfers
• Burst Signal Related Information (SRI)
• Multi-out Ports
• Working with Complex Data
• Time Stamps
• Port Statistics