DCAF has a lot of features and capabilities that aren't yet well-documented or marketed. We will continue to improve our more detailed documentation over time, but in the meantime a weekly blog covering lesser known features and capabilities seems like a great way to start getting the word out.
Here is a list of topics that I had in mind in no particular order:
- Executing plugins Asynchronously using the Standard Engine
- Standard Engine error handling options explained
- Standard Engine priorities explained
- Using the DCAF GraphViz generator
- Building and using plugins that configure themselves at runtime
- Execution engines as framework plugins
- Timing sources as framework plugins
- Building plugins as source distributions/packed libraries that are loaded from disk
- Reloading new configurations without stopping the main VI
- Accessing engine data using the CVT
- Default values explained
- Tips and tricks for building advanced plugins
- Creating new forms of scaling plugins
- Understanding engine safe-state behavior
- Manage and share FPGA references across plugins and user code
I hope to get started on these next week! Please let me know in the comments below if there are particular topics of interest. I'd be happy to add new items to the list as well. If I don't hear anything I'll just start picking them out at random.
