FIFO buffer in RAM on the Motion Coordinator
When transferring files from the PC using either the TextfileLoader App or the texfileloader method in the TrioPC Motion ActiveX, the FIFO is capped at 1024 bytes max size.
This is usually enough to buffer data transfers from the PC so that a program inside the Motion Coordiantor can read out the data at the rate that the program or motion requires.
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