If you select the Fixed Window algorithm for DL, an EOI pulse input is highly recommended. This EOI attribute can be any binary type object, as long as the following requirements are met:
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A permanent communication path must exist between this attribute and the DLLR object; therefore, the EOI point and DLLR object should reside on the same engine.
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The attribute must be a numerical attribute, in which a change from 0 to 1 indicates the end of interval and the beginning of the next interval. The EOI Status attribute is set to Off Normal when the object supplying the EOI pulse becomes offline or unreliable to the DLLR object.
If the object supplying the EOI pulse fails to report the end of interval to the DLLR object more than 30 seconds after the expected reporting, the DLLR object sets its EOI Status attribute to Off Normal. If DLLR does not receive the end of interval pulse when the interval time elapses, it synthesizes its own EOI pulse and starts a new interval. A received actual EOI pulse restarts the interval again.
The Active Elevation attribute is set to zero every time an EOI pulse is synthesized. Because the synthesized intervals and the actual intervals might be out of synch, the Fixed Window algorithm cannot allow more than the strictly allowed energy amount to be consumed during the first half of a synthesized interval. When the actual EOI pulse comes back earlier than expected, a new interval starts immediately.