Hi Ron,
Thanks for the reply! I was thinking more of a hardware solution, because my project is dealing soley with a hardware module (unless I can identify areas in their own software to improve). They use their own software already, and to implement labview they would have to change a lot about the way they work, which I don't think they'll want to do. They just want me to improve a module that allows an interface between a sensor, and a computer were the sensor can be programmed with software.
So really I'm looking for an addition I can make to the hardware that shows some electronic design skill. However, I wasn't sure if it was even possible to implement hardware than can automatically detect time, I was just thinking that it would be a cool to have a mechanism that can do it automatically (as right now they need to specify this switch time data manually anyway).
Could you please tell me more about your counter suggestion, in order to measure time? I'm not sure how I'd create 'relay switch time' data from a counter.
Thanks a lot man
Jonathan