SAMPLE_HOLD(9)

✨ SAMPLE_HOLD(9) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the sample_hold page — it's a HAL Component and honestly it does exactly what it says on the tin: it samples, and then it holds. iconic behavior fr fr 💖

It's all about grabbing a value and just... keeping it. No cap.

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🎀 NAME 🎀

sample_hold — Sample and Hold 💅

Like, it samples. And then it holds. Main character energy, truly.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

loadrt sample_hold [count=N|names=name1[,name2...]]

Load it up with loadrt, and you can either say how many you want with count=N or name them yourself with names=name1[,name2...]. Your call, queen 👑

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🦋 FUNCTIONS 🦋

• sample-hold.N — this is the function, and yes the N stands in for the instance number. One per copy you loaded. slay ✨

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💜 PINS 💜

• sample-hold.N.in s32 in — the s32 value that's coming in. This is the thing being sampled, bestie.
• sample-hold.N.hold bit in — a bit that says whether to hold. That's the whole vibe.
• sample-hold.N.out s32 out — the s32 value going out. The held one. periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• tristate(9) — go read this one too, iykyk 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Stephen Wille Padnos wrote this. absolute legend, we stan 🫶

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📜 LICENSE 📜

GPL — free as in freedom, bestie 💖

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that 🍓 this was LinuxCNC Documentation dropping knowledge on 2026-03-17, and that's the version we're on. mwah 💅✨