Micromod Micro-DCI: 53SU6000 COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES - Manual (Page 36)

53SU6000 INSTALLATION AND SETUP GUIDE
28 Introduction
4.5 USING THE DDE SERVER
The 53SU6000 includes a DDE server, udcidde.exe, for use in exporting the real-time data from the Micro-
DCI instruments to a third party DDE client such as Microsoft Excel.
4.6 USING THE OPC SERVER
4.6.1 Specifications
• Compatible with OPC 1.0
• Supports all OPC 2.0 Interfaces except Public Groups and Persistent Files
• Supports OPC Alarms and Events Version 1.0
• Provides access to all Tag.Atom items in all Micro-DCI instruments connected to the PC
• The number of points scanned at rates faster than 2 seconds should be limited to 500
4.6.2 Installation
4.6.3 Configuration
• No configuration of the OPC server is required.
• The Micro-DCI instruments must have tagnames configured for the modules to be accessed.
See
Section 4.2 of this document.
• The Area, Priority and Legend associated with alarms can be configured for each tagname as
described in
Section 4.4 of this document.
APPLICATION NAME udcidde.exe
AVAILABLE TOPICS All module tag names displayed in the Super32 tree view.
AVAILABLE ITEMS The Micro-DCI Global Database atoms.
✎ NOTE Some applications may require that the tagname and atom name be
enclosed within single quotation marks (‘).
For example, in Microsoft Excel: = udcidde|’FIC-101’!’C100’
Step 1: Follow the installation instructions in the Micro-DCI Communications
Services Installation and Setup Guide. Be sure to enter the
udciOPCLocal license key.
Step 2: Install the OPC Data Access 2.0 Components from the main
Micro-DCI Setup menu