Programming and developing applications, Programming languages, Packaged application programs – Measurement Computing PCI-DAS08 User Manual

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Chapter 3

Programming and Developing Applications

After following the installation instructions in Chapter 2, your board should now be installed and ready for use.
Although the board is part of the larger DAS family, there is no correspondence among registers for different
boards. Software written at the register level for other DAS models will not function correctly with the PCI-
DAS08 board.

Programming languages

Measurement Computing’s Universal Library™ provides access to board functions from a variety of Windows
programming languages. If you are planning to write programs, or would like to run the example programs for
Visual Basic

or any other language, refer to the Universal Library User's Guide (available on our web site at

www.mccdaq.com/PDFmanuals/sm-ul-user-guide.pdf

).

Packaged application programs

Many packaged application programs, such as SoftWIRE

and HP-VEE™, now have drivers for your board. If

the package you own does not have drivers for the board, please fax or e-mail the package name and the
revision number from the install disks. We will research the package for you and advise how to obtain drivers.

Some application drivers are included with the Universal Library package, but not with the application package.
If you have purchased an application package directly from the software vendor, you may need to purchase our
Universal Library and drivers. Please contact us by phone, fax or e-mail:

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Phone: 508-946-5100 and follow the instructions for reaching Tech Support.

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Fax: 508-946-9500 to the attention of Tech Support

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Email:

[email protected]

Register-level programming

You should use the Universal Library or one of the packaged application programs mentioned above to control
your board. Only experienced programmers should try register-level programming.

If you need to program at the register level in your application, you can find more information in the Register
Map for the PCI-DAS08 Series
(available at

www.mccdaq.com/registermaps/RegMapPCI-DAS08.pdf

).

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