ADLINK ACL-8216 - Manual (Page 8)

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How to Use This Guide
This manual is designed to help you use the ACL-8216. The manual
describes how to modify various settings on the ACL-8216 card to meet your
requirements. It is divided into six chapters:
• Chapter 1, "Introduction," gives an overview of the product features,
applications, and specifications.
• Chapter 2, "Installation," describes how to install the ACL-8216. The
layout of ACL-8216 is shown, the switch setting for base address,
and jumper setting for analog input channel configuration, reference
voltage setting, trigger source, interrupt level and DMA channel are
specified. The connectors' pin assignment and how to connect the
outside signal are described.
• Chapter 3, "Registers format," describes the details of register format
and structure of the ACL-8216, this information is very important for
the programmers who want to control the hardware by low-level
programming.
• Chapter 4, "Operation Theorem" describes how to operate the ACL-
8216. The A/D, D/A, DIO and timer/counter functions are introduced.
Also, some programming concepts are specified.
• Chapter 5, "C/C++ Library," describes the C++ Library for DOS
environment.
• Chapter 6, "Calibration and utilities," describes how to calibrate the
ACL-8216 for accurate measurement.