Spectrum Controls 140 ACI 051 00sc User Manual

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Installation Instructions
32-Channel Analog Input Module
Quantum Series 140 AxI 05x 00sc

3.5

Spectrum I/O Configuration Utility

“SCIOCFG.EXE” is a utility provided on the install disk under the typical
pathname “A:\CONCEPT\SCIOCFG.EXE”. “SCIOCFG.EXE” is
intended to help users configure Spectrum I/O when using Concept. This
tool is intended to make the configuration of I/O modules supplied by
Spectrum Controls easy to accomplish when using Concept.

Version 2.1 of the Concept programming software introduced the tool for
importing ModConnect module definition files into the Concept database.
This allows Concept users to configure ModConnect I/O such as the 140
AxI 05x 00sc. However, Concept V2.1 does not provide a means for
ModConnect I/O developers to design their own I/O configuration menus.
Instead, Concept provides a generic interface where the user must enter
configuration parameters in hexadecimal values. The Spectrum I/O
modules are designed to be feature rich with an efficient use of registers.
This requires the user to be intimately aware of the initialization param-
eters structure in order to perform simple I/O configuration changes.
Simply stated, users can calculate the correct hexadecimal values for the
configuration parameters but it is a tedious task, SCIOCFG is designed to
relieve the user of this burden.

SCIOCFG presents the user with user friendly selection lists using
standard Windows interfaces. SCIOCFG also automatically constrains all
parameters to legal values during the data entry process.

SCIOCFG may be run in one of two modes, stand alone mode, or syn-
chronous mode. In the stand alone mode, the user configures the data for
a given module as desired. SCIOCFG then presents the parameters in
hexadecimal values so the user may then manually transfer this data to
Concept at a later time.

In the synchronous mode, SCIOCFG runs in the background waiting for
the user to select the generic I/O parameters configuration menu for any
one of the modules supported. When this occurs, SCIOCFG reads the
data from the Concept generic I/O parameter configuration menu, and
activates the appropriate I/O parameter configuration menu. When the
user clicks on the SCIOCFG OK button, the new data is sent back to
Concept.