Spectrum Controls 140 ACI 052 00sc User Manual

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Installation Instructions

32-Channel Analog Input Module

Quantum Series 140 ACI 052 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 parameters 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 synchronous

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.