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Acquire, display, and write data – Measurement Computing DASYLab Getting Started User Manual

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Exercise: Acquiring, displaying, and writing analog data

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Acquire, display, and write data

After setting up the data acquisition operation, run the worksheet to

acquire analog input data from an MCC DAQ device, display the data on a

chart, and write the data to a file. To run the worksheet, complete the

following steps:

1.

Click

Start

( ) on the DASYLab Function bar.

2.

Click on the

Restore Up

icon on the Y/t Chart’s title bar to expand the

window.

The analog signal acquired from your MCC DAQ device is plotted and

displayed on the

Y/t Chart00

window.

DEMO-BOARD and USB-16608FS-Plus examples are shown next.

Signal generated by the

DEMO-BOARD with a scan

rate of 100.

Signal generated by a

USB-1608FS-Plus with a scan

rate of 10,000.

3.

Click

Stop

( ) on the DASYLab Function bar to stop the program.

4.

Open the

DEFNAME.csv

file on the Desktop using Excel.