Measurement Computing ADAC/5500 Series - Manual (Page 34)

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5. ADAC/5500 SERIES PCI CARD OPERATION
5.1 DEVICE DRIVERS
The simplest method of operating the card is by using a program package such as LabVIEW
™. This package can be
incorporated to do a wide range of display, data logging and control functions. For those who prefer to write their own
programs, the ADAC/5500 cards include the ADAC ADLIB WDM Series of driver packages. These packages provide
easy to use software function calls that can be used to perform most available board functions
5.1.1 LabVIEW
™
The ADAC/5500 cards are fully supported by the ADAC-LVi data acquisition VIs for LabVIEW
™. Please refer to the
ADAC-LVi manual (p/n 1107-0901) for details on using ADAC cards with LabVIEW
™. The ADAC-LVi software and
user manuals are included on the ADAC CD that ships with the ADAC/5500 boards. Follow the instructions on the CD
for proper installation.
5.1.2 TestPoint
™
The ADAC/5500 cards are fully supported by the TestPoint software. Please refer to the TP Help manual for details on
using ADAC cards with TestPoint. The TestPoint driver software and user help manual are included on the ADAC CD
that ships with the ADAC/5500 boards. Follow the instructions on the CD for proper installation. Note that the ADAC
driver software is also included with new releases of the TestPoint software. The TP ADAC-32 User’s Manual is p/n
1107-0903.
5.1.3 Windows Drivers (ADLIB WDM)
ADLIB WDM is a set of sophisticated, high level, dynamically linked library (DLL) data acquisition subroutines for
programmers involved in the developing of process and/or data acquisition applications. ADLIB WDM is both a
Microsoft C interface library (C, Visual C++) and a Visual Basic interface library for Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
The functions supplied with ADLIB WDM provide an easy to use interface to the line of PC data acquisition products,
shielding the programmer from the complexity of low level DAQ board programming and complicated DMA and
interrupt handling mechanisms of the PC and the Windows environment. Based on Microsoft’s Windows Driver
Model, ADLIB WDM supports DMA, Interrupt and Software Polled data transfer methods for acquiring data. ADLIB
WWDM has full support for analog high level (10 V) and analog low level (mV) inputs.
The ADLIB WDM software and user manuals are included on the ADAC CD that ships with the ADAC/5500 boards.
Follow the instructions on the CD for proper installation.