Sensoray Smart A/D - Manual (Page 3)

S ENSORAY I NSTRUCTION M ANUAL S MART A/D D RIVER FOR W INDOWS
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1. Introduction
1.1 Scope
This document describes the installation and use of the Sensoray Windows 95/98/NT driver for Smart A/D™ boards.
1.2 Description
The Smart A/D™ driver is a set of executable software modules that will interface one or more Sensoray Smart A/D™ boards to
a Windows application program of your design. Application programs may be developed in any popular Windows development
environment, including Visual C++, Visual Basic, Delphi, etc.
Up to sixteen Sensoray Smart A/D™ boards may be concurrently supported by the driver. The driver simultaneously supports
any combination of 8-, 16- and 32-channel Smart A/D™ boards, as well as any combination of Network or Resident
(non-network) Smart A/D™ product families.
1.3 Block Diagram
The Smart A/D™ driver consists of several software components that serve as an interface between the application program and
the operating system. The following diagram illustrates the relationship between the various software components.
Application
SMARTAD.DLL
WINDRVR.*
NETWORK
OPERATING SYSTEM
HARDWARE
ACCESS
WSOCK32.DLL
NETWORK
DRIVER
RESIDENT
HARDWARE
ACCESS
KERNEL-MODE
DRIVER