Daq-Software-Quick-Start

Quick Start Guide

Table of Contents
MCC DAQ Software system requirements .....................................................................4
Universal Library requirements ...............................................................................4
TracerDAQ ..............................................................................................................5
ULx for NILabVIEW .............................................................................................5
Hardware User's Guides ..........................................................................................5
Install the MCC DAQ Software ......................................................................................6
Install the MCC Device...................................................................................................7
Run InstaCal and add the DEMO-BOARD ....................................................................8
Configure and test the DEMO-BOARD with InstaCal ...................................................9
Configure channel 0.................................................................................................9
Testchannel 0 ..........................................................................................................9
Getting started with TracerDAQ .................................................................................. 10
TracerDAQ help ................................................................................................... 10
Getting started with the UniversalLibrary................................................................... 11
Universal Library example programs ................................................................... 11
Universal Library help .......................................................................................... 11
Getting started with ULx for NI LabVIEW ................................................................. 12ULx for NI LabVIEW example programs............................................................ 12
ULx for NI LabVIEW help .................................................................................. 12
Open your hardware user's guides................................................................................ 13
For more information................................................................................................... 13

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MCC DAQ Software system requirements
Please read this booklet completely before you install your Measurement
Computing Corporation (MCC) software or device.
You can install MCC DAQ Software on a computer running one of these
operating systems: Windows 7
 Windows VISTA
 Windows XP SP 2 or later
These operating systems are the only requirements for installing and running
InstaCal. Refer to the readme files in the \ICalUL folder on the MCC DAQ
Software CD for more information.
Only MCC USB, WLS, WEB, and most PCI devices are supported on 64-bit
operating systems. PCI-DAS1000 Series, PCI-DAS1200 Series, and PCIDAS1600 Seriesdevices are not supported on 64-bit operating systems.
ISA, PPIO, PC-CARD/ PCMCIA and E-PDISO16 devices are only
supported on Windows XP.
Before using MCC DAQ Software with a MCC device, we recommend that
you install the latest Windows Updates.

Universal Library requirements
Application development programming library for MCC devices requires
one or more of these development languages:

Microsoft® Windows® languages: Visual Basic and Visual C/C++
 .NET languages: VB .NET, C# .NET (Visual Studio® 2005 and later)

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TracerDAQ
Virtual instrument application suite with strip chart, oscilloscope, function
generator, and rate generator requires the following software:

 Microsoft .NET® Framework 2.0
 DirectX 9.0c
 InstaCal...