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Lessons on how to use UltimaSerial
Ultimaserial is designed for users who wants to get the most from their Windaq Starter kits! If you are planning to use the high-end products from DATAQ Instruments, such as DI-720/730, please use DataqSDK instead. You may use UltimaWaterfall & FFT1024 without Ultimaserial, such as Windaq add-on.
Features |
Ultimaserial |
DataqSDK |
| Portable.
No need to pre-install drivers when you change COM port
|
You can use the device on
any COM and USB
port without pre-installing the Dataq driver through Windaq installation (The USB driver still needs to be installed once) |
No, Windaq installation is required for distribution |
| Intelligent USB port supports makes your program fully portable | Yes! | No |
| Easy
start for USB-based devices: Specify the serial number of the device, and let Ultimaserial look for the device! |
Yes! | No |
| Autodetect USB-based device | Yes | No |
| Analog Transitional Trigger Mode with pre-defined data length before trigger point and pre-defined data length after trigger point, including non-stop | Trigger on transition on a specified analog channel | No
|
| Event Counters for Low-to-High or High-to-Low Transition | Use digital inputs as presetable event counter | No |
| Digital Transitional Trigger Mode with pre-defined data length before trigger point and pre-defined data length after trigger point, including non-stop | Trigger on transition on a specified digital channel | No |
| Immediate AD Readings | Direct access to AD channels as immediate readings | No |
| Finer sample rate tunning | Here are some acceptable sample rates for DI-194/154: 480, 457, 436, 417, 400, 384, 369, 355, 342, 331, 320, 310, 300, 291, 282, 274, 267, 259, 246, 240, etc. | No |
| Event counter activated trigger mode with pre-defined data length before trigger point and pre-defined data length after trigger point, including non-stop | Use Event counter as trigger condition | No |
| Analog Level Enabled Mode | Analog level triggering | No |
| Digital Level Enabled Mode | Digital level triggering | No |
| LimitLine monitoring | Analog level monitoring | No |
| Catch trigger event | Report trigger event | No |
| Catch limit level | Report level monitoring | No |
| Catch the min/max reading of the duration of the test | Statistic feature | No |
| Digital Inputs | Easy access to digital inputs | Not easy to access |
| UltimaWaterfall | N.A | |
| FFT1024 | N.A |
Source codes to run DI-158:
Private Sub Start_Click()
UltimaSerial.Device = 158
UltimaSerial.CommPort = USB
UltimaSerial.ChannelCount = 1
UltimaSerial.SampleRate = 1000
UltimaSerial.EventLevel = 2
UltimaSerial.Start
End Sub
Private Sub Stop_Click()
UltimaSerial.Stop
End Sub
Private Sub UltimaSerial_NewData(ByVal Count As Integer)
v = UltimaSerial.GetData()
DQChart1.Chart (v)
End Sub
Last update: 10/05/07
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