Data Acquisition (DAQ) and Control from Microstar Laboratories

What's New with Version 3.41

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See below for changes in version 3.40.

(or see changes in earlier version 3.20)


New features for all DAPtools CDs 3.41

  • DAPL 2000 (2.06 to 2.08)
    • Improves data transfer efficiency for the DAP 5400a/627 to allow more processing at the highest sampling rate
    • README.TXT located in \DAP\DAPL2000\README.TXT
    • Documentation for new commands and syntax for the DAP 5400a located in \EXTRA\DAPLDOC\DAPL206.PDF
  • DAPlog Plus for Windows (2.20 to 3.00)
    • Supports multiple DAPs through 'Board Setup Display' menu
    • While running, if the scroll bar is placed past available new data, the graph automatically scrolls when new data arrives
    • Copies to clipboard from the table window; the delimiters between columns are tab characters
    • Maximum history increased from 10,000 to 20,000 for table and graph
    • Supports right click on a DAP other than the selected DAP
    • Supports server disk logging for each DAP
    • Assigns a unique filename for server disk logging
    • Copy/paste one DAP to another copies the path for the server disk logging filename, but retains the unique filename on each DAP
    • Copy/paste one DAP to another uses shortcut keys Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V

New features for DAPtools Basic 3.41

  • Accel32 Server (4.14 to 4.15)
    • The execution priority is lowered from "highest" to "normal"

New features for DAPtools Standard 3.41

  • DAPcell Local (4.14 to 4.15)
    • The execution priority is lowered from "highest" to "normal"

New features for DAPtools Professional 3.41

  • DAPcell Server and Client (4.14 to 4.15)
    • The execution priority is lowered from "highest" to "normal"
  • DAPcell Local (4.14 to 4.15)
    • The execution priority is lowered from "highest" to "normal"

New features for all DAPtools CDs 3.40

  • DAPL 2000 (2.04 to 2.06)
    • Support for DAP 5400a/627 - adds 2M s/s per channel with new four channel mode
    • README.TXT located in \DAP\DAPL2000\README.TXT
    • Documentation for new commands and syntax for the DAP 5400a located in \EXTRA\DAPLDOC\DAPL206.PDF
  • DAPlog Plus for Windows (2.10 to 2.20)
    • Supports new syntax for the DAP 5400a
    • Uses a 'Dap Select' dialog to select the DAP address
    • Has a 'DAP Update' menu feature to update the DAP model, minimum input time, and input pipe grouping
  • iDSC Software (5.01 to 5.10)
    • New features for DSCview
      • While running, if the scroll bar is placed past available new data, the graph automatically scrolls when new data arrives
      • Copies to clipboard from the table window; the delimiters between columns are tab characters
      • Maximum history increased from 10,000 to 20,000 for table and graph
      • Assigns a unique filename for server disk logging
      • Copy/paste one iDSC to another copies the path for the server disk logging filename, but retains the unique filename on each iDSC
      • Copy/paste one iDSC to another uses shortcut keys Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V
      • Supports right click on an iDSC other than the selected iDSC
      • Setting the mode to master changes all independent iDSCs to its slaves; if no independent iDSCs exist, setting the mode to master is ignored
    • Updated LabVIEW support
    • Updated MATLAB support
  • DAPview for Windows (1.12 to 1.13)
    • Updated to handle larger communication pipes
  • DAPcal (1.01 to 1.02)
    • Supports calibrating the DAP 5400a
  • Linux support
    • Accel32 Server for Linux (1.00 to 1.01)
      • Resolves some incompatibility issues between the older drivers and the newer kernels
    • ACCEL PCI Driver for Linux (1.04 to 1.05)
      • Resolves some incompatibility issues between the older drivers and the newer kernels
  • DOS DAPLINIT
    • Supports DAPL 2000 2.04 and below
    • Located in the \DOS\DAPLINIT directory
  • New/updated documentation in help and PDF format

Changes for DAPtools Basic 3.40

  • Accel32 Server (4.13 to 4.14)
    • The size of $BinOut is increased to 128K for all PCI DAPs

Changes for DAPtools Standard 3.40

  • DAPcell Local (4.13 to 4.14)
    • The size of $BinOut is increased to 128K for all PCI DAPs
  • DAPtools for LabVIEW (2.02 to 2.10)
    • Added a wrapper DLL, Mslapp.dll, to support DAPIO32 functions that use structures
    • Added support for the DAPIO32 functions: DapBufferGetEx, DapBufferPutEx, DapCommandDownload, DapComPipeCreate, DapComPipeDelete, DapHandleQuery, DapHandleQueryInt32, DapHandleQueryInt64, DapLineGet, DapModuleInstall, DapModuleLoad, DapModuleUninstall, DapOutputEmpty, DapPipeDiskFeed, DapPipeDiskLog, DapReinitialize, DapReset
    • Added five new examples: High-speed transfer to and from the DAP (App10), DAPcell Server disklogging (App11), Install custom command module (App12), Load custom command module (App13), Two-DAP configuration (App14)
  • DAPtools for MATLAB (4.00 to 4.01)
    • Provided a setup program to simplify installation process

Changes for DAPtools Professional 3.40

  • DAPcell Server and Client (4.13 to 4.14)
    • The size of $BinOut is increased to 128K for all PCI DAPs
  • DAPcell Local (4.13 to 4.14)
    • The size of $BinOut is increased to 128K for all PCI DAPs
  • DAPtools for LabVIEW ( to 2.10)
    • Added a wrapper DLL, Mslapp.dll, to support DAPIO32 functions that use structures
    • Added support for the DAPIO32 functions: DapBufferGetEx, DapBufferPutEx, DapCommandDownload, DapComPipeCreate, DapComPipeDelete, DapHandleQuery, DapHandleQueryInt32, DapHandleQueryInt64, DapLineGet, DapModuleInstall, DapModuleLoad, DapModuleUninstall, DapOutputEmpty, DapPipeDiskFeed, DapPipeDiskLog, DapReinitialize, DapReset
    • Added five new examples: High-speed transfer to and from the DAP (App10), DAPcell Server disklogging (App11), Install custom command module (App12), Load custom command module (App13), Two-DAP configuration (App14)
  • DAPtools for MATLAB (4.00 to 4.01)
    • Provided a setup program to simplify installation process

 

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