DAP Measurement Studio

DAPstudio: Onboard intelligence at your command

DAP Measurement Studio (DAPstudio) comes from an engineering commitment to develop products that give you each design tool you need, precisely when you need it, to create elegant and powerful data acquisition systems quickly and well. If you develop, or intend to develop, data acquisition and control systems with a real-time component or with a high channel count, then check out DAPstudio.

DAPstudio, a PC application, provides user interface features without requiring any Windows programming. DAPstudio lets you develop applications quickly and easily, using the full DAPL command set. In most cases you really need no other software to develop and run any application.

DAPstudio can be used in addition to DAPview for Windows, based on what you want to achieve. DAPview for Windows controls the DAP board by sending it DAPL commands that you explicitly specify. DAPstudio also controls the DAP by sending it DAPL commands. With DAPstudio, however, you implicitly specify predefined sets of commands simply by navigating a graphical interface. The actual DAPL commands can remain out of sight.

The DAPstudio Manual provides a ready set of sample applications. Pick a sample application that comes close to what you want to do and use it as a springboard to get down to work right away with DAPstudio. Try out the auto-increment feature. In the DAPstudio manual, the example can be found at "App0406 Duplicate Commands With Auto-Increment Parameters."

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DAPstudio: Onboard intelligence at your command

Input/output configurations

Graphically configure input and output hardware.
- Select and number sub-ranges of channels for rapid channel configuration.
- Generate basic waveforms (sine, cosine, square, triangle, sawtooth) directly from menus.
- Generate any waveform from custom processing.
- Configure all clocking and triggering options with live DAPL listing changes.

Processing

Use DAPstudio to design advanced applications using onboard processing.
Live in-place help on commands as you type them.
- Alphabetized and categorized lists of commands available for your application.
- Online detailed reference when you need it.
Automatic declaration of all DAPL symbols: pipes, variables, constants, triggers...
Full DAPL manual help for every command on F1.
Interactively design filters that run on your DAP board.
Advanced paste/increment/copy command for rapidly generating DAPL processing for large numbers of channels. Try out the auto-increment feature.

Display

Show your data in any number of graphs and tables.
- Copy/paste data from table displays into Excel directly.
Crosshairs for obtaining exact readings in a graph.
Zoom to multiple levels.

Disk logging

Log data to disk at high speed in binary format.
Log data in text format for easy import to Excel or other programs.
Directly control remote disk logging on server PC using DAPcell.

Save and load full application configurations containing all of the above.

DAPstudio: Onboard intelligence at your command

Take a look at this animated introduction (262kB file) that walks you through using the auto-increment feature.

One thing that we suggest you try out is the auto-increment feature. In the DAPstudio manual, the example can be found at "App0406 Duplicate Commands With Auto-Increment Parameters."

If you have a large number of channels, this feature is particularly useful. It allows you to copy and paste commands for multiple channels without manually changing the number in each command line. For example, enter a command line in the DAPstudio Processing|Procedures|DAPL Listing edit box.

Average(IP0, cCnt0_, pAvg0)

You then can use a simple Ctrl-C (copy) and Ctrl-E (increment/paste/copy) keystroke sequence to add additional Average command lines. They will look like this.

Average(IP1, cCnt0_, pAvg1)

Average(IP2, cCnt0_, pAvg2)

Average(IP3, cCnt0_, pAvg3)

Average(IP4, cCnt0_, pAvg4)

Use this shortcut as many times as you need to. Increment/paste/copy does not just duplicate your lines of code with new numbers, it also duplicates all required structure declarations to support that code. So, after using Ctrl-C/Ctrl-E, you can type start and run your application without any more work.

DAPstudio: Onboard intelligence at your command

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You can try DAP Measurement Studio (DAPstudio) without a DAP board installed. When you want to use the software with a DAP, note that DAPstudio 2.0 supports all PCI DAP boards, including iDSC 1816, when they are installed under Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/9x operating systems with Accel32 or the DAPcell server. Because DAPcell and DAPL 2000 hide most differences between PCI DAP boards and ISA DAP boards, DAPstudio will work with some old ISA DAP boards.