User`s guide

2.3.2 Tutorial 2: Get Digital Input Data from PCL-818
The purpose of this tutorial is to teach you how to build a LabVIEW application to retrieve digital
input values from Advantech PCL-818L data acquisition and control cards through an Advantech
32-bit LabVIEW driver.
1. Click “New VI” button to create a new LabVIEW program
2. Switch to Block Diagram. Add the “DeviceOpen” and the “DeviceClose” VIs from Advanced
VIs and the “DeviceManager” group. Add the “DIOReadPortByte” VI from Advanced VIs
and “adDIO” group.
3. Switch to the Front Panel. Add a Round LED from Boolean group and add an Array from the
Array & Cluster group.