Owner's manual

Chapter 1: Introduction
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• ESSI Two
2
high-speed serial interfaces
• Counter Timers Three 24-bit (33MHz Internal/16.5
MHz External)
Getting Started
To get your PowerDAQ DIO board up and running, ensure that you have
the following:
• A computer with PCI (PD2-DIO or PDL-DIO) or cPCI/PXI
(PDXI-DIO) slots and the BIOS compliant to PCI
Specifications 2.1 or greater. S
ee Appendix D: Common
Questions and Support.
• PowerDAQ DIO board with user manual.
• PowerDAQ DIO Software for Windows 9x/Me
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/2000/XP or
other target OS supported. Software is supplied on the CD
shipped with the PowerDAQ DIO board. SDK version is
indicated on the CD. Latest software is always available to
download from the OMEGA ENGINEERING web-site:
www.Omega Engineeringdaq.com
. Please refer to readme
file on the installation CD for the details about new features
of the SDK version you have.
• The PowerDAQ PD2-DIO or PDL-DIO PCI bus interface must
be mechanically keyed as 32/64 bit, 5V power and signaling.
• Minimum recommended RAM size is and 32MB for
Windows 95/98/NT and 64MB for Windows Me/2000/XP
Note For the non-Windows OS installation procedures please
refer to readme file, which is distributed with related
installation package.
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ESSI is accessible via DSP register map. ESSI also supports high-speed streaming on TX0/RX0
transmitter/receiver
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PowerDAQ SDK version 3.0 and greater will discontinue support of Windows 95/98/Me