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Technical reference 34

3.4.4 Excel

The easiest way to transfer data to Excel is to use the PicoLog software application.

If, however, you need to do something that is not possible using PicoLog, you can write an Excel macro

which calls

usbtc08.dll

to read in a set of data values. The Excel Macro language is similar to

Visual Basic.

The example

USBTC0832.XLS

reads in 20 values of the cold junction temperature and channel 1

temperature, one per second, and assigns them to cells A1..B20.

3.4.5 LabVIEW

While it is possible to access all of the driver routines described earlier, it is easier to use the special

LabVIEW access routine. The

usb_tc08.llb

library in the DRIVERS sub-directory shows how to

access this routine.

To use this routine,

copy usb_tc08.llb

and

usb_tc0832.vi

to your LabVIEW

user.lib

directory. You will then need

usb_tc08

sub-vi, and an example sub-vi which demonstrate how to use

them. You can use one of these sub-vis for each of the channels that you wish to measure. The sub-vi

returns a temperature for thermocouple types.

3.4.6 Visual Basic

The

DRIVERS

directory contains the following files, created in Visual Basic 6:

USBTC0832.VBP

USBTC0832.BAS

USBTC0832.FRM

USBTC0832.VBW

3.4.7 HP-Vee

The example program

usb_tc08.vee

shows how to collect a block of data from the

usb_tc08

There are prototypes in

USB_TC08.vh