Chapter 3
Programming and Developing Applications
After following the installation instructions in Chapter 2, your board should now be installed and ready for use. Although the board is part of the larger DAS family, in general there may be no correspondence among registers for different boards. Software written at the register level for other DAS models will not function correctly with your board.
Programming Languages
Measurement Computing’s Universal Library™ provides access to board functions from a variety of Windows programming languages. If you are planning to write programs, or would like to run the example programs for Visual Basic or any other language, please refer to the Universal Library User's Guide (available on our web site at
Packaged Applications Programs
Many packaged application programs, such as SoftWIRE and
Some application drivers are included with the Universal Library package, but not with the application package. If you have purchased an application package directly from the software vendor, you may need to purchase our Universal Library and drivers. Please contact us by phone, fax or
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!Email: techsupport@mccdaq.com
Register Level Programming
You should use the Universal Library or one of the packaged application programs mentioned above to control your board. Only experienced programmers should try