Software Support CD-ROM Release Notes

1. What's new

2. Installation

3. Un-installation

4. Data Acquisition Hardware Support for Windows 95/98/ME

5. Data Acquisition Hardware Support for Windows NT

6. Data Acquisition Hardware Support for Windows 2000

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1. What's new

What's new in V1.4c

• Added PCI-1761 DLL driver for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP/2000

• Update the hardware manual of PCI-1240

What's new in V1.4b

• Added PCI-1721 DLL driver for Windows 9x/ME/NT

• Added Auto-calibration utility and Waveform Editor utility for PCI-1721

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\PCI-1721

• Modify the path of PCI-1712 and PCI-1716 Auto-calibration utility

  The directory of PCI-1712 is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\PCI-1712

  The directory of PCI-1716 is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\PCI-1716

• Added the Windows CE driver for PCM series DA&C module (PCM-3718 / 3718H / 3718HG / 3724 / 3725 / 3730)

What's new in V1.4a

• Added PCI-1716/1762 DLL driver for Windows 9x/NT

• Added Auto-calibration utility (for both PCI-1712 and PCI-1716)

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\AutoCalibration

What's new in V1.4

• Final Windows 2000 DLL driver V1.4 for DA&C cards

• Final Windows NT DLL driver V1.4 for DA&C cards

• Final Windows 98/95 DLL driver V1.4 for DA&C cards

• Updated Acrobat Reader to V4.05 installation program for reading driver manual, Manual.pdf.

• Added PC-LabCard Software User's Manual, DOS_Manu.pdf (for PCL-1800 / 711B / 718 / 812 / 812PG / 814B / 816 / 818 / 818L / 818H / 818HG only)

What's new in V1.3c

• Added Windows 2000 DLL driver V1.4 beta for DA&C cards

• Added Windows NT DLL driver V1.4 beta for DA&C cards

• Added Windows 98/95 DLL driver V1.4 beta for DA&C cards

• Added PCI-1240 Windows 9x/NT DLL Driver and Motion Utility

• Added PCI-1751 32-bit cascade counter function

• Fixed blue screen issue of ISA-bus cards in Windows NT

What's new in V1.3b

• Added PCI-1712 driver for Windows 95/98/NT

• Added PCI-1712 auto-calibration program for Windows 95/98/NT

What's new in V1.3a

• Added PCM-3725 driver for Windows 95/98/NT

What's new in V1.3

• Added PCI-1752, PCI-1754 and PCI-1756 drivers for Windows 95/98/NT

• Added PCL-839 driver for Windows 95/98/NT

• Replaced VisiDAQ standard edition software with 32-bit GeniDAQ evaluation edition software

What's new in V1.20

• Added PCL-1800 driver for Windows 95/98

• Added PCL-816 driver for Windows 95/98

• Added Windows-based Test Utility for Windows 95/98/NT

• Added seventeen Win32 Console examples for entry-level users

• Enhanced driver manual (manual.pdf), including new Table of Content, function overview and tutorial; remove manual.doc

• Included driver on-line help, manual.hlp

• Included Acrobat Reader V3.01 installation program for reading driver manual, manual.pdf.

• Enhanced Device Installation Utility for launching Test Utility

• Added Direct I/O examples for PCI-bus DA&C Cards in DOS environment

What's new in V1.12

• Change PCI card driver installation

The installation of PCI-bus card driver is the same as that of the ISA card driver.

• Updated the adsio.dll driver of Windows NT for reboot issue

What's new in V1.11a

• Updated PC-Sentry Utility (V1.03)

• Added PCM-3718H/3718HG Driver for Windows NT & Windows 95

• Added PCI-1753 Driver for Windows NT & Windows 95

What's new in V1.11

• DLL Driver Updated, including:

            - Windows 95:  adsio.dll, ads711.dll, ads726.dll, ads812.dll, ads818.dll, ads4000.dll, ads5000.dll, ads1710.dll, adspcms.dll

            - Windows NT:  adsio.dll, ads711.dll, ads812.dll, ads818.dll, ads1800.dll, ads816.dll, ads4000.dll, ads5000.dll, ads1710.dll, adspcms.dll

• Update VisiDAQ Standard Edition Software (V3.11)

Freely software bundled with the hardware

• Updated ADAM Configuration Utility (V1.11)

• Updated PC-Sentry Utility (V1.02)

• Updated PCL-752 Driver

Changes default base address to 300H, and default interrupt function to disabled setting

• Added SYM53C895 SCSI drivers

What's new in V1.10a

• Added PCI-1713 drivers for Windows 95 and Windows NT

• The ADAM utility in this version supports all Advantech ADAM-4000 modules (firmware independent).

• VisiDAQ Version upgraded to V3.11

Save and restore previous values: This function is used to save the values of control displays at system stop. These values will then be restored at the next system start. This function is included in Binary Button Control, Conditional Button Control, Numeric Control, Knob Control, Slider Control and Log File Block.

• Supports PCM-3718H and PCM-3718HG

What's new in V1.10

• Added VisiDAQ Standard Edition:

Advantech VisiDAQ is a Windows-based graphical application builder for data acquisition system.

- Features and Benefits

(1) Easy-to-use programming tools for visualizing your data acquisition system in four easy steps

(2) Bundled Advantech I/O drivers

(3) Excel-like report generation

(4) VBA compatible scripting language

           - Applications

(1) Data acquisition

(2) Laboratory automation

(3) Utility monitoring

(4) Human-machine interface

• More help files and example files

- Help file, Visual C and Visual Basic examples for PCL-752 driver.

- Visual Basic and Delphi examples for PCI-1760 driver.

• Added Adam utility program for Adam4000 and Adam5000

- The directory is located in CD-ROM\Utility\Adam45k.

• Added ICOM utility program

- The directory is located in CD-ROM\Utility\ICom

• Added PCL-752 drivers for Windows 95 and Windows NT

- PCL-752 drivers for Windows 95 and Windows NT.

- PCL-752 application program (located in CD-ROM\Utility\PCSentry)

• Updated AIDMA and MAIDMA examples

• Updated Ads818s.vxd driver for stopping several times

• Added PCI-1720 & PCI-1760 drivers for Windows 95 and Windows NT

- PCI-1720 driver for Windows 95 & Windows NT.

- PCI-1760 driver for Windows 95 & Windows NT.

- Synchronization AO example for PCI-1720 driver in both Visual C, Visual Basic and Delphi.

- Digin Extension and PWM examples for PCI-1760 in Visual C.

What's new in V1.03

• Added PCI-1710/HG drivers & utility for Windows 95 and Windows NT

- PCI-1710/HG driver for Windows 95 & Windows NT

- PCI-1710/HG Calibration Utility

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\PCI1710.

• Added Change single-channel FIFO with interrupt AI examples

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\examples\VC\Aiintf.

• Added Change multi-channel FIFO with interrupt AI examples

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\examples\VC\Maiintf.

• Added DOS utility and Turbo C/C++, MFC6.0 library for PCL-841 CAN card

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\PCL-841.

• Added Windows 3.1, Windows 95 drivers and utility for PCL-841 CAN card (CANopen edition).

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\CANopen.

• Added monitor program utility for ADAM-4525.

The directory is located in C:\Program Files\Advantech\Adsapi\Utility\ADAM4525.

• Added MIC-3000 Fast Ethernet Driver for MIC3660 Ethernet card

• Updated FDigin example

Update FDigin example program for Button enabled/disabled several times protection

• Updated adsio.vxd Driver

What's new in V1.02

• Updated PCI-1751 for Windows 95 driver

  Update PCI-1751 for Windows 95 driver for Interrupt function

• Added Drivers for Compact PCI CPU card

• Added the following MIC-3000 drivers:

- MIC-3000\Sis5598: Sis5598 IDE and VGA drivers for MIC-3355 and MIC-3350.

- MIC-3000\RTL8139A: Ethernet driver for MIC-3375 and MIC-3378.

• Updated PCI-1750 for Windows 95 driver

Update PCI-1750 for Windows 95 driver for Interrupt function.

• Added PCL-841 for Windows 95 driver

What's new in V1.01

• Updated Windows 95 DLL driver files

adsio.ini, adsdio.dll, ads5000.dll, ads711s.vxd, ads812s.vxd, ads818s.vxd, ads711.dll, ads812.dll, ads818.dll, ads841.dll, MAIINT, MAIDMA, DNet.h, DNet.pas, DNet.bas, DNet Examples, adsio.inf, adsmic.dll

• Updated Windows NT DLL driver files

adsio.ini, adsdio.dll, ads5000.dll, ads711s.vxd, ads812s.vxd, ads818s.vxd, ads711.dll, ads812.dll, ads818.dll, ads841.dll, MAIINT, MAIDMA, DNet.h, DNet.pas, DNet.bas, DNet Examples, adsio.inf

• Added PCI-1750 and MIC-2000 drivers for Windows 95

PCI-1750 driver, TmCntSet Examples, MIC2000 driver

• Added PCI-1750 driver for Windows NT

Pci-1750 driver, TmCntSet Examples

• Added ADAM5000/CAN DeviceNet drivers for Windows 95 and NT:

- Updated the following DLL driver files:

Adsdn5k.dll, Adsdnet.dll, Ads841.dll, Ads841s.vxd (for Windows 95 only)

- Updated the following APIs for ADAM5000/DeviceNet(See adsdnet.hlp for detailed  information):

DNOpen, DNDeviceGetParamOfReg. DNAllocateGrpMsg, DNFreeGrpMsg

- Added the following new APIs for ADAM5000/DeviceNet (See adsdnet.hlp for detailed information):

DNEnableEvent (See MFCDigin, MFCAlarm examples for detail), DNCheckEvent

- Supports the following API only for Windows NT platform:

DNSetEventEnabled

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2. Installation

• Installing Windows 95 or Windows NT or Windows 2000 DLL driver

- Step 1: Insert the CD-ROM disc into the CD-ROM drive.

- Step 2: The installation program will launch automatically. If it doesn't start, you can execute the Setup.exe program manually under d:\win95\disk1 or d:\winnt\disk1 or d:\win2000\disk1 directory where d is the CD-ROM drive. Then choose the DLL item.

- Step 3: Follow the on-line description to easily install the drivers.

- Step 4: Install hardware

Note: When install PCI cards driver in Windows 95, if you install hardware before installing the driver, please ignore the warning message generated by Windows 95. Then install the driver.

• Installing GeniDAQ Development Edition Software (free for 2 hours while without hardware key) for Windows 95/98 and Windows 3.1

- Step1: Insert the CD-ROM disc into CD-ROM drive.

- Step 2: The installation program will be launched automatically. If it is not started, you can execute the Setup.exe program manually under d:\GeniDAQ\disk1 directory where d is the CD-ROM drive. Then choose the GeniDAQ Software item.

- Step 3: Follow the on-line description, you can install them with ease.

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3. Un-installation

• Uninstalling Windows 95 or Windows NT or Windows 2000 DLL driver

- Step 1: Select Add/Remove Programs icon in Control Panel.

- Step 2: Select specified DLL Driver and press “Remove” button. You will be prompted the following

dialog box Are you sure you want to completely remove Advantech Driver for Windows 95/NT/2000 and all of its components?

- Step 3: Select OK button, then remove completely.

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4. Data Acquisition Hardware Support for Windows 95/98/ME

Advantech periodically upgrades drivers to add support for new hardware. To make sure this version of driver supports the hardware you use, refer to the following supported hardware listing information.

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5. Data Acquisition Hardware Support for Windows NT

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6. Data Acquisition Hardware Support for Windows 2000

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