ADLINK Technology 6216-GL Series User manual

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Manual Revision: 4.03

Revision Date: July 8, 2009

Part Number: 50-11234-2020

6208/6216-GL Series

Multi-channel Analog Output Cards

User’s Manual

6208/6216-GL Series

User’s Manual

Revision History

Revision Release Date Description of Change(s)

1.00 N/A Document created 

(Legacy documentation revised/converted to

new system)

3.22 2003/05/07

Document created (legacy documentation

revised/converted to new system)

Specification Revision

Initial Release

4.00 2007/12/27

Major revision of document flow and placement

of content. 

Renaming of PCI-6208V & PCI-6216V to PCI-

6208V-GL & PCI-6216V-GL respectively

Re-release

4.01 2008/4/8 Updated for CompactPCI versions

4.02 2008/5/28 Updated board diagrams

4.03 2009/7/8 Added PCI Express boards

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Preface

This document contains proprietary information protected by copy-

right. All rights are reserved. No part of this manual may be repro-

duced by any mechanical, electronic, or other means in any form

without prior written permission of the manufacturer.

Disclaimer

The information in this document is subject to change without prior

notice in order to improve reliability, design, and function and does

not represent a commitment on the part of the manufacturer.

In no event will the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect,

special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the

use or inability to use the product or documentation, even if

advised of the possibility of such damages.

Trademarks

Borland® C/C++ and Delphi® are registered trademarks of the

Borland Software Corporation. Intel® is a registered trademark of

Intel Corporation. LabVIEW™ is a trademark of National

Instruments Corporation. Linux® and the Linux® Logo are

registered trademarks of Linus Torvalds. MATLAB® and the

MATLAB Logo are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc.

Microsoft®, MS-DOS®, Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows

NT®, Windows® 2000, Windows® 2003 Server®, Windows® XP,

Windows Vista®, ActiveX®, Visual Studio®, Visual Basic®, Visual

C#®, and Visual C++® are registered trademarks of Microsoft

Corporation. PCI™, CompactPCI®, and PCI Express®, are

registered trademarks of the Peripheral Component Interconnect

Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG). PXI™ is a trademark of the PXI

systems Alliance. VEE™ is a trademark of Agilent.

Product names mentioned herein are used for identification

purposes only and may be trademarks and/or registered

trademarks of their respective companies.

6208/6216-GL Series

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Using this Manual

Audience and Scope

The PCI-6208/6216-GL Series User’s Manual is intended for

hardware technicians and systems operators with knowledge of

installing, configuring and operating PCI analog output cards.

Manual Organization

This manual is organized as follows:

Preface: presents important copyright notifications,

disclaimers, trademarks, and associated information on the

proper understanding and usage of this document and its

associated product(s).

Chapter 1, Introduction: gives an overview of 6208/6216-GL

Series features, applications, specifications and supporting

software environments for use with the product. The layout of

the 6208/6216-GL Series as well as its connectors and

termination boards are presented.

Chapter 2, Getting Started: describes how to install and

configure the 6208/6216-GL Series.

Chapter 3, Supporting Software & Libraries: presents DOS

and Windows 95 software libraries for programming 6208/

6216-GL Series cards. This information is especially useful for

programmers using high-level programming languages.

Chapter 4, Hardware Registers: provides detailed descriptions of the

6208/6216-GL Series registers, I/O address map and Voltage Output

conversion information. This information is especially useful for

programmers who want to control the hardware with low-level

programming.

Chapter 5, Utilities & Calibration: describes how to run the

6208/6216-GL Series utility program included in the software

CD. Also describes how to calibrate 6208/6216-GL Series

cards for accurate measurements and operations.

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User’s Manual

Important Safety Instructions: Presents safety instructions

all users must follow for the proper setup, installation and

usage of equipment and/or software.

Warranty Information: Presents important warranty

information for users/manufacturers rights and responsibilities

regarding ADLINK products and services.

Conventions

Take note of the following conventions used throughout this

manual to make sure that users perform certain tasks and

instructions properly.

NOTE:

Additional information, aids, and tips that help users per-

form tasks.

CAUTION:

Information to prevent minor physical injury, component

damage, data loss, and/or program corruption when try-

ing to complete a task.

WARNING:

Information to prevent serious physical injury, compo-

nent damage, data loss, and/or program corruption

when trying to complete a specific task.

6208/6216-GL Series

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Acronyms & Terminology

The following terms are used throughout this document. This list is

prepared in alphabetical order for clarity.

µsec./µs - microsecond

A/mA - (Ampere/amp/milliampere) a unit of electric current, or

amount of electric charge per second

ADE - Application Development Environment

API - Application Programming Interface

ATE - Automatic Test Equipment

BIOS - Basic Input/Output System

bit - Binary digit, the basic unit of information storage in computing

CD/CD-ROM - Compact Disk/Compact Disk Read Only Memory

ch/CH/Chn - Channel

DA - Digital-to-Analog Conversion

DAQ - Data Acquisition

DC - Continuous Current

DI - Digital Input

DLL (.dll) - Dynamic-link libraries, a library subroutine file type and

common filename extension in Microsoft Windows.

DMA - Direct Memory Access

DMM - digital-multi-meters, an electronic measuring instrument

that combines several functions in one unit

DO - Digital Output

driver - A software component used to interact with hardware

devices

EXE (.exe) - A filename extension for executable files/programs

FAE - Field Application Engineer

HMI - Human-Machine Interface

I/O(IO) - Input / Output

IC - integrated circuit, a miniaturized electronic circuit

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IRQ/SERIRQ - Interrupt Request / Serial Interrupt Request

LabVIEW™ - Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering

Workbench, a visual programming language for platforms and

development environments

LCR - Local Configuration Registers

LSB - Least Significant Byte

MATLAB® - Matrix Laboratory, a numerical computing environ-

ment and programming language

MHz - Megahertz (one million hertz)

mm - millimeter

OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

OS - Operating System

PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect

PCI Express (PCIe or PCI-E) - An I/O interconnect bus standard

that expands on and doubles the data transfer rates of original PCI

PCR - PCI Configuration Registers

PnP - Plug and Play

PXI - PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation, a modular instrumenta-

tion platforms

SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition

TTL - Transistor-Transistor Logic, digital circuits built from bipolar

junction transistors and resistors.

V- Volt, a derived unit of electrical potential difference

VDC - Volts of Continuous Current

VEE™ - Visual Engineering Environment, a visual and dataflow

programming language and development environment

X86 - A generic term that refers to the CISC (complex instruction

set computer) architecture, the most commercially successful cen-

tral processing unit (CPU) architecture in modern computing.

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Reference Documentation

The following list of documents may be used as reference materi-

als to support installation, configuration and/or the operation of

ADLINK PCI-6208/6216-GL Series Multi-channel Analog Output

Cards. This list is prepared in alphabetical order (by vendor name,

then by document title) for clarity.

Vendor(s) Title Rev.

ADLINK Technology, Inc. ADLINK DAQ Software Installation

User’s Manual 2.00

ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQBench ActiveX Controls for

Measurement and SCADA/HMI Vista

support 2.43

ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQBench Simplified Chinese:

ActiveX®Controls for Measurement

and SCADA/HMI 2.42

ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQBench Traditional Chinese:

ActiveX®Controls for Measurement

and SCADA/HMI 2.42

ADLINK Technology, Inc.

DAQ-LVIEW PnP: LabVIEW™

Interface for all ADLINK PCI™/PCI

Express®/cPCI Series Data Acquisition

Cards

1.29

ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQ-MTLB: MATLAB®Data

Acquisition Toolbox Adapter for

ADLINK DAQ Cards 1.10

ADLINK Technology, Inc. PCI-OCX: ActiveX®Controls for

ADLINK PCI™/PCI Express®/cPCI

Series Data Acquisition Cards 4.22

ADLINK Technology, Inc. PCIS-DASK: Data Acquisition Software

Development Kit for NuDAQ PCI™ bus

cards 2.00

ADLINK Technology, Inc. PCIS-VEE: VEE™ Interface for

ADLINK PCI™/cPCI Series Data

Acquisition Cards 3.21

PCI-SIG Conventional PCI 3.0

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Getting Service

ADLINK Technology Inc.

Address: 9F, No.166 Jian Yi Road, Chungho City,

Taipei County 235, Taiwan

؀קᗼխࡉؑ৬ԫሁ 166 ᇆ9ᑔ

Tel: +886-2-8226-5877

Fax: +886-2-8226-5717

Email: [email protected]

Ampro ADLINK Technology Inc.

Address: 5215 Hellyer Avenue, #110, San Jose, CA 95138, USA

Tel: +1-408-360-0200

Toll Free: +1-800-966-5200 (USA only)

Fax: +1-408-360-0222

Email: [email protected]

ADLINK Technology Beijing

Address: ࣫ҀᏖ⍋⎔Ϟഄϰ䏃 1োⲜ߯ࡼ࡯໻ Eᑻ801 ᅸ

(100085)

Rm. 801, Power Creative E, No. 1, B/D

Shang Di East Rd., Beijing 100085, China

Tel: +86-10-5885-8666

Fax: +86-10-5885-8625

Email: [email protected]

ADLINK Technology Shanghai

Address: Ϟ⍋Ꮦⓩ⊇⋒催⾥ᡔᓔথ䩺∳䏃 333 ো39 ᐶ4ሖ

(200233)

Tel: +86-21-6495-5210

Fax: +86-21-5450-0414

Email: [email protected]

ADLINK Technology Shenzhen

Address: ⏅ഇᏖቅ⾥ᡔು催ᮄϗ䘧᭄ᄫᡔᴃು

A1 󰶀2ὐC(518057)

2F, C Block, Bld. A1, Cyber-Tech Zone,

Gao Xin Ave. Sec 7, High-Tech Industrial Park S.,

Shenzhen, 518054 China

Tel: +86-755-2643-4858

Fax: +86-755-2664-6353

Email: [email protected]

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ADLINK Technology Inc. (German Liaison Office)

Address: Nord Carree 3, 40477 Duesseldorf, Germany

Tel: +49-211-495-5552

Fax: +49-211-495-5557

Email: [email protected]

ADLINK (French Liaison Office)

Address: 15 rue Emile Baudot, 91300 MASSY Cedex, France

Tel: +33 (0) 1 60 12 35 66

Fax: +33 (0) 1 60 12 35 66

Email: [email protected]

ADLINK Technology Japan Corporation

Address: 151-0072 ᧲ㇺ⼱඙ᐈ䊱⼱㩷

1-1-2 ᦺᣣ↢๮ᐈ䊱⼱䊎䊦 8F

Asahiseimei Hatagaya Bldg. 8F

1-1-2 Hatagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0072, Japan

Tel: +81-3-4455-3722

Fax: +81-3-5333-6040

Email: [email protected]

ADLINK Technology Inc. (Korean Liaison Office)

Address: 昢殾柢儛單割嚂笊壟 60-12 壟昷捒娯 4猻402 笾

No.402, Dongsung B/D, 60-12, Nonhyeon-Dong

Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-010, Korea.

Tel: +82-2-2057-0565

Fax: +82-2-2057-0563

Email: [email protected]

ADLINK Technology Singapore Pte Ltd.

Address: 84 Genting Lane #07-02A, Cityneon Design Centre,

Singapore 349584

Tel: +65-6844-2261

Fax: +65-6844-2263

Email: singapore@adlinktech.com

ADLINK Technology Singapore Pte Ltd. (Indian Liaison Office)

Address: No. 1357, "Anupama", Sri Aurobindo Marg, 9th Cross,

JP Nagar Phase I, Bangalore - 560078, India

Tel: +91-80-65605817

Fax: +91-80-22443548

Email: india@adlinktech.com

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