ADVANTECH DAQ

STARTUP MANUAL
For Windows Users
Introduction Driver Installation
This document will help you use the Advantech DAQ If your computer is set to auto play, the CD-
device in the shortest time. The contents include: ROM will be played automatically and the set
insertting the hardware into your system, installing up programs will be launched. Choose the SDK
the device driver, necessary files for installation, package to install.
setting up the device, testing the devices supported Once the device drivers are installed we suggest
installing DAQNavi SDK for further device testing,
tutorial and so on. application developing and so on. If the DAQNavi
SDK is installed successfully, the device driver,
i
Device Installation cation
examples, manuals, Advantech Navigator, videos
Follow the steps below:
1. Turn off your computer and any connected
accessories, switch off the power. Once the DAQNavi SDK has been installed on
Note: Turn off your computer power supply whenever your system, installing the device driver will be
you install or remove cards, or connect and disconnect very easy. You can install driver, uninstall driver,
cables.
2. If the Board ID of the device can be set by Navigator. Here, we'll use, “Install driver” as an
Switch, dial the switch and set the Board ID to be example. For other operations and methods refer to
a non-zero value. the SDK manual in “DAQNavi_User_Interface\\
3. Carefully grasp the edge of the device and insert Key Concept\\DAQNavi SDK Key Concept\\
it into you system. Secure the device with screws. Device\\Add/Remove/Update device”. The
Note: Ensure that PCI cards are installed in PCI slots. following steps show how to install driver in
4. If necessary, now you can install appropriate Advantech Navigator:
accessories such terminal boards, cables and so Step1: Open Advantech Navigator from
on. “Start>All Programs>Advantech
5. Insert the CD-ROM (included in the packaging) Automation>DAQNavi>Advantech Navigator”.
into your system, plug in the power and turn on Step2: Click “+” on the left of node named
the computer. “Supported Devices” to expand the contents.
Then all the supported devices will be listed under
this node.
Step3: Choose the device you want to install, right
click on the node, there will be a pop up dialog
Notes shown, click “Install Driver” on the dialog, and,
the driver will begin to install.
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This manual is for Advantech DAQ devices for
Windows Users If you don’t want to install DAQNavi SDK
1st Edition the installation type you need is “deployed
installation”, you can just install the device driver
August 2011 only. There are two things to be noticed.
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 Note 1: Pre-install is supported; meaning you can
install the driver before inserting the device into the Device Confirmation
computer. In Windows 7.0 The system will recognize After the driver installed, you can verify whether it is
the device and install the driver automatically; in properly installed on your system.
Windows XP, a pop-up dialog will be shown when
1. Access the System Device Manager.
the device is detected by the system. Just follow the
instructions and click next 2. Check “Advantech DAQ Devices” node, if the
driver installed properly, the device will be listed
Note 2:Similarly with PCI device installation mode, under this node window will look like this:
Advantech ISA device also adopt the Pnp mode, but
once installation is complete, do these steps manually.
Step1: Open the System Device Manager.
Step2: Find the device under “Advantech DAQ
Devices” node, for example PCM-3810 is listed
on the “Advantech DAQNavi Devices” tab in the
following picture.
Step3: Double click on the name, choose “Resource”
page on the pop up dialog. Uncheck the “Use In addition to confirm device in System Device
automatic settings” if it is checked; modify the
"I/O range", "IRQ", "DMA" to be same with Step1: Open Advantech Navigator from
your hardware setting (by Jumper or Switch). “Start>All Programs>Advantech
Automation>DAQNavi>Advantech Navigator”.
Step 2: Click the “+” on the left to unfold the content.
If the device hardware and driver installed successfully,
the device will be listed under DAQNavi>Devices>
Installed Devices and the icon will be as follows:
PCI series device: ;USB series device: ;
PCM series device:
Note: you can confirm your device status by the icons:
PCI series device: means you have installed the
device hardware and driver successfully, but right now
the device has been removed from the computer, or
Step4: Restart your computer Once Step 3 is some reasons make the device hardware not existed in
complete, otherwise, the resource settings will not the computer, which we called “pseudo device”.
take effect. In such conditions, you need to install the driver again.
Click “+” on the left of “Supported Devices
the device which you want to install, right click on the
device and choose “Install driver” ,then the driver
will start to install.
If you don’t want to install driver again, you can
remove the configuration, thus the driver and
configuration will be removed totally from your
computer. Right click on the fake device node under
“Installed Devices”, and then choose “Remove
”.
USB series device: also means it is a pseudo
device, the meaning is same with PCI, refer to the
above contents.
PCM series device: for PCM series device, if
you removed the device manually, the device will be
changed to pseudo device and the icon will be like this.
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You can also remove device configuration or install Step 2: Find the device under “Advantech DAQ
the driver again. Devices” node and double click on it. Select “Device
Configuration” tab and click on the “Configure…”
Device Settings button to open the configuration dialog. The device
setting dialog box provided by the device driver for
There are two ways to configure your device. One is
users to set the device property values, and these
setting your device in Advantech Navigator; the other
values will be saved in the system. The device property
is in System Device Manager. We strongly suggest
will be referenced by the device driver functions.
setting device in Advantech Navigator once you have
installed the DAQNavi SDK. It is very convenient
to use or do other things such as testing the device
after setting.
1. Setting device in Advantech Navigator.
Step1: Open the Advantech Navigator
from “Start>All Programs>Advantech
Automation>DAQNavi>Advantech Navigator”.
Step2: Click the "+" on the left of “Installed Devices”
to unfold the content. If the software and hardware
installation are completed, the device is listed under
DAQNavi>Devices>Installed Devices. Click
“Device Setting” to open the device setting dialog box
on the right, and then you can change default setting
of device supported functions such as device, Analog
Input, Analog Output,Digtial input/ Output,Counter
related functions and so on.

Step 3: Click on the button “Configure…”

to open the configuration dialog.

2. Setting devices in System Device Manager.

It doesn’t matter that you have not installed DAQNavi
SDK. If the software and hardware installation are
complete, you will see "PCI-1712" in the System
Device Manager and setting the device by System
Device Manager by following these steps:
Step 1: Open the System Device Manager.
When you check the checkbox of "Update Device",
then click the "OK" button, the configuration
information will be set into the device.
When you check the checkbox of "Update System
Database", then click the "OK" button, configuration
information will be set into the system registry.
Click the "OK" button to exit the configure dialog
and accept the changes.

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 Click the "Cancel" button to exit the configure dialog
without save.
Testing the Device
Attach accessories such as terminal board, wiring cable
to the device in order to input signal to the device.
For signal connection and pin assignment refer to the
device’s manual. Follow the steps to open the manual:
Step1: Open Advantech Navigator from
“Start>All Programs>Advantech
Automation>DAQNavi>Advantech Navigator”.
Step 2: Click the "+" on the left of the device under Examples, Manuals and Video Tutorials
“Installed Devices” to unfold the content, you can see
DAQNavi examples are included in DAQNavi SDK
a node named “Reference”, this is the manual node.
package, which aims to fasten your application
Step 3: Click “+” on the left “Reference” to open the developing by programming. These examples are
manual. Signal connection schematic diagrams can be written under different ADE (Application development
found at “Device Introduction/Signal Connections”. environments) with different programming languages,
including C++ Console, C# Console, MFC, C#,
VB.NET, Qt, Delphi, Java and so on. You can develop
programs by referring these examples. If you have
installed DAQNavi SDK, these examples files can be
found at “C:\Advantech\DAQNavi\Examples\...”.
For detailed information about DAQNavi examples,
please refer to the “Using Examples” parts in
DAQNavi SDK manual.
You have two ways to choose and read these examples.
1.Find and open the examples in “C:\Advantech\
You can now test your device in Advantech Navigator. DAQNavi\Examples\...”path directly.

Step 1: Open the Advantech Navigator 2.From “Start>All Programs>Advantech

from “Start>All Programs>Advantech Automation>DAQNavi>DAQNavi Examples”.
Automation>DAQNavi>Advantech Navigator”. After you installed DAQNavi SDK, all the manuals
Step 2: Click the "+" on the left of “Installed including SDK manual named DAQNavi_User_
Devices” to unfold the content. If the software and Interface.chm and all the Advantech DAQ devices’
hardware installation are completed, the device is manual can be found at “C:\Advantech\DAQNavi\
listed under DAQNavi>Devices>Installed Devices. Manuals\English\...” . Now all the manuals of
Click “Device Test” to open the device testing dialog DAQNavi are in English. These manuals will be
box on the right, and then you can run to test supported translated into Chinese or other languages in the future.
functions such as Analog Input, Analog Output,Digtial You have three ways to choose and read these manuals.
input/ Output,Counter related functions and so on. 1. Find and open the manuals in the path
Select different tabs to test various function of the of “C:\Advantech\DAQNavi\Manuals\
device. English\...”directly.
2. From “Start>All Programs>Advantech
Automation>DAQNavi>DAQNavi Manuals”.
3. In Advantech Navigator, you can read the SDK
manual and the entire Advantech DAQ device’s
individual manual. Open Navigator, there is a
node named “SDKs”. Click the “+” on the left of
“SDKs” to open the contents, the SDK manual
named “DAQNavi User Interface Manual” is
listed below it.

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The individual manual of Advantech DAQ devices project and add what necessary file and so on. With the
can also be accessible in Advantech Navigator. help of video tutorial, you can master the DAQNavi
Open the Navigator, there is a node named SDK using as soon as possible. DAQNavi video
tutorials are also included in DAQNavi SDK package.
If you have installed DAQNavi SDK, these videos
files can be found at “C:\Advantech\DAQNavi\
VideoTutorial\...”. These videos are also accessible
in the Advantech Navigator. Open the Advantech
Navigator and click “+” on the left of “SDKs “node,
then there is a node named “Video Tutorial” below
it, click “+” on the left of “Video Tutorial” to expand
the contents, then all the videos are listed below, click
the one you want to watch , the video will start to play
on the right window.

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“Supported Devices”, Click “+” on the left of this
node, then the entire device manual will be listed
under this node. Click on the device node under
“Supported Devices” will open the device’s manual.
If you want to further develop by programming with
DAQNavi SDK, we suggest watching the video
tutorial firstly, which will help you learn how to create

Technical Support & Customer Feedback

If you have any further questions or suggestions, don't
hesitate to contact us.
There are three ways to contact us:
1. Using the “Customer Feedback” section of
Advantech Navigator > open Advantech
Navigator and you will find the last node on the
left-side tree is “Custom Feedback” , click it
and open the feedback page on the right, adding
your system information, software information,
product's information and questions, then send an
e-mail to us.
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information about services, repairs, extended
warranty or other services, or contact us by
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