유니버셜 소프트웨어 ADDIPACK

(UNIVERSAL SOFTWARE ADDIPACK)

You are developing an application and are looking for the ideal solution:
flexible, maintenance-free and future-oriented.
With the universal software ADDIPACK, a new type of product comes
on the measuring and control engineering market.

Up to now, to implement an application, you had to install and run
each single board separately. When exchanging a board, you had to perform
a complete new installation and to adapt your application to the new component.
Each board was supplied with its own API (a function library).
Two different types of boards with the same functionality like for example
“digital input channels” were supplied with two different sets of driver functions.
Why not one function for the same functionality?
At ADDI-DATA, we have answered this question with a new software concept:
the ADDIPACK software which is now supplied with the new boards for the PCI bus
(List of the boards supported).
The ADDIPACK software has now been used successfully for about one year.


Content of the ADDIPACK software:

• ADDIREG, a 32-bit program for Windows 2000/NT/98/95.
  With this program the user can registrate all the hardware information
  required for using the ADDI-DATA boards.
• ADDIDRIVER with API functions for the 32-bit controlling
  of the ADDI-DATA boards.
• ADDEVICE Manager manages the configuration of the virtual board.

The ADDI-DATA virtual board

The ADDIPACK software is based on the principle of a virtual board:
the functionalities of all the ADDI-DATA boards which are installed
in the system (for example digital input, analog output, timer, ...)
are interpreted as the functionalities of one single (virtual) board.
Instead of one function for each board, ADDIPACK offers only one function for all boards
with the same functionality.
When for each hardware functionality only one software function is installed,
the user gets a function library which can control every ADDI-DATA board.
This function library is considered as a “virtual board”, i.e. a pool of functions from which
functionalities can be called up without directly controlling a specific board.

Dynamic Management

The ADDI-DATA virtual board can be managed dynamically.
The user can control the number of functionalites and types in his application.
Functions like b_ADDIDATA_GetNumberOfDigitalInputs can return this information.
New boards can therefore be added or exchanged and their resources used by the virtual board.
For the application, it is not important to know from which board the resources are taken.
The link between the hardware boards and the virtual board is made through the program
ADDEVICE-Manager (included in ADDIPACK) which displays the number and
types of the available resources.


ADDIPACK supports the following functionalities

Almost all functionalities of the ADDI-DATA product range are supported:

• Digital I/O
• Analog I/O
• Temperature measurement
• Resistance measurement
• Timer
• Watchdog
• Counter

ADDIPACK will be further developed along with new ADDI-DATA boards.
New functions will be added, the program will however remain downward compatible.


Boards supplied with ADDIPACK

The following ADDI-DATA boards are already supplied with ADDIPACK:

• APCI-1016: 16 digital input channels, isolated
• APCI-1032: 32 digital input channels, isolated
• APCI-1516: 8 digital input and 8 digital output channels, isolated
• APCI-1564: 32 digital input and 32 digital output channels, isolated
• APCI-2016: 16 digital output channels, isolated
• APCI-2032: 32 digital output channels, isolated
• APCI-2200: Relay output board
• APCI-3200: Temperature measurement for thermocouples or RTDs, isolated.
• APCI-3501: 8 analog output channels, isolated
• APCI-035: Watchdog board, isolated

Future ADDI-DATA boards will be supplied with ADDIPACK


A future-oriented investment

With the universal software ADDIPACK, a new type of product comes on the measuring
and control engineering market.
You can implement, program and also modify your application in a fast and easy way.
New technologies can also be used faster and easier; new functions can be supplied
as update without hardware modification.
The result is less programming time and an immensely increased flexibility.
These are most important factors today in order to keep up with the technological development.