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Welcome to Advantech GENIE STARTER V2.0
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Advantech Genie Starter Package
MS Windows Based Process Control/Data Acquisition Software Package
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* This starter package is to show you how the actual program works. *
* This package demonstrates features in Genie regular version as well *
* as Genie Plus version. It works the same way as the full packages *
* except the following differences: *
* *
* 2 Analog Input Blocks *
* 1 Digital Output Block *
* 1 Digital Input Block *
* 1 Temperature Measurement Block *
* Analog Output Block disabled *
* High-speed Analog Input Block (FAI) disabled *
* Counter/Freq Measurement Block disabled *
* Hardware Alarm Block disabled *
* DDE Server and Client Block disabled *
* Log File Block disabled *
* RS-232 block disabled *
* Network Input/Output Blocks disabled *
* User Defined Tool Demo only *
* ************************************************************************
* THIS SOFTWARE PACKAGE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND *
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The first thing you need to do after the installation of GENIE is to setup
GENIE "device(s)" to match any hardware you want to install. This procedure
basically tells GENIE what kind of hardware you will be using with the
program and what the switch/jumper settings are, etc. There are two ways
to setup the device(s) -- by using the Device Installation Utility (DEVINST)
directly (by double-clicking on the so-named icon) or by calling the utility
through GENIE's "Setup Device" menu. Both procedures are identical and
have the same effect. The GENIE manual and on-line help describe the Device
Installation procedure in detail. To setup the hardware itself, please
consult your hardware device manuals and use the GENIE device driver
on-line help.
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Running the DEMO Strategy using the DEMO I/O Device
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The DEMO I/O device is a software simulated I/O board that allows
you to demonstrate all GENIE functions that don't connect to the
actual I/O hardware. The DEMO I/O device consists of three channels
of analog input and two channels of digital I/O. Analog input Channel
0 simulates a +/- 5 volt sine wave; Channel 1 a +/- 5 volt square
wave; and Channel 2 a +/- 5 volt saw tooth wave.
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New features of Advantech Genie V2.0 (5/1/95)
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New Blocks:
1. The new high speed analog input block can be used to acquire data from I/O
cards capable of transferring data through Direct Memory Access (DMA) or
Interrupts.
2. A block capable of playing a Wavefile based on certain input conditions has
been added.
3. An Alarm Log Block for alarm logging and acknowledgement is now supported.
New Display Items:
1. Knob Control Display
2. Anameter (Analog Meter) Display
3. Slider Control Display
4. Historical Trending Display and logfile(s)
5. Hi-Speed Historical Trending Display and logfile
6. Conditional Text Display
7. Conditional Bitmap Display
8. Conditional Button Display
New Menu Commands:
1. The Runtime Preference Menu now allows you to enable the Runtime Event Log
and Password Checking
2. Change Password Menu
3. Administration Menu allows for supervisor changing of user ID's and Passwords
4. Network Menu allows for changing of the Network Station Name
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Example Strategies
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Since the example strategies all use the DEMO driver if a driver is needed,
you can run them without hardware (I/O Cards) installed.
DEMO.GNI -- Simple strategy used to demonstrate an Analog Input block
using the DEMO driver's Sine Wave connected to the display.
DEMO2.GNI -- More advanced DEMO strategy used to show various displays and
to demonstrate the USER PROGRAM BLOCK and On/Off Control block.
TIMER.GNI -- Demonstrates the timer block features.
SHOWALL.GNI -- Demonstrates all of the display designer's features in
a full screen display window.
CONDI.GNI -- Demonstrates conditional text and bitmap display items.
COUNTER.GNI -- Demonstrates one possible use of the Counter block.
RANDOM.GNI -- Demonstrates the rnd() and sin() function of the user program
block.
SMETER.GNI -- Demonstrates the slider and anameter display items.
ERROR.GNI -- Demonstrates the wrong way to design the strategy. The data
flow in this strategy forms a infinite loop which cause the
run-time to ignore some blocks. Use User Programmable
Blocks and variables to store and retrieve data to accomplish
this as demonstrated in CORRECT.GNI.
CORRECT.GNI -- Demonstrates the correct way to design the strategy. It
correctly reset a timer every 10 seconds without forming
a circular dependency problem.
SCRTEST.GNI -- This strategy is used to show how you can use script to
interact with users and control the execution of a strategy.
Run EXAMPLE.SCR to start this strategy.