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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: *
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- * 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 *
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- * 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- DEMO.GNI -- Simple strategy used to demonstrate an Analog Input block
- using the DEMO driver's Sine Wave connected to the display.
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- DEMO2.GNI -- More advanced DEMO strategy used to show various displays and
- to demonstrate the USER PROGRAM BLOCK and On/Off Control block.
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- TIMER.GNI -- Demonstrates the timer block features.
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- SHOWALL.GNI -- Demonstrates all of the display designer's features in
- a full screen display window.
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- CONDI.GNI -- Demonstrates conditional text and bitmap display items.
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- COUNTER.GNI -- Demonstrates one possible use of the Counter block.
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- RANDOM.GNI -- Demonstrates the rnd() and sin() function of the user program
- block.
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- SMETER.GNI -- Demonstrates the slider and anameter display items.
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- 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.
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- CORRECT.GNI -- Demonstrates the correct way to design the strategy. It
- correctly reset a timer every 10 seconds without forming
- a circular dependency problem.
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- 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.
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