DESCRIPTION

PI660 is for the acquisition, display, recording and network distribution of transducer and other measurement data. It is a 32-bit, multithreaded application available in stand-alone server and client versions for Windows®.

Creating custom software applications is simple using the Component Module Dynamic Link Library (CMD) that is supplied with PI660XP and PI660XPS. Similar to but more powerful than an Application Programmer’s Interface, the CMD Software Developer's Kit (SDK) facilitates custom applications that can provide facility and test control as well as support for third party hardware and software.

Any Window's programming software, Visual Basic, LabVIEW, HP VEE, Excel, C++ or C may be used to create custom applications that call high-level data acquisition and display functions in the CMD. For example one call opens the screen that programs channel parameters or sets sample rates. This means the application programmer does not need to create acquisition and display software and is free to concentrate on programming the test and facility operation.

Test facilities have unique procedures and equipment that require custom software to operate. Graphical User-Interface software like Visual Basic and Lab View simplify writing the operating program but lack the power of more rigorous programming languages when it comes to performing high speed data acquisition, recording and display. The CMD supplies that power to any Windows software application.