Chapter 3 - Installation and Setup
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The program will now start its installation. During the installation, Setup may upgrade some of the Windows shared
components and files. The Setup may ask you to reboot after it complete if some of the components it replaced
where used by another application during the installation – do so before attempting to use the software.
You can now continue with the installation to install the board. After the board installation is complete you can test
your installation by starting a panel program that let you control the board interactively. The panel program can be
started by selecting it from the Start, Programs, GTDIO menu located in the Windows Taskbar.
Overview of the GTDIO Software
Once the software installed, the following tools and software components are available:
PXI/PCI Explorer applet
– use to configure the PXI chassis, controllers and devices. This is required for
accurate identification of your PXI instruments later on when installed in your system. The applet
configuration is saved to PXISYS.ini and PXIeSYS.ini that are used by Marvin Test Solutions instruments,
the VISA provider and VISA based instruments drivers. In addition, the applet can be used to assign
chassis numbers, Legacy Slot numbers and instruments alias names.
VISA
is a standard maintained by the VXI Plug & Play System Alliance and the PXI Systems Alliance
organizations (
). VISA provides a standard way for
instrument manufacturers and users to write and use instruments drivers. The VISA resource managers
such as National Instruments
Measurement & Automation
(NI-MAX) can display and configure
instruments and their address (similar to Marvin Test Solutions’ PXI/PCI Explorer).
GTDIO Panel
– use to configure, control and display the board settings.
DIOEasy
– Windows application for creating and analyzing vector files used by DIO boards.
GTDIO driver
– a DLL (GTDIO32.DLL) located in the Windows System folder used to program and
control the board.
Programming files and examples
– interface files and libraries for various programming tools, see later in
this chapter for a complete list of files, programming languages and development tools supported by the
driver.
Documentation
– On-Line help and User’s Guide.
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