SCA3000 DEMO KIT
User Manual
4.1 Resetting GUI and µC
SCA3000 DEMO KIT GUI software can be reinitialised by selecting the “Reset demo” display from
pull down menu, see Figure 13.
µC can be resetted by exiting from the GUI and then pressing the reset button (Figure 1) on USB
interface board.
4.2 Uninstalling the GUI and USB driver
The GUI software and the USB driver (FTDI Serial Converter Driver) can be removed from
Windows Control Panel Add/Remove Programs. Please notice that removing the FTDI Serial
Converter Driver (USB driver) may affect on functionality of some other programs (such as
SCP1000 demo kit GUI).
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Advanced data logging
Acceleration data can be saved from GUI software by pressing the “Save to file” button (Figure 2).
Data can be logged also by using the Windows HyperTerminal software and macro language that
is used to control the µC of the SCA3000 DEMO KIT.
Please notice that GUI software and Windows HyperTerminal software can not be open at the
same time. Follow the steps below to start the data logging:
1. Connect SCA3000 DEMO KIT with USB cable to PC
2. Open GUI software to see the correct COM port number (SETUP display, see Figure 12).
3. Close the GUI software.
4. Open Windows HyperTerminal software from CD-ROM:
−
“SCA3000_demo_HyperTerminal_connection.ht”,
or
−
see detailed serial communication settings from Table 2.
5. Press demo reset button (see Figure 1). SCA3000 DEMO KIT sends an info text to
HyperTerminal (see Figure 14). If the HyperTerminal software is unable to connect the
SCA3000 DEMO KIT or the info text does not appear,
- Press
disconnect
,
-
change the COM port number to correct from port properties ,
- press
connect ,
-
press reset button on SCA3000 DEMO KIT.
until info text appears to HyperTerminal screen (see Figure 14).
6. After the info text appears on HyperTerminal, send text file “SCA3000_data_logger.txt”
from CD-ROM (“Transfer” pull down menu
→
“Send Text File…”
→
browse for
SCA3000_data_logger_macro.txt)
7. The text file is actually a macro that runs in an endless loop. The macro sends 3-axis
acceleration data in hex format to HyperTerminal (see Figure 15). Example of data format:
0x1ef0,0x0130,0x01f0,Z-Y-X
where “0x” indicates for hex format, and “
Z-Y-X
” the axis order. The Z-axis hex output is
1EF0, which is ‘0001 1110 1111 0000’ in binary format.
8. The data can be stored by capturing the data in to file:
“Transfer” pull down menu
→
“Capture Text…”
→
save captured data into wanted file and
folder.
9. Data capturing can be stopped from:
“Transfer” pull down menu
→
“Capture Text…”
→
“Stop”
Macro language is used to control the SCA3000 DEMO KIT. It can be also used to configure the
SCA3000 sensor. For more detailed information of macro language, please refer to “SCA3000
DEMO KIT macro language description 8259200”.
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