DASP-52016 Card User’s Manual
Hardware Installation
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2.5 Quick Setup and Test
To install a new DASP-52016 into an IBM PC compatible computer,
at first, power-off the PC and open its chassis, then plug the
DASP-52016 into a PCI slot of mother-board. The DASP-52016 is a
plug and play device for MS Windows, and the OS will detect your
DASP-52016 after you power on the PC. The detail of driver and
software installation is described in software manual of DASP-52016.
After the hardware and software installation, user can emulate and
test DASP-52016 step by step as follows.
To perform a complete test of DASP-52016, we can
route the input signals of DASP-52016 with a
specific input pattern for read-back. And the output
status of each channel can be observed directly
from the on-board led indicator of each channel, or
to estimate the mechanical movement of the SPDT
relay of each channel. And then, by following the
DASP-52016 test branch of the
ToolWorkShop
which will fully test all the digital I/O channels of
the DASP-52016 as descried in the following
paragraphs.
