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Computer Control
7.1 Overview of Computer Control
ES601-US provides a communications interface that allows personal computer (PC) software to control the
safety analyzer and acquire measurement data in realtime as safety tests are being performed. Although a
terminal emulation program such as Windows
HyperTerminal
may be used to operate ES601-US in this
manner, computer control is more suited to users who intend to develop their own PC software to satisfy
particular testing or documentation requirements. Alternatively, users may prefer existing third-party
software that provides means for instrument control and data acquisition through simple user-written scripts
(e.g. MEBEDO
fundamed
).
When testing leakage, ES601-US saves results in the Test Record for all normal and single fault conditions
enabled by the user in the test setup. However, if the user has enabled supplementary test conditions
("DUT-OFF" tests; isolated data I/O tests; ungrounded metal part tests), then ES601-US records only the
maximum leakage result observed under the supplementary conditions. ES601-US computer control allows
user-supplied software to acquire leakage data from every measurement performed, whether the test
condition is normal, single-fault, or supplementary.
For computer control, ES601-US is connected to a serial COM Port on the PC. For PC's without a COM
Port, any third-party USB-to-RS232 converter cable can be used, which will allow the user's software to
communicate with ES601-US via a
Virtual COM Port
(a Virtual COM Port or "VCP" is driver software
which is supplied with the USB converter cable, or which may exist as part of the PC operating system).
In general principle, the user's PC software begins by opening a COM Port (physical, or VCP for USB
connections). The software transmits a command via the COM Port to ES601-US which selects and starts a
Safety AutoSequence. As each step of the sequence is completed, ES601-US transmits measurement results
to the PC as a string of formatted ASCII text containing data fields delimited by the comma character (CSV
data format). Upon conclusion of the sequence, ES601-US sends an "END" message to the PC. Optionally,
the user's software may then issue another command to cause ES601-US to return a formatted Test Report
document containing the measurements recorded by ES601-US during the test. The format of this
document is the same as that obtained when printing a previously-saved Test Record to either the
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