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NAP7000D User Manual (Version 1.0) ---- 1
NAP7000D
User Manual
ComputerBoards, Inc.
Revision 1.0
July 1998
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Table of Contents
1 NAP7000D INTRODUCTION.....................................................................................................3
1.1 THE CONTENTS OF NAP7000D PACKAGE...................................................................................3
1.2 INSTALLATION ............................................................................................................................4
1.3 UN-INSTALLATION......................................................................................................................5
1.4 SYSTEM DESCRIPTION.................................................................................................................7
2 THE OPERATION OF NAP7000D ............................................................................................8
2.1 STARTING NAP7000D................................................................................................................8
2.2 THE MENU OF NAP7000D’S MAIN WINDOW.............................................................................11
2.3 DETERMINE ALL CB-7000 MODULE CONFIGURATIONS ...........................................................12
2.4 CHOOSE THE COM PORT AND BAUD RATE FOR SEARCH..........................................................14
2.5 CONTROL CB-7000 MODULE WITH NAP7000D........................................................................15
2.6 SETTING CB-7011/D, CB-7012/D, CB-7013/D, CB-7014/D .............................................16
2.7 SETTING THE CB-7017, CB-7018.............................................................................................22
2.8 SETTING THE CB-7021..............................................................................................................25
2.9 SETTING CB-7041, CB-7052, CB-7053....................................................................................28
2.10 SETTING CB-7042, CB-7043 AND CB-7067 ........................................................................31
2.11 SETTING CB-7044, CB-7050, CB-7060...............................................................................33
2.12 DISPLAY THE SETTING RESULT ............................................................................................35
2.13 DISPLAY THE SEARCHING RESULT .......................................................................................36
2.14 SAVE AND OPEN THE SETTING FILE .....................................................................................37
2.15 TO EXIT THE NAP7000D.....................................................................................................38
3 NAP7000D TUTORIAL.............................................................................................................39
3.1 TUTORIAL 1: ONE CB-7017 MODULE........................................................................................39
3.2 TUTORIAL 2: ONE CB-7017 MODULE AND PASSING DATA TO EXCEL........................................43
3.3 TUTORIAL 3: ONE CB-7021 MODULE THE OUTPUT VALUE CONTROLLED BY EXCEL...............48
3.4 TUTORIAL 4: ONE CB-7012, CB-7017, CB-7021 AND CB-7044 MODULE................................51
3.5 TUTORIAL 5: ONE CB-7012, CB-7017, CB-7021 AND CB-7044 MODULE WITH EXCEL ...........53
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1 NAP7000D Introduction
The NAP7000D is a hot-link DDE(Dynamic Data Exchange) server. The DDE is a
communication protocol that enables to exchange data between windows application.
The NAP7000 pass the data acquired from CB-7000 module to other application by
means of the hot-link. Or a user can control the CB-7000 module using the
NAP7000D after establishing these hot-link conversation. The NAP7000D is a mouse
driven system that provides the ability of developing CB-7000 application by just
clicking mouse.
1.1 The Contents of NAP7000D package
The NAP7000D package includes one disk and one manual:
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1.2 Installation
Before Installing, please comfirm the following requirements:
zMicrosoft Windows 95/NT operation system.
zA PC-compatible computer with Pentium chips.
z16 MB RAM Memory.
z2 MB hard disk available space.
zStarting Installation
zInsert disk 1 or disk 2 into your disk drive according to what
platform(95/NT) you using.
zThen clicking Start in the task bar.
zEnter A:Setup as Fig 1-1 shown
zClick OK to start the install process.
Fig 1-1 install the NAP7000D.
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1.3 Un-Installation
zInvoking Control Panel as Fig 1-2 shown.
Fig 1-2
zClick Add/Rem… Programs icon in Control Panel to invoke Add/Remove
Programs Properties.
zSelect NAP7000D to uninstall.
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Fig 1-3 Uninstallation the NAP7000D.
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1.4 System Description
zNAP7000D
The NAP7000D is a software package that facility user to establish the DDE hot-
link conversations between the NAP7000D and other Windows application. After
establishing these conversations, they can exchange information each other. For
example, a user can establish a conversation between NAP7000D to Excel. Then
he can pass the data from NAP7000D to a cell of a sheet in Excel. Further, the
user can analysis these data in this sheet by mean of Excel build in function. In
the following chapter, a tutorial with many examples are introduced that to guide
the user to familiar NAP7000D. With NAP7000D, a user take advantage of the
ability that to control the ICPCOM 7000 series module without having to code
the program.
zI7000.DLL and UART.DLL
The I7000.DLL and UART.DLL are the DLL(Dynamic Linking Library). These two
DLL consists of a set of functions for performing COM port operation. For more
detail information, please refer to NAP7000P User Manual.
zCB-7000 series module
The CB-7000 is a family of network data acquisition and control modules. They
provide A/D, D/A, DI/O, Timer/Counter and other function. For more detail
information, please refer various user manual for CB-7000 series.
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2 The Operation of NAP7000D
2.1 Starting NAP7000D
To start the NAP7000D, click the Start in the task bar as Fig 2-1 shown.
Fig 2-1 Double the NAP7000D icon to start it.
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When NAP7000D loading, a window pop up that show the startup information about
this software package. By default, the startup window will stay on about 3 second.
The user can disappear it by pressing the right button of the mouse. During the startup
time, the NAP7000D will detect automatically the COM port that the CB-7000
module attach to the computer. The startup information is shown as Fig 2-2.
Fig 2-2 The Startup information for NAP7000D.
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After startup information window disappear, the NAP7000D’s main window will be
displayed as Fig 2-3. Also, the detected COM port that CB-7000 module attached to
the computer is displayed in the main window. The user may change the COM port
whenever he demand. For example, when pressing the right button of mouse during
startup time to quit the startup information. The displayed COM port may be wrong.
So the user must select the correct COM port that CB-7000 connected to the computer
before he going on.
Fig 2-3 The NAP7000D main window
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