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ANALOG INPUTS

ANALOG OUTPUTS

COUNTER TIMERS

DIGITAL I/O

SOFTWARE

Drivers and Downloads

Full list of available Downloads: Software Packages, Drivers, Manuals, and other documents

Information about our Free Software packages:

ACCES is proud to provide a full suite of software support with every Data Acquisition product. We are committed to supporting the most popular operating systems and platforms for our customers. Currently we are actively supporting Windows XP through Windows 10, including "Server 2008," "Embedded," and "Compact" flavors in both 32-bit and 64-bit for all plug-and-play products including PCI, PCI Express, USB, and more. Many products continue to ship with support for additional operating systems such as DOS, Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, and 2000.

Samples

Among the software we deliver with our products are sample programs in a wide variety of programming languages. These samples are used to demonstrate the software interfaces to our products — and many can be used as-is in your production environments, or to test functionality of the devices out-of-the-box. We're currently actively supporting sample programs in Visual C# and Delphi with many devices including samples in Visual Basic and Visual C/C++, as well as Borland C/C++ 3.1 for DOS. Additionally we provide National Instruments LabVIEW compatible DLLs and demonstration VIs for many of our devices.

Drivers

Drivers for various operating systems are also provided, including active support for Windows XP -> 10 — all in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, and including consumer, server, and embedded varieties — as well as the Linux kernels 2.6 and newer and recent macOS versions. Many products continue to ship with driver support for Windows 95, 98, Me, NT4, and Windows 2000, but support for these operating systems is considered deprecated.

Setup Programs and Utilites

Our Data Acquisition devices also include a graphical setup utility that walks you through the process of configuring any option jumpers or switches on the device, as well as explaining a little about the various connectors present.

Many devices also include utility programs - little tools to make your use of the device easier, such as WinRISC, a "Really Incredibly Simple Communications" terminal program that lets you get started instantly with serial devices.

"Register Level" Documentation

Besides all this software in all these languages and operating systems ACCES has a policy of open and transparent development: none of our lowest-level "register" interfaces are hidden from you — we document every register in every bus card, every command in every serial board, and every usb control transfer in every USB Data Acquisition board. These lowest-level interfaces allow you to develop for our products in ANY operating system or language, regardless of our actively supporting it or having a driver for it. We have customers actively developing in ADA, Android, Python, Java, MATLAB, Solaris, and more, just by referring to our complete low-level interface documentation! And we provide the full source code to all of our drivers, regardless of operating system, to give you an even bigger head start in your own development tasks.

No Fees or Royalties

All of this software is provided at no additional charge, and is licensed under any of a variety of flexible — and royalty free — options. Check out our software license explanation if you'd like more information.

non-plug-and-play driver install guide for Windows

Please refer to the Non-PnP Install Guide for instructions to get your PC/104 and ISA bus devices installed in modern Windows.

Custom Software

ACCES also offers Custom Software Services for our products. Our prices are unbelievably low, often as inexpensive as free! If you need something tweaked to support your needs, or an entire enterprise application developed from scratch, it is definitely worth your time to inquire with us, first.

Further information about available ACCES Software:

Redistributing Windows Drivers

A list of ACCES drivers and the files that compose them under different versions of Windows, so you can easily redistribute ACCES cards and drivers.

Specifications

Analog Inputs

• No. of Channels: Eight true differential inputs, or eight single-ended inputs optional
• Programmable Ranges: 0-5V, 0-10V, ±5V, ±10V, (4-20mA as a factory option)
• Conversion Frequency: 100K Samples per Second
• Resolution: 12-Bit
• Differential Input Impedance: 2Meg Ohms w/pre-amp
• Preamplifier gain: 1 standard, Optional gains up to 200 upon request
• Reference Output Voltage: 4.096V ±0.02V
• Common Mode Voltage: ±200V
• Common Mode Rejection Ratio: 86dB typical
• Integral Nonlinearity: 1 LSB maximum, Monotonic
• Full Power-Down Mode: 1µA maximum
• Standby Power-Down Mode: 400µA maximum
• Accuracy: 0.2% of full scale
• Gain Temperature Coefficient: 6 ppm / °C typical, bipolar; 8ppm/ °C typical, unipolar
• Noise levels: ±1 LSB typical
• A/D triggering method: Software selectable: programmable timer, program command

Analog Outputs

• Channels: 4
• Voltage Ranges: 0-5V, 0-10V, ±5V, ±10V
• Conversion Frequency: 100K Conversions per second
• Resolution 12-Bit
• Output Drive Capability: 3 mA per channel
• Power-Down Mode Current Draw: 1µA, maximum
• Relative Accuracy: ±2 LSB, typical
• Trigger Source(s): Software selectable: programmable timer, program command

Digital Inputs/Outputs

• Programmable Peripheral Int.: 82C55A
• Channels: 24, pulled up to 5V via 10K (or pulled down to ground factory option)
• Buffered Channels: 16 (ports A & B)
• Input Voltage: Logic low: -0.03V min, 0.8V max;
• Logic High: 2.2V min, 5.8V max
• Input Current: ±1uA Max
• Output Voltage:
  • Logic low: 0.0V min, 0.4V max
  • Logic High: 3.7V min, 5.0V max
• Output Current:
  • Ports A and B
    • Logic low: 64mA Sink
    • Logic High: 32mA Source
  • Port C
    • Logic low: 2.5mA Sink
    • Logic High: 2.5mA Source
• Modes supported: Mode 0 (1 and 2 are factory options)
• Change of State Detection 8 inputs (port C)

Counter/Timer

• Peripheral Interface Timer: Type 82C54
• Counters 3 x 16-Bit down counters
• Clock Frequency Output: 1Mhz
• Inputs/Outputs Fully Buffered
• Native Modes: Pulse on terminal count, retriggerable one-shot, rate generator, square wave, software triggered strobe, hardware triggered strobe.
• Software Support: Event Counter, Frequency Output, Frequency and Pulse Measurement

General

• Power Required (using ±12V and +5V):
  • +12VDC: 30 mA typical
  • -12VDC: 30 mA typical
  • +5VDC: 40 mA typical
• Power Required (using only +5V, with the optional DC/DC Converter):
  • +5VDC: 240 mA
• Environmental: 0°C to +70°C standard, optional -40°C to +85°C
• Interrupt Requests: Eleven channels, IRQ 3-7, 9-12, 14, 15
• Interrupt Status Register: Indicates source(s) of interrupt
• Interrupt Enable/Disable: Software Controlled