MATLAB: Am I unable to configure the analog output ranges on the Advantech PCI-1712 for the Data Acquisition Toolbox

Data Acquisition Toolbox

Why am I unable to configure the analog output ranges on the Advantech PCI-1712 for the Data Acquisition Toolbox?

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This bug has been fixed for Release 14 (R14). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

This has been verified as a bug in the Data Acqusition Toolbox 2.3 (R14) configuration files for the Advantech PCI-1712.

To work around thjis issue, add the following line to the [PCI-1712] section of the file MWADVANTECH.INI file in the

$MATLAB\toolbox\daq\daq\private

directory to resolve this problem.

 SWOutputRange=1

Once done, that section should look as follows:

 [PCI-1712]                                                                 
 AIFifo=1024                                                                
 AIMaxSR=1e6                                                                
 AIMinSR=154                                                                
 AIDiffMult=1                                                               
 AIInterruptMode=0                                                          
 AIHwTrigger=1                                                              
 AOMaxSR=0                                                                  
 AOMinSR=0                                                                  
 AOBipolar=1                                                                
 SWOutputRange=1                                                            
 DIOConfigWidth=16                                                          
 DIOInputWidth=0                                                            
 DIOOutputWidth=0                                                           
 DIOPorts=2                                                                 
 SWInputType=1

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This bug has been fixed for Data Acquisition Toolbox 2.6 (R14SP1). For previous releases, please read below for any possible workarounds:

For releases of the Data Acquisition Toolbox prior to Data Acquisition Toolbox 2.5 (R14), please note that Advantech hardware support is not available. In order to obtain support for Advantech hardware, you must upgrade your version of the Data Acquisition Toolbox.

For Data Acquisition Toolbox 2.5 (R14), this is a bug in the initialization file in the way that hardware information for the Advantech PCI-1711L card has been omitted.

To work around this issue, try the following:

1. Quit MATLAB

2. Find the mwadvantech.ini file. It should be in $MATLAB\toolbox\daq\daq\private, where $MATLAB is the location you installed MATLAB to.

3. Back up the mwadvantech.ini file

4. Open the mwadvantech.ini file in a text editor, and find the section that starts "[PCI-1711]". It should be around line 114.

5. Insert the following BETWEEN the [PCI-1711] and [PCI-1712] sections:

 [PCI-1711L] 
 AIFifo=1024 
 AIMaxSR=100e3  
 AIMinSR=1
 AIDiffMult=1
 AIInterruptMode=3 
 AIHwTrigger=0  
 DIOConfigWidth=0  
 DIOInputWidth=16  
 DIOOutputWidth=16 
 DIOPorts=4  
 SWInputType=1

6. Save the INI file and close the text editor.

7. Restart MATLAB.

It should now work.

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