WaveView

Enhanced features such as filter type, cutoff frequency,

IEPE current source, and bridge configuration automatically

appear when hardware is added to the WaveBook system.

There are no switches to set and WaveView automatically

updates itself for new configurations.

Click to

review system

configuration and acquisition

parameters such as scan rate, pre- and post-trigger usage,

and trigger criteria.

Scope Mode allows customizing and displaying of multiple

traces; it supports cursors, re-scaling, and more.

Store

data to disk in real-time; the auto re-arm function, with

automatic file naming, supports back-to-back acquisition

of over one million captures without user intervention.

Review acquired waveforms with a strip chart style display

via PostView.

Strain gage setup to calibrate WBK16 strain gage channels. WaveView

WaveView is a Windows-based setup and acquisition application

that allows you to configure, display, and save data to disk within

minutes of taking the WaveBook Out-of-the-Box. WaveView provides

a point-and-click interface that simplifies operation of the WaveBook

by allowing setup of all hardware, including the field-installable WBK

options, without programming or connecting icons.

Unlike the mere example programs that many suppliers provide

with data acquisition hardware, WaveView is a full-featured

acquisition and display engine that provides all the functional-

ity needed for many data-logging and display applications. For

more frequency-domain analysis applications, use eZ-Analyst

or DASYLab?.

WaveView’s intuitive approach to hardware control simplifies

system setup by automatically querying the WaveBook upon

connection to your PC. As WBK options are added for signal

conditioning or increased system channel count, WaveView’s

channel configuration spreadsheet automatically expands to

accommodate the additional channels. Specific channel charac-

teristics, such as gain, unipolar/bipolar, and channel labels, are

automatically updated, and any additional functionality (such

as low-pass filtering, filter cutoff, or excitation output), also

automatically appear in the channel-configuration spreadsheet.

WaveView is also designed for easy operation with display and

analysis packages. WaveView provides data in formats compatible

with a variety of sophisticated display and analysis packages,

including MATLAB?.

Included WaveView is an Out-of-the-Box setup, acquisition, and real-time display program

Designate an individual data channel as active or inactive

by clicking on a select channel.

Reading column provides quick indication of sensor condi-

tion before acquisition begins.

Choose different ranges or gains for each channel, based on

the particular WBK options installed. Bipolar and unipolar

scales can also be selected for each channel.

Assign each channel a unique label, which will be auto-

matically referenced throughout WaveView. Choose the

desired engineering units in which to display acquired

data, based on the installed WBK options. Parameters can

also be entered to perform mX+b scaling on each reading

before displaying it.

Use auto-zero to remove small offsets such as transducer

drift or pre-load conditions prior to acquisition.

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Note: The WBK40 and WBK41 are not

currently supported in WaveView. We

recommend using DASYLab?when

using these modules, which includes

full support for the WBK40/41. The

WBK40/41 are also supported in

LabVIEW?, and DaqCOM. If it is

necessary to use these modules in

conjunction with a WaveView appli-

cation, then it is necessary to launch

a second, concurrent application to

acquire data from the WBK40/41 into

s eparate data files.

You can configure the WaveBook via WaveView’s scan and trigger configuration screen

Supports continuous or

single-shot capture

and

display modes.

Provides zoom-in and zoom-out window control of the

x-axis.

Displays user label and cursor data values.

Scroll through all data.

Provides auto-scale for quick maximization of the y-axis display.

Automatically scales axis in user-defined engineering units.Enables cursor for on-screen measurements.

Scan and Trigger Configuration. The WaveBooks’ powerful event-capture capability is made available through the simple, fill-in-the-blank style boxes in WaveView. In addition to single-channel, manual, and external TTL, advanced triggering for multichannel, digital pattern, and pulse trigger is also available. When using multichannel trigger all channels can be combined with boolean “AND” & “OR” operators to begin the acquisition at just the right time. In digital pattern mode, the WaveBook triggers on a user-defined bit pattern making it easy to associate analog data with digital sequences.

Unique to the WaveBook is the pulse trigger capability shown below. Typically available in systems many times its price, pulse

trigger allows capturing

that elusive event by

defining the level of the signal and pulse width criteria. Now “runt” pulses or glitches

buried in apparently good signals can be easily captured.

Scope Mode. Unlike a traditional scope with only two to four channels, WaveView’s Scope Mode allows any eight channels to be displayed. Furthermore, WaveView is not handicapped by the small memory limitations of DSOs. In fact, WaveView dynamically and transparently allocates a PC’s RAM prior to beginning an acquisition. A simple point-and-click is all that’s necessary to initiate multi-Msample acquisitions. In addition, because the data is already in the PC’s RAM, a second point-and-click on the disk icon automatically saves this data to disk for import into PostView, a post-acquisition waveform review package, or into analysis packages, such as MATLAB ?, DADiSP ?, or Excel ?.

Allows selection of internal or external clock.

Lets you individually set acquisition duration for both pre- and post-trigger data.

Offers separate scan rates for both pre- and post-trigger data.Select the trigger mode you need: immediate, manual, multichannel, digital pattern, or pulse.

Scope Mode allows you to display any eight of the WaveBooks’ channels 56

Logger Mode. For applications where PC RAM is insufficient to record the entire test or where rapid back-to-back recordings need to be saved to disk, WaveView provides a Logger Mode. It complements WaveView’s Scope Mode by allowing continuous* recording data directly to disk.

Logger Mode can auto-increment file names to provide the unat-tended capture of millions of back-to-back events, without user intervention. Acquired data can be stored in several data formats for direct import to packages such as Excel ? or PostView.

PostView

PostView is a time-domain post-acquisition data viewing pack-age which is integrated and ready to use from within your View package when you install it. PostView provides easy to use basic time-domain data viewing for IOtech data acquisi-tion Out-of-the-Box View packages.

WaveCal

The WaveBook is also shipped with WaveCal, an application that

f acilitates periodic calibration of the system. Although all WaveBook components are factory-calibrated to their rated accuracies prior to shipment, annual recalibration is recommended. WaveCal’s simple on-screen instructions and direct access to the WaveBook’s

c omponents, make recalibration fast an

d easy.

Allows the collection of single-shot or auto-increment file

names for back-to-back acquisitions.

File name, path, and auto-increment index can be entered

by simply filling in the blank.

Auto increment creates multiple data files, one per trigger.Choose from an ever-growing list of data file formats for

easy importing into other software packages such as DADiSP ,

DASYLab, MATLAB, Snap-Master, ASCII/Excel Universal File Format (UFF) 58A (ASCII), Universal File Format (UFF) 58B (Binary), and .WAV .

WaveView’s Logger Mode can stream data direct to disk in a variety of formats

PostView, a Windows ?-based, post-acquisition waveform viewing application

* For acquisitions in excess of 100 million scans, use DASYLab ? or other available software