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Tue Apr 28 11:44:07 2009, Stefan Ritt, Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board

Wed Apr 29 07:57:33 2009, Stefan Ritt, Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board

Mon Apr 5 17:57:41 2010, Heejong Kim, Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board

Tue Apr 13 14:15:16 2010, Stefan Ritt, Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board

Message ID: 8 Entry time: Wed Apr 29 07:57:33 2009 In reply to: 7

Author:	Stefan Ritt
Subject:	Simple example application to read a DRS evaluation board

Stefan Ritt wrote:

Several people asked for s simple application to guide them in writing their own application to read out a DRS board. Such an application has been added in software revions 2.1.1 and is attached to this message. This example program drs_exam.cpp written in C++ does the following necessary steps to access a DRS board:

Crate a "DRS" object and scan all USB devices
Display found DRS boards
Initialize the first found board and set the sampling frequency to 5 GSPS
Enable internal trigger on channel #1 with 250 mV threshold
Start acquisition and wait for a trigger
Read two waveforms (both time and amplitude)
Repeat this 10 times

I know that we are still missing a good documentation for the DRS API, but I have not yet found the time to do that. I hope the example program is enough for most people to start writing own programs. For Windows users (MS Visual C++ 8.0) there is a drs.sln project file, and for linux users there is a Makefile which can be used to compile this example program.

One note: The program drs_exam.cpp published in the previous message needs the current version of the DRS library in DRS.cpp and DRS.h. They are contained in the software release 2.1.1 which has to be downloaded. For simplicity, I attached the two files to this message.