ADLINK Technology 6216-GL Series User manual

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6208/6216-GL Series
Multi-channel Analog Output Cards
User’s Manual

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Revision History
Revision Release Date Description of Change(s)
1.00 N/A Document created  (Legacy documentation revised/converted to
new system)
3.22 2003/05/07
Document created (legacy documentation
revised/converted to new system)
Specification Revision
Initial Release
4.00 2007/12/27
Major revision of document flow and placement
of content. 
Renaming of PCI-6208V & PCI-6216V to PCI-
6208V-GL & PCI-6216V-GL respectively
Re-release
4.01 2008/4/8 Updated for CompactPCI versions
4.02 2008/5/28 Updated board diagrams
4.03 2009/7/8 Added PCI Express boards

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Preface
Copyright 2009 ADLINK TECHNOLOGY INC.
This document contains proprietary information protected by copy-
right. All rights are reserved. No part of this manual may be repro-
duced by any mechanical, electronic, or other means in any form
without prior written permission of the manufacturer.
Disclaimer
The information in this document is subject to change without prior
notice in order to improve reliability, design, and function and does
not represent a commitment on the part of the manufacturer.
In no event will the manufacturer be liable for direct, indirect,
special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the
use or inability to use the product or documentation, even if
advised of the possibility of such damages.
Trademarks
Borland® C/C++ and Delphi® are registered trademarks of the
Borland Software Corporation. Intel® is a registered trademark of
Intel Corporation. LabVIEW™ is a trademark of National
Instruments Corporation. Linux® and the Linux® Logo are
registered trademarks of Linus Torvalds. MATLAB® and the
MATLAB Logo are registered trademarks of The MathWorks, Inc.
Microsoft®, MS-DOS®, Windows® 95, Windows® 98, Windows
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Windows Vista®, ActiveX®, Visual Studio®, Visual Basic®, Visual
C#®, and Visual C++® are registered trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation. PCI™, CompactPCI®, and PCI Express®, are
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systems Alliance. VEE™ is a trademark of Agilent.
Product names mentioned herein are used for identification
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trademarks of their respective companies.

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Using this Manual
Audience and Scope
The PCI-6208/6216-GL Series User’s Manual is intended for
hardware technicians and systems operators with knowledge of
installing, configuring and operating PCI analog output cards.
Manual Organization
This manual is organized as follows:
Preface: presents important copyright notifications,
disclaimers, trademarks, and associated information on the
proper understanding and usage of this document and its
associated product(s).
Chapter 1, Introduction: gives an overview of 6208/6216-GL
Series features, applications, specifications and supporting
software environments for use with the product. The layout of
the 6208/6216-GL Series as well as its connectors and
termination boards are presented.
Chapter 2, Getting Started: describes how to install and
configure the 6208/6216-GL Series.
Chapter 3, Supporting Software & Libraries: presents DOS
and Windows 95 software libraries for programming 6208/
6216-GL Series cards. This information is especially useful for
programmers using high-level programming languages.
Chapter 4, Hardware Registers: provides detailed descriptions of the
6208/6216-GL Series registers, I/O address map and Voltage Output
conversion information. This information is especially useful for
programmers who want to control the hardware with low-level
programming.
Chapter 5, Utilities & Calibration: describes how to run the
6208/6216-GL Series utility program included in the software
CD. Also describes how to calibrate 6208/6216-GL Series
cards for accurate measurements and operations.

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Important Safety Instructions: Presents safety instructions
all users must follow for the proper setup, installation and
usage of equipment and/or software.
Warranty Information: Presents important warranty
information for users/manufacturers rights and responsibilities
regarding ADLINK products and services.
Conventions
Take note of the following conventions used throughout this
manual to make sure that users perform certain tasks and
instructions properly.
NOTE:
NOTE:
Additional information, aids, and tips that help users per-
form tasks.
CAUTION:
Information to prevent minor physical injury, component
damage, data loss, and/or program corruption when try-
ing to complete a task.
WARNING:
Information to prevent serious physical injury, compo-
nent damage, data loss, and/or program corruption
when trying to complete a specific task.

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Acronyms & Terminology
The following terms are used throughout this document. This list is
prepared in alphabetical order for clarity.
µsec./µs - microsecond
A/mA - (Ampere/amp/milliampere) a unit of electric current, or
amount of electric charge per second
ADE - Application Development Environment
API - Application Programming Interface
ATE - Automatic Test Equipment
BIOS - Basic Input/Output System
bit - Binary digit, the basic unit of information storage in computing
CD/CD-ROM - Compact Disk/Compact Disk Read Only Memory
ch/CH/Chn - Channel
DA - Digital-to-Analog Conversion
DAQ - Data Acquisition
DC - Continuous Current
DI - Digital Input
DLL (.dll) - Dynamic-link libraries, a library subroutine file type and
common filename extension in Microsoft Windows.
DMA - Direct Memory Access
DMM - digital-multi-meters, an electronic measuring instrument
that combines several functions in one unit
DO - Digital Output
driver - A software component used to interact with hardware
devices
EXE (.exe) - A filename extension for executable files/programs
FAE - Field Application Engineer
HMI - Human-Machine Interface
I/O(IO) - Input / Output
IC - integrated circuit, a miniaturized electronic circuit

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IRQ/SERIRQ - Interrupt Request / Serial Interrupt Request
LabVIEW™ - Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Engineering
Workbench, a visual programming language for platforms and
development environments
LCR - Local Configuration Registers
LSB - Least Significant Byte
MATLAB® - Matrix Laboratory, a numerical computing environ-
ment and programming language
MHz - Megahertz (one million hertz)
mm - millimeter
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
OS - Operating System
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PCI Express (PCIe or PCI-E) - An I/O interconnect bus standard
that expands on and doubles the data transfer rates of original PCI
PCR - PCI Configuration Registers
PnP - Plug and Play
PXI - PCI eXtensions for Instrumentation, a modular instrumenta-
tion platforms
SCADA - Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition
TTL - Transistor-Transistor Logic, digital circuits built from bipolar
junction transistors and resistors.
V- Volt, a derived unit of electrical potential difference
VDC - Volts of Continuous Current
VEE™ - Visual Engineering Environment, a visual and dataflow
programming language and development environment
X86 - A generic term that refers to the CISC (complex instruction
set computer) architecture, the most commercially successful cen-
tral processing unit (CPU) architecture in modern computing.

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Reference Documentation
The following list of documents may be used as reference materi-
als to support installation, configuration and/or the operation of
ADLINK PCI-6208/6216-GL Series Multi-channel Analog Output
Cards. This list is prepared in alphabetical order (by vendor name,
then by document title) for clarity.
Vendor(s) Title Rev.
ADLINK Technology, Inc. ADLINK DAQ Software Installation
User’s Manual 2.00
ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQBench ActiveX Controls for Measurement and SCADA/HMI Vista
support 2.43
ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQBench Simplified Chinese: ActiveX®Controls for Measurement
and SCADA/HMI 2.42
ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQBench Traditional Chinese: ActiveX®Controls for Measurement
and SCADA/HMI 2.42
ADLINK Technology, Inc.
DAQ-LVIEW PnP: LabVIEW™
Interface for all ADLINK PCI™/PCI
Express®/cPCI Series Data Acquisition
Cards
1.29
ADLINK Technology, Inc. DAQ-MTLB: MATLAB®Data Acquisition Toolbox Adapter for
ADLINK DAQ Cards 1.10
ADLINK Technology, Inc. PCI-OCX: ActiveX®Controls for ADLINK PCI™/PCI Express®/cPCI
Series Data Acquisition Cards 4.22
ADLINK Technology, Inc. PCIS-DASK: Data Acquisition Software Development Kit for NuDAQ PCI™ bus
cards 2.00
ADLINK Technology, Inc. PCIS-VEE: VEE™ Interface for ADLINK PCI™/cPCI Series Data
Acquisition Cards 3.21
PCI-SIG Conventional PCI 3.0

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Getting Service
Contact us should you require any service or assistance.
ADLINK Technology Inc.
Address: 9F, No.166 Jian Yi Road, Chungho City,
Taipei County 235, Taiwan
؀קᗼխࡉؑ৬ԫሁ 166 ᇆ9ᑔ
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
Ampro ADLINK Technology Inc.
Address: 5215 Hellyer Avenue, #110, San Jose, CA 95138, USA
Tel: [phone]
Toll Free: [phone] (USA only)
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
ADLINK Technology Beijing
Address: ࣫ҀᏖ⍋⎔Ϟഄϰ䏃 1োⲜ߯ࡼ࡯໻ Eᑻ801 ᅸ
(100085)
Rm. 801, Power Creative E, No. 1, B/D
Shang Di East Rd., Beijing 100085, China
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
ADLINK Technology Shanghai
Address: Ϟ⍋Ꮦⓩ⊇⋒催⾥ᡔᓔথ䩺∳䏃 333 ো39 ᐶ4ሖ
(200233)
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
ADLINK Technology Shenzhen
Address: ⏅ഇᏖቅ⾥ᡔು催ᮄϗ䘧᭄ᄫᡔᴃು
A1 󰶀2ὐC(518057)
2F, C Block, Bld. A1, Cyber-Tech Zone,
Gao Xin Ave. Sec 7, High-Tech Industrial Park S.,
Shenzhen, 518054 China
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]

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ADLINK Technology Inc. (German Liaison Office)
Address: Nord Carree 3, 40477 Duesseldorf, Germany
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
ADLINK (French Liaison Office)
Address: 15 rue Emile Baudot, 91300 MASSY Cedex, France
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
ADLINK Technology Japan Corporation
Address: 151-0072 ᧲ㇺ⼱඙ᐈ䊱⼱㩷
1-1-2 ᦺᣣ↢๮ᐈ䊱⼱䊎䊦 8F
Asahiseimei Hatagaya Bldg. 8F
1-1-2 Hatagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0072, Japan
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
ADLINK Technology Inc. (Korean Liaison Office)
Address: 昢殾柢 儛單割 嚂笊壟 60-12 壟昷捒娯 4猻402 笾
No.402, Dongsung B/D, 60-12, Nonhyeon-Dong
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, 135-010, Korea.
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
ADLINK Technology Singapore Pte Ltd.
Address: 84 Genting Lane #07-02A, Cityneon Design Centre,
Singapore 349584
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
ADLINK Technology Singapore Pte Ltd. (Indian Liaison Office)
Address: No. 1357, "Anupama", Sri Aurobindo Marg, 9th Cross,
JP Nagar Phase I, Bangalore - 560078, India
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

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Table of Contents................................................................... xi
List of Figures...................................................................... xiii
List of Tables......................................................................... xv
1 Introduction ........................................................................ 1
1.1 Overview.............................................................................. 1
1.2 Features............................................................................... 2
1.3 Applications ......................................................................... 2
1.4 Specifications....................................................................... 3
1.5 PCI-6208/6216-GL Series Card Layout............................... 5
1.6 6208/6216-GL Series Pin Assignments............................... 7
1.7 Termination Boards and Cables .......................................... 8
2 Getting Started ................................................................... 9
2.1 Installation Environment ...................................................... 9
2.2 Package Contents ............................................................. 10
2.3 Installation.......................................................................... 11
Installing Software ........................................................11
Installing Hardware .......................................................12
2.4 PCI Device Configuration .................................................. 14
3 Supporting Software........................................................ 15
3.1 Supporting Software.......................................................... 15
3.1.1 Windows OS Support & Drivers..........................................16
DAQPilot .......................................................................16
DAQMaster ...................................................................17
3.1.2 PCIS-DASK (Legacy Drivers & Support)............................18
3.1.3 Linux OS Support & Drivers................................................19
3.1.4 Third-party Software Support..............................................20

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MATLAB® Data Acquisition Toolbox Adapter ..............20
LabVIEW™ Data Acquisition VI Set .............................21
VEE™ Interface for ADLINK DAQ Cards .....................22
ActiveX Controls for ADLINK DAQ Cards .....................23
4 Hardware Registers.......................................................... 25
4.1 PCI PnP Registers............................................................. 25
4.2 Analog Output Control Register......................................... 26
4.3 Analog Output Status Register .......................................... 27
4.4 Digital Output Register....................................................... 27
4.5 Digital Input Register.......................................................... 28
4.6 Voltage Output DA Conversion.......................................... 29
5 Utilities & Calibration........................................................ 31
5.1 Running the Utility.............................................................. 32
5.1.1 Function Testing .................................................................33
5.1.2 Calibration...........................................................................34
Important Safety Instructions............................................... 35

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List of Figures
Figure 1-1: PCI-6208V-GL/6216V-GL Rev. C2 Layout......................5
Figure 1-2: PCIe-6208V/6216V-GL Layout........................................5
Figure 1-3: cPCI-6208V-GL and cPCI-6216V-GL Layou...................6
Figure 1-4: cPCI-6208V/R-GL and cPCI-6216V/R-GL Layout...........6
Figure 1-5: 6208V-GL CN1 Connector Pin Assignments...................7
Figure 1-6: 6216V-GL CN1 Connector Pin Assignments...................7
Figure 3-1: ADLINK Software Support Overview.............................15
Figure 3-2: DAQPilot Main Screen...................................................16
Figure 3-3: DAQMaster Device Manager Screen Shot....................17
Figure 3-4: PCIS-DASK Legacy Software Support Overview..........18
Figure 3-5: LabVIEW™ Screen Shot...............................................21
Figure 3-6: VEE™ Screen Shot.......................................................22
Figure 3-7: ActiveX Screen Shot......................................................23
Figure 5-1: 6208/6216-GL Utility Main Menu...................................32
Figure 5-2: PCI-6208/6216-GL Function Test Menu........................33
Figure 5-3: PCI-6208/6216-GL Function Test Screen Shot.............33

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Table 4-1: 6208/6216-GL Series I/O Address Map.........................26
Table 4-2: Analog Output Status Register......................................27
Table 4-3: Digital Output Register...................................................27
Table 4-4: Digital Input Register ..................................................... 28
Table 4-5: Voltage DA Conversion Table .......................................29

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1 Introduction
1.1 Overview
ADLINK 6208/6216-GL Series are 8-ch or 16-ch, 16-bit analog
output cards. They each offer ±10 V output ranges and 25 V/µs
slew rates. Each channel is equipped with a dedicated digital to
analog converter, and the output value of each channel can be
updated individually. These devices provide high resolution, high
density analog output functionalities and are suitable for automa-
tion test equipment, signal generation, industrial process control,
servo control, and several other industrial control applications.
The specific models described in this manual are the PCI/PCIe/
cPCI-6208V-GL and PCI/PCIe/cPCI-6216V-GL which are direct
replacements of the previously released PCI-6208V and PCI-
6216V cards (register map, hardware, and software are all fully
compatible). Likewise, the cPCI-6208V-GL, cPCI-6216V-GL,
cPCI-6208V/R-GL and cPCI-6216V/R-GL are also direct replace-
ments of the previously released cPCI-6208V, cPCI-6216V, cPCI-
6208V/R and cPCI-6216V/R cards, respectively.

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1.2 Features
PCI-6208V-GL and PCI-6216V-GL are fully compatible with
PCI-6208V and PCI-6216V, respectively.
cPCI-6208V-GL, cPCI-6216V-GL, cPCI-6208V/R-GL and
cPCI-6216V/R-GL are fully compatible with cPCI-6208V,
cPCI-6216V, cPCI-6208VR and cPCI-6216VR, respectively.
Supports a 32-bit 3.3 V or 5 V PCI bus, Plug and Play (PCI-
6208V/6216V-GL)
x1 lane PCI Express interface (PCIe-6208V/6216V-GL)
3U Eurocard form factor, CompactPCI compliant PICMG
2.9 R2.1 (cPCI-6208V/6216V-GL)
16-bit high resolution voltage outputs
Output Range: ±10V (15-bit resolution guarantee)
Differential Linearity Error: ±1.5 LSB typical
4-CH TTL digital inputs and 4-CH TTL digital outputs
Rear I/O available on the cPCI-6208VR6216VR-GL
1.3 Applications
Industrial Process Control
Servo control
Reference voltage generator

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1.4 Specifications
Voltage Output:
Channels:
8 channels for the 6208V-GL
16 channels for the 6216V-GL
Resolution: 16-bit (15-bit guaranteed)
Voltage output range: ±10 V
Voltage output driving capability: ±5 mA max.
Settling time: 130 µs (-10 V to +10 V)
Slew rate: 25 V/µs
Gain error: 0.0025% Full Scale Range (at 25°C)
Offset error: 0.0005% Full Scale Range (at 25°C)
Differential Nonlinearity Error: ±1.5 LSB typical
Integral Nonlinearity Error: ±2.5 LSB
Output initial status: 0 V (after RESET or POWER-ON)
Data Transfer: Programmed I/O
Digital I/O
Channel: Four TTL compatible inputs and outputs
Input Voltage:
Low: Min. 0 V, Max. +0.8 V
High: Min. +2.0 V, Max. +5.5 V
Input Load:
Low: +0.8 V at -0.2 mA max.
High: +2.7 V at +20 mA max.
Output Voltage:
Low: Min. 0 V, Max. +0.4 V
High: Min. +2.4 V, Max. +5.5 V
Driving Capacity:
Low: Max. +0.5 V at +8.0 mA (Sink)
High: Min. +2.7 V at +0.4 mA (Source)

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General Specifications:
Operating temperature: 0°C to +50°C
Storage temperature: -20°C to +80°C
Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing
Connector: 37-pin D-sub connector (female)
Bus interface: 32-bit slave PCI bus
Power Consumption:
PCI-6208V-GL:
+5 VDC at 580 mA typical
+12 VDC at 70 mA typical
PCI-6216V-GL:
+5 VDC at 1 A typical
+12 VDC at 280 mA typical
cPCI-6208V-GL:
+5 VDC at 500 mA typical
+12 VDC at 200 mA typical
cPCI-6216V-GL:
+5 VDC at 1 A typical
+12 VDC at 300 mA typical
cPCI-6208V/R-GL
+5 VDC at 500 mA typical
+12 VDC at 200 mA typical
cPCI-6216V/R-GL
+5 VDC at 1 A typical
+12 VDC at 300 mA typical
PCB Dimensions:
PCI-6208V/6216V-GL: 175 mm x 105 mm
PCIe-6208V/6216V-GL: 168 mm x 112 mm
cPCI-6208V(R)/6216V(R)-GL: 160 mm x 100 mm