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Diamond Systems has prepared a number of example programs to demonstrate the use of our products and software. These examples are all available from our website as well as the product CD-ROM which is delivered with most product shipments.
Each board has its own set of example programs packaged as a zip file in the Demos folder of the product CD-ROM. These are also available on our website in the software section. These demos come with source code and build files for each supported operating system. Executable versionf of the demos are included for DOS as well. The demo programs are organized by the Universal Driver function they demostrate. You can run the program to see how the feature works, and then copy and paste the code into your own projects as as start to your own programming.
A project file for each demo is included for Borland C++ 5.0. You can launch this program file to compile the demo using Borland. The demos are already compiled for DOS so you don't need to do this unless you'd like to make changes to the demo program. You must install the Universal Driver on your system before compiling the demo programs.
Project files for Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 and Visual Embedded C++ 4.0 are included for each demo program. You can just click the project to launch Visual C++ and then build the demo to see it run. You must install the Universal Driver before compiling. The driver DLL and library file must be in your include path.
A Makefile is included at the root of each demo package which can be used to compile all the demos for either Linux or QNX. Just type "make" at the base directory of the demos where you see the Makefile and it will compile all the demos for that board. You must have installed the Universal Driver before compiling. The driver must be installed at /usr/local/dscud5 on Linux, or /opt/dscud5 on QNX for the Makefile to find the files it requires.
Utility programs with source code are available for checking or diagnosing various features on some boards.
We also have written example source code which demonstrates how to program Diamond Systems without using the Universal Driver. This is for customers who are using an operating system which is not supported, or for whatever reason are writing their own low level driver software instead of using the Universal Driver. These example programs use simple inp() and outp() type direct I/O calls to program the boards. To make use of the source code you'll need to port them to your own platform and find the local eqivalent of those functions before compiling.
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