WaveView

Out-of-the-Box Software
WaveView

WaveView’s intuitive approach to hardware control simplifies
system setup by automatically querying the WaveBook uponconnection to your PC. As WBK options are added for signal
conditioning or increased system channel count, WaveView’schannel configuration spreadsheet automatically expands toaccommodate the additional channels. Specific channel characteristics, such as gain, unipolar/bipolar, and channel labels, areautomatically updated, and any additional functionality (suchas 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 andanalysis packages. WaveView provides data in formats ­compatible
with a variety of sophisticated display and analysis ­packages,
including MATLAB®.

WaveView* is a Windows-based setup and acquisition applicationthat allows you to configure, display, and save data to disk withinminutes of taking the WaveBook Out-of-the-Box. WaveView provides
a point-and-click interface that simplifies operation of the WaveBookby 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-featuredacquisition and display engine that provides all the functionality needed for many data-logging and display applications. For
more ­frequency-domain analysis applications, use DASYLab®.

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Note: The WBK40 and WBK41 are notcurrently supported in WaveView. We
recommend using DASYLab® whenusing these modules, which includes
full support for the WBK40/41.  TheWBK40/41 are also supported inLabVIEW®, and DaqCOM. If it isnecessary to use these modules in
conjunction with a WaveView application, then it is necessary to launcha second, concurrent application toacquire data from the WBK40/41 into
­separate data files.

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

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Designate an individual data channel as active or inactiveby clicking on a select channel.

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Reading column provides quick indication of sensor condition before acquisition begins.

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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.

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Assign each channel a unique label, which will be automatically referenced throughout WaveView. Choose thedesired engineering units in which to display acquired
data, based on the installed WBK options. Parameters canalso 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.

Enhanced features such as filter type, cutoff frequency,  
IEPE current source, and bridge configuration automaticallyappear 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, andtrigger criteria.

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Scope Mode allows customizing and displaying of multipletraces; it supports cursors, re-scaling, and more.

9Store data to disk in real-time; the auto re-arm function, withautomatic file naming, supports back-to-back acquisitionof over one million captures without user intervention.
Review acquired waveforms with a strip chart style display

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11 Strain gage setup to calibrate WBK16 strain gage channels.

* Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7/Vista/XP SP2, 32-bit or 64-bit

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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 singlechannel, manual, and external TTL, advanced triggering for
multichannel, digital pattern, and pulse trigger is also available.
When using multichannel trigger all channels can be combinedwith 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 associateanalog data with digital sequences.

Scope Mode. Unlike a traditional scope with only two to fourchannels, WaveView’s Scope Mode allows any eight channels
to be displayed. Furthermore, WaveView is not handicappedby the small memory limitations of DSOs. In fact, WaveView
dynamically and transparently allocates a PC’s RAM prior tobeginning 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 pointand-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®.

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 ofthe signal and pulse width criteria. Now “runt” pulses or glitchesburied in apparently good signals can be easily captured.

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

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

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Allows selection of internal or external clock.

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

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Offers separate scan rates for both pre- and post-trigger data.

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Select the trigger mode you need: immediate, manual,multichannel, digital pattern, or pulse.

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Supports continuous or single-shot capture and display
modes.

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Provides zoom-in and zoom-out window control of thex-axis.

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Displays user label and cursor data values.

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Scroll through all data.

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

6Automatically scales axis in user-defined engineering units.

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Enables cursor for on-screen measurements.

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PostView

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.

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

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

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

WaveCalThe WaveBook is also shipped with WaveCal, an application thatf­ acilitates periodic calibration of the system. Although all WaveBookcomponents 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’s­components, make recalibration fast and easy.

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

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Allows the collection of single-shot or auto-increment filenames for back-to-back acquisitions.

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File name, path, and auto-increment index can be enteredby simply filling in the blank.

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

4 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.

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

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