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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/516E or StrainBook/616 Out-of-the-Box. WaveView provides a point-and-click interface that simplifies operation 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 functionality needed for many data-logging and display applications. For more frequency-domain analysis applications, use eZ-Analyst (WaveBook/516E only) or DASYLab^®.

WaveView’s intuitive approach to hardware control simplifies system setup by automatically querying the WaveBook/516E or StrainBook/616 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 characteristics, 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.

1. Designate an individual data channel as active or inactive by clicking on a select channel.
2. Reading column provides quick indication of sensor condition before acquisition begins.
3. 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.
4. Assign each channel a unique label, which will be automatically 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.
5. Use auto-zero to remove small offsets such as transducer drift or pre-load conditions prior to acquisition.
6. Enhanced features such as filter type, cutoff frequency, IEPE current source, and bridge configuration automatically appear when hardware is added to the WaveBook/516E system. There are no switches to set and WaveView automatically updates itself for new configurations.
7. Click to review system configuration and acquisition parameters such as scan rate, pre- and post-trigger usage, and trigger criteria.
8. Scope Mode allows customizing and displaying of multiple traces; it supports cursors, re-scaling, and more.
9. 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.
10. Review acquired waveforms with a strip chart style display via PostView.
11. Strain gage setup to calibrate WBK16 strain gage channels.

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Tech Tip 40201 - Manual configuration of PC memory allocation in WaveView for high-speed data acquisition applications

High-speed data acquisition systems such as the IOtech WaveBook/516E are capable of streaming extremely large amounts of acquired data into the attached computer system. A typical WaveBook system running at the full 1-MHz sample rate can generate nearly 2 Mbytes of data per second.