- VIZ
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Install VIZ on your PC by unpacking the installation download immediately below (that's often automatic) and double-clicking on setup.exe then doing the usual installation process. As far as I can tell it works on all normal XP, Vista, and W7 computers. Then run VIZ (the installation should put a link pretty high up in your start menu, apologies if that's intrusive, or you can go to your Programs directory and click on visualize.exe itself). VIZ will start by asking you for a file, you should browse to one of the .diel files you download from this page. Then pick something to plot from the pulldown, click plot and you should be in business. VIZ is hopefully self-explanatory and there is no way to do damage so the easiest thing to do is to play with the buttons. VIZ never alters the original .diel file (or anything else on your computer) and it only saves output files one at a time using an ordinary file browse dialog, so you can't even write a bunch of files by mistake.*
VIZ Version 3.0 June 24, 2010 (4 MB) This version adds support for data from sweep devices. It will also process a double-click on a .diel file, although you have to tell Windows to use it by:
right click on .diel file => Open With => Choose Program => Browse to VIZ in the GADD folder in your Programs folder, generally click "Always use this program"
VIZ Version 2.2 April 27, 2010 (4 MB) This version adds some data manipulation (constants and filtering), a new view (real part vs. imaginary part, Cole-Cole plots), and changes the way output data arrays are saved. Output arrays of data are now appended to a file which you pick, generally speaking, once but which you can add to as many times as you would like. This lets you save the data in the form of text arrays with whatever organizational plan you like.
VIZ Version 2.1 Nov 21, 2009 (4 MB)
- Examples
- All 5 examples (+1) in a zip file
This is a zip file of the examples described in the Examples section.
- Utilities
- ListInterfaces Version 1.1
This is a console-type utility that will find the USB devices that GADD knows how to use and display for you their names, serial numbers, and port assignments. It can be useful when setting up a system.
- Dwyer Lovelink
This is a program from Dwyer Instrument Company that can help check and set up a Love Controller.
- Drivers
- FTDI drivers
This is the driver for the Prologix GPIB interface and the USB-RS485 Converters from the
FTDI
download page
- GADD
- GADD Version 3.1, August 23, 2010 This version can be installed on a computer which does not have NI's DAQmx or IEEE488.2 installed when the Prologix USB-GPIB converter is used and no DAQmx devices are needed.
- GADD Version 3.01, July 24, 2010 Adds support for HP4192 LCR meter and H1000 Temperature Controller. Adds 4 Counter variables. Fixes some communication bugs.
- GADD Version 3.0, June 24, 2010 Takes data from sweep devices, shows front panel progress bars, other refinements.
- GADD Version 2.3, April 29, 2010 Allows changes in the system set-up from a script.
- GADD Version 2.2, Dec 16, 2009 Includes DMM temperature measurements, 3D flying plots.
- GADD Version 2.1
- Scripting Tutorial
- A tutorial (pdf format) for writing GADD scripts.
- Setup Instructions
- A description (pdf format) of what you need to do to set up your system.
- Sample Setup Folder
- Setup Folder All GADD installations need a setup folder in the GADD folder in the Windows Programs folder which tells the program about the equipment and default settings it should use. This folder is not installed automatically. This link is to a zipped copy of an example setup folder.
External links up to date as of Nov 21, 2009
*Not a legal declaration, this is just a statement of how I wrote it and my experience about how it behaves.