DAQWare Software Overview

DAQWareis a comprehensive experiment software developed by TLA, aiming to provide users with powerful data acquisition and analysis functions. It is widely compatible with multifunctional data acquisition cards from major vendors in the market, including but not limited to Mirvis, Rainbeads, NI (DAQmx), Digilent Waveforms, ADLINK (UD-DASK), JYTEK (UD-DASK), Advantech (XNavi), and MCC (ULx).

Cross-platform & Unified Operating Experience:

One of the core advantages of DAQWare is its full compatibility with virtual instruments or data acquisition card hardware from different manufacturers. Regardless of which brand of data acquisition card the user is using, DAQWare provides a unified operating interface and operating logic. This means that users do not need to learn and adapt to the proprietary software interfaces of different manufacturers, which greatly reduces the difficulty of getting started and improves the efficiency of experiments. This standardized operating experience ensures consistency in teaching and research work, allowing users to focus more on the experimental content itself rather than differences in software operation.
Enhanced application functionality and flexible expansion:
The software integrates a wide range of useful features, making it ideal for engineering education and scientific experimentation. Key features include:

Oscilloscope: Real-time display and analysis of electrical signal waveforms.
Function Signal Generator: Generates a variety of standard function signals for testing and experimentation.
Programmable power supply: precisely control the power output to meet different experimental needs.
Continuous Collector: Supports long, continuous data recording.
Spectrum Analyzer: Analyzes a signal in the frequency domain to reveal the frequency components of the signal.
Dynamic Signal Analyzer: For more complex dynamic signal measurement and analysis.
Data analysis: Provides powerful tools for data processing and analysis.
Data storage: Conveniently save experimental data for subsequent review and analysis.

In addition, DAQWare offers special data acquisition card enhancements that tap into the potential of the hardware to provide users with an experience that goes beyond basic functionality. These enhancements can be optimized for specific hardware features, such as providing more advanced trigger modes, fine control of simultaneous multi-channel acquisition, or sensor-specific data preprocessing modules, greatly expanding the range of applications and experimentation possibilities for data acquisition cards.
DAQWare incorporates lab content from engineering education courses and provides specific lab projects to help students and researchers better understand and master the knowledge.areIt is the experimental measurement software developed by TLA for use as a companion to the TLA series of course lab kits. Functional enhancements have been made to the existing features of the multifunctional data acquisition card. Covers instruments needed for laboratory desktop applications, such as: oscilloscopes, function signal generators, sweep signal generators, programmable power supplies, voltmeters, baud plotters, dynamic signal analyzers, etc.

DAQWare software functions cover TLA-001 Principles of Circuits course lab suite, TLA-002 Analog Circuits course lab suite, TLA-003 Digital Circuits course lab suite, TLA-004 Sensors course lab suite, TLA-005 Signals and Systems course lab suite, and TLA-007 Principles of Automatic Control course, as shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Description of the DAQWare software feature coverage experiment suite

TLA Course Lab Kit Model	DAQWare Experiment Software Adaptation
TLA-001 Circuit Principles Course Lab Kit	√
TLA-002 Analog Circuit Course Experiment Kit	√
TLA-003 Digital Circuit Course Experiment Kit	√
TLA-004 Sensor Course Lab Kit	√
TLA-005 Signal and System Course Lab Kit	√
TLA-007 Principles of Automatic Control Course	√

The TLA series of course experiment kits are suitable for classic course experiment teaching, and also adapt to a variety of classic virtual instrument system vendors, as shown in Table 2.

Table 2 DAQWare Experiment Software Adaptation Data Acquisition Card Vendors

Virtual Instrument Platform Manufacturers, Models	DAQWare Name
NI ELVIS Series (NI ELVIS I/II/II+)	DAQWare for NI DAQmx
NI ELVIS III Series	DAQWare for ELVIS III
NI myDAQ Series	DAQWare for NI DAQmx
NI USB-600x Series	DAQWare for NI DAQmx
NI 6251, 6221 Series	DAQWare for NI DAQmx
Raindrop Technology-Raindrop S Series	DAQWare for rain beads
Digilent Analog Discovery Series (AD1, AD2, AD3, ADS)	DAQWare for Digilent AD
JYTEK USB Series	DAQWare for JY USB-101\USB-61902
MCC USB Series	DAQWare for MCC
Advantech USB47 Series	DAQWare for XNavi

General-purpose function of the data acquisition card generally have analog signal input (Analog Input), analog signal output (Analog Output), GPIO (through the digital signal input and output) and other IO functions, and some also have timer and counter function IO.

Commonly used test and measurement instruments in the laboratory based on the secondary development of the above basic IO functions, can realize the oscilloscope (ADC), function signal generator (DAC), programmable power supply (DAC), baud plotter (DAC + ADC), dynamic signal analyzer (ADC), and other instrument functions.

The DAQWare general experiment software developed by TLA, based on the above ideas, realizes the adaptation of general IO functions to the virtual instrument platforms of major classic data acquisition card manufacturers. It covers the functions of common experimental instruments mentioned above and perfectly supports the application of specific experimental projects of TLA series of course experimental kits. In view of the characteristics of data acquisition cards of different virtual instrument manufacturers, the operation logic of DAQWare software has been optimized in detail to unify the operation logic of each virtual instrument platform manufacturer as much as possible.