MCC Capture Card Experiment

TLA developed DAQWare for MCC based on theMCC USB-230Series of data acquisition cards, deployed with enhanced experimental instrumentation functions, are able to cover the desktop application of the laboratory for the main engineering education engineering courses. It provides dual-channel oscilloscopes, dual-channel function oscilloscopes, dual-channel programmable DC voltage regulators and voltmeters required for experimental teaching. In addition, it fully supports the series of course lab kits released by TLA. DAQWare for MCC provides support for specific experimental projects required by the complete TLA series of course lab kits.

The MCC USB230 series of multifunction data acquisition cards, manufactured by Measurement Computing Corporation (theMCC). MCC was acquired by National Instruments (NI) in 2005 and is now incorporated into theDigilenetSales Channel.

MCC USB230The series of multi-function data acquisition cards include USB-231 and USB-234 models. It provides 8 single-ended/4 differential analog input channels of 16-bit ADC (sampling rate: 50kS/s or 100kS/s), 2 synchronous analog output channels of 16-bit DAC (sampling rate 5kS/s), 8 digital I/O and 1 counter input.

TLA-001C Circuit Principles Course Experiment Kit Experimental Items

serial number	Experimental Projects	USB-231\USB-234
1	Mapping the volt-ampere characteristics of circuit components	√
2	Verification of Kirchhoff's law	√
3	Verification of the superposition principle	√
4	Verification of Davignan's and Norton's theorems	√
5	Experimental study of controlled sources VCVS, VCCS, CCVS, CCCS*	√
6	Response testing of RC first order circuits	√
7	A study of second-order dynamic circuit response	√
8	Study of series resonant circuits of R, L, and C	√
9	RC frequency selective network characterization	√
10	Measurement of impedance characteristics of R, L and C components	√

TLA-002C Analog Circuit Course Experiment Kit Experimental Items

serial number	Experimental Projects	USB-231\USB-234
1	Transistor Single-Stage Amplifier Circuit	√
2	Transistor two-stage amplifier circuit	√
3	Transistor Negative Feedback Amplifier Circuit	√
4	Transistor emitter follower	√
5	Transistor Differential Amplifier Circuit	√
6	Operational Amplifier Proportional Summing Operational Circuit	√
7	Integral and Differential Circuits	√
8	Waveform generation circuit	√
9	active filter	√
10	voltage comparator	√
11	IC RC Sine Wave Oscillator	√
12	Integrated Voltage Regulator Experiment	√
13	Waveform converter circuit	√
14	Field Effect Transistor Amplifier Circuit	√

TLA-003C Digital Circuit Course Experiment Kit Experimental Items

serial number	Experimental Projects	USB-231\USB-234
1	Gate Logic Functions and Tests	√
2	Combinatorial logic circuits Ⅰ (half adder, full adder)	√
3	Combination Circuit II (Decoder and Data Selector)	√
4	flip-flop (electronics)	√
5	Timing circuits (counters, shift registers)	√
6	Design and logic function verification of combinational logic circuits	√
7	D/A, A/D converter	√
8	Application of 555 time base circuits	√
9	Integrated Circuits Multiple Counters Combined Application	√

TLA-004C Sensor Principle Course Experiment Kit Experimental Items

serial number	Experimental Projects	USB-231\USB-234
1	Photoresistor Characterization Experiment	√
2	Silicon photovoltaic cell characterization experiment	√
3	Photodiode Characterization Experiment	√
4	Phototransistor Characterization Experiment	√
5	PIN diode characterization experiment*	√
6	Experiments on the Characterization of Pyroelectric Infrared Sensors	√
7	DC motor speed measurement experiment based on slot photocoupler	√
8	Hall IC-based DC motor speed measurement and speed control experiment	√
9	Thermistor temperature measurement experiment	√
10	LM35 temperature measurement experiment	√
11	Thermocouple temperature measurement experiment	√
12	Relative Humidity Measurement Experiment	√
13	AD592 temperature measurement experiment	√
14	Experiments on the Characterization of Metal Foil Strain Gauges	√
15	Electret microphone audio measurement experiment	√

TLA-007C Principles of Automatic Control Course Experiment Kit Experimental Items

serial number	Experimental Projects	USB-231\USB-234
1	Typical link circuit simulation experiment	√
2	Dynamic performance and stability analysis of typical systems	√
3	Typical Link Frequency Characteristics Measurements	√
4	Linear system series correction	√
5	Static characteristics of a typical nonlinear link	√
6	Phase plane method for analyzing nonlinear systems	√
7	Functional description of nonlinear systems	√
8	Arbitrary configuration of control system poles	√
9	Sampling system analysis	√
10	Analog PID control experiment	√
11	DC motor speed measurement and PID control experiment	√

DAQWare for MCC is deployed based on the MCC InstaCal driver tool and the LabVIEW 2015 development environment. Please read the following instructions carefully before use.

1. Download DAQWare for MCC toolkit and unzip it to get two folders, MCC_InstaCal and Ware for MCC install, which correspond to MCC InstaCal driver and SDK and DAQWare for MCC installation files respectively.

2. Run MCC_InstaCal.exe to start installing MCC_InstaCal driver and SDK.

3. Run setup.exe in the DAQWare for MCC Install folder to install DAQWare for MCC.

4. After completing the installation, connect the MCC USB-231 to the computer where the above software is installed via USB, and correctly install the TLA-001C Principles of Circuits Course Lab Kit, TLA-002C Analog Circuits Course Lab Kit, TLA-003C Digital Circuits Course Lab Kit, TLA-004C Sensors Course Lab Kit, or TLA-007C Automated Controls Course Lab Kit. Principles of Circuits course lab kit.

5. Before running DAQWare for MCC, you need to run InstaCal. select the connected USB DAQ device and configure the input channel to differential mode, confirm.

6. Find the DAQWare for MCC shortcut in the Windows Start directory and run it.

7, the program will run after the interface shown in Figure 1.

In the lab desktop application environment, students can conduct experiments using DAQWare for MCC. As in Figure 4, it is also possible to participate in sensor experiments based on the ULx API as well as the LabVIEW programming environment throughout.

DAQWare for MCC Instll (with ICalUL 6.7.4)