Newport SMC100CC Manual page 8

SMC100CC & SMC100PP
EDH0209En2020 – 04/13
Single-Axis Motion Controller/Driver for DC or Stepper Motor
This directory contains documentation, menu to access the different VIs and controls
defined to use the SMC100, and the different libraries where the VIs are stored:
Serial Communication:
read on the serial port.
SMC Configuration: VIs to change configuration parameters (those used for setup
after reset or end of configuration mode).
Motion Setup: VIs to change working parameters (those lost when switching
off the controller).
Motion: VIs to move or stop the positioner.
GPIO: VIs to use GPIO.
General: General VIs.
You must have the SMC100 Controller/Drivers controls menu on the front panel
window (see view opposite).
When you activate the Help window, you will see the description of each of the VIs.
Click on a menu then select a VI. Place it and connect it.
The green color indicates a control and the yellow color indicates an indicator.
You must place the Close control VI at the end of the application to close the
communication. This VI is in the Serial Communication menu.
In each VI, there is an indicator of error and a timeout flag to indicate an error of
communication or execution of VI.
The error in and error out gives the following information: status, code and source. The
explanation of the information is the same for all VIs.
error The error in is a cluster that describes the error status before the
VI executes. If error in indicates that an error occurred before
the VI was called, the VI may choose not to execute its
function, but just pass the error through to its error out clus- ter.
If no error has occurred, then the VI executes normally and sets
its own error status in error out. Use the error han- dler VIs to
look up the error code and to display the corre- sponding error
message. Using error in and error out clusters is a convenient
way to check errors and to specify execution order by wiring
the error output from one sub-VI to the error input of the next.
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VIs to open and close the communication and to write and