Starting Fwsetup; Creating A System Directory - Addi-Data APCI-8001 Commissioning Manual

CM / C M
OMMISSIONING

3.5 Starting FWSETUP

Start the fwsetup.exe application. The following screen output or any identical one should be displayed on the
"Monitor" page:
The header line of the fwsetup application includes information on the number of identified xPCI-800x
controllers and the board type, among other things. The version of the monitor program PMON stored for the
control system, the CPU frequency and the memory status for the control sydem are displayed in the window.
You can reset the xPCI-800x controller by pressing the soft reset button. In this case, the screen output in the
monitor window should be filled in with other screen messages. Environment variables can be set for the
control system for parameterising the specifications of the control system. You will find further information in
section 3.12.

3.6 Creating a system directory

•
Create a file for storing the most important system files.
•
In this folder, generate a system.dat file using one of the 3 methods outlined below:
By creating a new file using the sysgen.exe help program from the Toolset sub-directory of the xPCI-
800x TOOLSET CD or
by copying a file from the firmware and system.dat files sub-directory\{Controller name of the xPCI-
800x TOOLSET CD (Note: Delete read only attribute after the copying process) or
by converting an existing system.dat file using the sysconv.exe help program from the Toolset sub-
directory of the xPCI-800x TOOLSET CD.
•
Likewise, copy the RWMOS.ELF file from the Firmware and system.dat files sub-directory\
{ Controller name } into this newly created system directory.
ANUAL
13