Analog Devices EVAL-ADE9113 User Manual page 12

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Hovering the mouse pointer over buttons displays a description. An
overview follows:
1. Reading and writing as follows:
a. Select the register you want to interact with in the Find
section. The icons next to the register names convey the
access permission: red is write only, blue is read and write,
and green is read only.
b. To read, click the Read button.
c. To write, double-click on the Value field, enter the desired
value, and click the Write button. To see other Write op-
tions, right-click the button.
d. Click the Edit button to access a more visual way of doing
a read or a write. Note that if a value or name is in bold
and/or has an asterisk next to it, it means that it has
been modified in the panel but not written to the device.
All panels are updated whenever a read is executed, but
values in registers may have changed between reads.
2. To select multiple registers together use the standard Ctrl +
Left Click and Shift + Left Click shortcuts while clicking on
the registers to select and display them in the Interact section
together.
3. Bookmarks allow you to group registers together for simple
access and interaction as follows:
To bookmark registers, select them in the Find section, then
►
right-click, and select Add selected bookmarks.
To see all the bookmarked registers together click Book-
►
marks in the Find section.
The currently visible registers can be filtered to show just
►
the bookmarked ones by clicking on the Filter Bookmarks
button in the top-right corner of the Find section.
4. Pinning allows multiple registers to permanently stay in the
Interact section of the window.
a. To pin multiple registers within the same register map,
select the registers as previously explained in Step 2, and
then click the Pin icon.
b. To pin registers from multiple register maps, take the follow-
ing steps:
1. Pin registers from one register map, as described in
Step 4, a.
2. Select registers from another register map. The previ-
ously pinned registers as well as the newly selected
registers are now shown in the Interact section of the
window.
3. Click the Pin icon to unpin all registers.
4. Click the Pin icon again, which now pins all registers
currently in the Interact section of the window.
5. Repeat Step 4b2 through Step 4b4 with as many other
register maps as needed.
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5. Snapshots use the Snapshot UI Manager to save register
values in a file and apply the registers at a later time (see
Figure 16).
a. Save to a file as follows:
1. Select the registers you would like to save.
2. Click Snap to launch the Snapshot UI Manager, and
then click Take Snap.
3. If needed, add comments and rename the file by chang-
ing the Snapshot Name and then clicking Rename
Memory.
4. Click Save to File to save the snapshot as a .snpsht
file in C:\Users\<Your Username>\Documents\Lab-
VIEW Data\cfg\Snapshot Files.
Tip: To take a snapshot of all registers belonging to
all phases, use Shift + Left Click to select all register
maps, and then Shift + Left Click to select all registers.
This process brings all the registers to the Interact
section. Now, follow Step 6a2 through Step 6a4 to take
a snapshot.
b. To write from a file, take the following steps:
1. Click Snap to launch the Snapshot UI Manager.
2. Select the desired snapshot file, and then click Apply.
Figure 16. Snapshot UI Manager
6. Script-based interaction is found in the Scripting section and
allows text-based interaction with the registers via the four tabs
on the right. GUI operations shows the operations performed
by using the Interact buttons. Scratchpad 1 and Scratchpad 2
allow you to modify registers using a script as follows:
a. Enter newline delimited commands in the same format as
the GUI operations window (see
b. Click Run to execute the script.
Other script files can be easily created by selecting the desired
lines and then right click and select Save Selected Script.
This saves the script in C:\Users\<Your Username>\Docu-
ments\LabVIEW Data\scripts. Lastly, the Transaction History
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