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News Release from: Microstar Laboratories | Subject: DAP boards for Windows Vista
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 05 February 2007
DAP boards move seamlessly to new Vista
Microstar Laboratories ensures that applications using its Data Acquisition Processor boards will work under Windows Vista
Microstar Laboratories has ensured that any users of its Data Acquisition Processor boards in Windows XP systems will be able to migrate their applications to Windows Vista without any changes to the parts of the application that interface with the data acquisition hardware and related software Microstar Laboratories has updated, tested, and prepared for immediate shipment (as new versions)- all the products needed to achieve this
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Engineers at the company have been working with successive beta versions of software provided to them by Microsoft over the last several months, and have now completed testing for all products with the final beta release of Windows Vista.
Every DAP board includes onboard intelligence: a processor running a real-time operating system.
DAP boards can communicate among themselves independently of Windows to synchronise their clocks with one another.
They then all work together as a synchronised data acquisition system not only within a single PC but also across a network.
Windows applications control the real-time operating system on each DAP board.
The updated products let existing Windows applications interface with DAP boards to control the real-time operating system in exactly the same way, whether the applications are running under Windows XP or under Windows Vista.
All Windows applications have to be changed to take advantage of some of the improved and new features of Windows Vista.
Microstar Laboratories offers a Windows application, DAPstudio, that lets users configure and run any number of DAP boards in a system from any PC on a network.
In practice, a wide range of applications can run under DAPstudio and need no software other than that provided by Microstar Laboratories.
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