Supported Digital I/O Devices

MERLIC supports the following digital I/O devices:

System Requirements and Limitations

Intel compatible PC with Windows 10 (64-bit) or newer that is also supported by the vendor-specific SDK.
Installed Advantech DAQNavi SDK with version 3.1.6 (or higher).

No support of counters.
No support of pattern matching.
No support of analog functions.
In case of Advantech DAQNavi SDK version 4.0 (or higher), the device settings defined in the Advantech Navigator are not automatically stored and loaded from the registry anymore, but from a configuration file. Since the current interface does not support loading a configuration file, the default settings of the device are used instead. This may be critical for configurable bidirectional devices since the port direction can not be changed.

Intel compatible PC with Windows 10 (64-bit) or newer that is also supported by the vendor-specific SDK.
Installed Contec Runtime with version 4.4. (or higher). The CDIO.dll must be found within your search path.

Intel compatible PC with Windows 10 (64-bit) or newer that is also supported by the vendor-specific SDK.
Installed NI-DAQmx with version 9.7.5 (or higher).
Windows: MVTec I/O device interface "hioNIDAQmx.dll". If you have properly installed MERLIC, all these DLLs should reside in the bin directory of the MERLIC installation, e.g., "%PROGRAMFILES%\MVTec\MERLIC-5.5\bin\x64-win64".

No support of analog channels.
No support of timers.
No support of other NI-DAQmx features.
MERLIC has to be closed before connecting or disconnecting an NI-USB device. Unplugging of an NI-USB device while running MERLIC will crash your application.
For devices where a pin can be used either as a digital output or a digital input channel, the first read or write operation after opening the channel may take substantially longer.