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Windmill COMIML

COMIML lets you read and con trol al most anyse rial de vice com mu ni cat ing over RS232,RS422, RS485 or Modbus. These in clude such

di verse equip ment as elec tronic balances used in alab o ra tory, GPS re ceiv ers used in the field and datalog gers used in pro cess plant.

The COMIML driver reads data from your PC'sCOM port, and passes it to the Wind mill log ging,chart ing and DDE panel pro grams. You can also useother Win dows soft ware, like Ex cel, to dis play andana lyse the data.

Try Before You BuyYou en ter and save all your se rial com mu ni ca tionsset tings with a stand-alone pro gram calledcomDebug. To en able you to test whether Wind millCOMIML will work with your de vice, you candown load a free copy of comDebug from our website! See http://www.windmillsoft.com/comiml.html

Majority of Serial Devices SupportedCOMIML can con trol both those de vices that con tin -u ously out put data val ues as though to a printer, andthose that re quire a com mand mes sage each time data val ues are needed. It can un der stand both ASCII andbi nary mes sages, and in sert cy clic re dun dancychecks. With a flex i ble ap proach to build ing com -mand strings, and pars ing the re ceived data strings toex tract read ings, the ma jor ity of in stru ments are sup -ported. These in clude so nar, gas analysers, pH transmitters, titrators, par ti cle analysers and conductivity me ters.

Optional ExtrasYou can ex pand your sys tem by choos ing any of theop tional Wind mill soft ware mod ules, in clud ing:Graph ics for pro cess mim ics; Alarm Log ger for alerts by tele phone; Windmill Re mote for data ac qui si tionover the in ternet and IML Tools for pro gram mingyour own Visual Ba sic ap pli ca tions. You can also integrate other types of hard ware into your sys temus ing the Wind mill driv ers for Ether net, GPIB, USBand ISA-bus de vices.

PriceThe COMIML driver, with Wind mill 5, costs £145 (around US$210 or €230). You can buy COMIMLfrom our on-line shop, sav ing ship ping costs. Visit http://www.windmillsoft.com/

Fea tures

• Try be fore you buy—con firm Wind mill canread your equip ment be fore pur chas ing

• In cludes the Wind mill 5 log ging, chart ing, DDE panel, out put con trol and ter mi nal em u la tor

ap pli ca tions

• Route data to Ex cel, Ac cess and most other

Windows soft ware

• No pro gram ming re quired

• In te grate sev eral de vices into one sys tem

• Send com mands to the de vice and ex tractdata from its re plies.

• For equip ment com mu ni cat ing over RS232,RS422, RS485 and Modbus

• No more typ ing data into spread sheets—savetime and elim i nate er rors

• For Win dows 95 and later

• Easy-to-use

• Free tech ni cal sup port for life

Simply select your settings or type your instrument'scommands: no need for any programming.

Wind mill Soft ware, PO Box 58, North Dis trict Of fice, Man ches ter, M8 8QR, UKTel: +44 (0)161 833 2782 Fax: +44 (0)161 833 2190 sales@wind mill.co.uk www.wind mill.co.uk

Op er ating Sys tem:Windows 95 or later (including Windows NT,Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows ME)

Min i mum Sys tem Re quire ments:486 processor, 8 MB RAM, VGA Graphics

Com mu ni ca tions sup ported:RS232, RS422, RS485, Modbus(RS422 & RS485 require COM port adapters)

Max i mum nummber of de vices han dled at one time by COMIML:

10

Data for mat:ASCII valuesTwos complement integer LSB-MSB (–32768 to +32767)Twos complement integer MSB-LSBWord LSB-MSB (0 to 65535)Word MSB-LSBSigned byteByteSingle bitFloating point

COM port lines:View state of CTS, DCD, DSR, RI, RTS and DTRControl state of RTS and DTR

Mes sage for mats:ASCII, Binary, Hexadecimal

COM port ad dresses: COM1 to COM24

Baud rates:1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400

Par ity: None, even, odd, mark, space

Data bits:7 or 8

Stop bits:1 or 2

Flow con trol:None, hardware, Xon/Xoff (software)

Parsing:Search for characters and ignore characters beforeextracting data

Col lecting data:Time stamp all readingsSet alarmsLog continuously or start a new file each hour, day orweekAcquire data with Excel or other Windows program inreal-timeChart data in real-timeControl digital or analogue outputs

Ex pan sion ca pa bil i ties:Hardware Drivers: add USB, Ethernet, GPIB andISA-bus device driversOptional Software Modules:Windmill Graphics for process mimicsWindmill Alarm Logger for remote alarm alertingWindmill IML Tools to speed up your own programming with Visual Basic or JavascriptWindmill Remote for monitoring over the internetWindmill Replay for replaying logged data graphicallyWindmill Test Sequence to interpret a file of commands and control a test rig accordinglyWindmill Test-Seq for incinerators for emissionmonitoring

Log and chart data with the Windmill COMIML package

Wind mill COMIML Spec i fi ca tions

Wind mill Soft ware, PO Box 58, North Dis trict Of fice, Man ches ter, M8 8QR, UKTel: +44 (0)161 833 2782 Fax: +44 (0)161 833 2190 sales@wind mill.co.uk www.wind mill.co.uk