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14 Installation

Fig. 16: Installation panels

The installation works the same way as the installation from the CD. Check the boxes of the

software components you want to install (Fig. 16, right). The operating software of the DPC is

‘SPCM’. If you operate the DPC together with the DCC-100 detector controller you need also

‘DCC’. The SPCM and DCC software components are all you need for DPC standard appli-

cations. The components are free and can be installed without any password.

The installation package also contains a FLIM data analysis software, SPCImage, and DLL

libraries for the bh DPC, SPC and DCC modules. These components are not needed for DPC

standard applications. Their installation requires a licence number. You get this number if you

purchase these software components from bh. Please note that the DLL and Lab View librar-

ies are only required if you plan to design your own experiment software. They are not re-

quired to run the SPCM software.

For details of the installation please see The bh TCSPC Handbook [2].

Hardware Installation

To install the DPC-230 module, switch off the computer and insert the board (and the

DCC-100 board, if you have one) into a free slot PCI slot. To avoid damage due to electro-

static discharge we recommend to touch a metallic part of the computer with one hand and

then to grasp the module at the metallic back shield with the other hand. This will drain any

potentially dangerous charge from you and the module. Then insert the module into a free slot

of the computer. Keep the DPC module as far as possible apart from loose cables or other

computer modules to avoid noise pick-up.

The DPC-230 modules has a PCI interface. Windows has a list of PCI hardware components.

On the start of the operating system, it automatically assigns the required hardware resources

to the components of this list. If you have several DPC or DCC modules in the computer each

module automatically gets its own address range.

Driver Installation

When the computer is started the first time with a DPC module Windows detects the new

module and attempts to update its list of hardware components. Therefore it may ask for

driver information from a disk. When this happens, put the installation CD into the drive and

select the drivers for Windows 2000, NT, XP an Vista. If you don’t have the installation disk

at hand you can also download the driver file from the bh web site, see Fig. 17.

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