Advantech PCM-9388 User Manual

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PCM-9388 User Manual 384.3.2.4 The VGA Control APIThere are two kinds of VGA control APIs, backlight on/off control and brightness con-trol. Backlight on/off control allows a developer to turn on or off the backlight, and tocontrol brightness smoothly.4.3.2.5 The Watchdog APIA watchdog timer (abbreviated as WDT) is a hardware device which triggers anaction, e.g. rebooting the system, if the system does not reset the timer within a spe-cific period of time. The WDT API in SUSI provides developers with functions such asstarting the timer, resetting the timer, and setting the timeout value if the hardwarerequires customized timeout values.4.3.2.6 The Hardware Monitor APIThe hardware monitor (abbreviated as HWM) is a system health supervision capabil-ity achieved by placing certain I/O chips along with sensors for inspecting the targetof interests for certain condition indexes, such as fan speed, temperature and voltageetc.However, due to the inaccuracy among many commercially available hardware mon-itoring chips, Advantech has developed a unique scheme for hardware monitoring -achieved by using a dedicated microprocessor with algorithms specifically designedfor providing accurate, real-time and reliable data content; helping protect your sys-tem in a more reliable manner4.3.3 SUSI InstallationSUSI supports many different operating systems. Each subsection below describeshow to install SUSI and related software on a specific operating system. Please referto the subsection matching your operating system.4.3.3.1 Windows XPIn Windows XP, you can install the library, drivers and demo programs onto the plat-form easily using the installation tool - The SUSI Library Installer. After the installerhas executed, the SUSI Library and related files for Windows XP can be found in thetarget installation directory. The files are listed in the following table.The following section illustrates the installation process:Directory Contents\Library Susi.libLibrary for developing the applications on Windows XP. Susi.dllDynamic library for SUSI on Windows XP.\Demo SusiDemo.EXEDemo program on Windows XP. Susi.dllDynamic library for SUSI on Windows XP.\Demo\SRC Source code of the demo program on Windows XP.Note! The version of the SUSI Library Installer shown on each screen shotbelow depends on your own particular version.