What's New in Mr. Kick vs. 1.00+

What's New

• Version 1.00 is the first full release of Mr. Kick.

Version 1.1

• 1.10 (preliminary): Stimulus Protocol classification mode.
• 1.11: Modules - a new concept. The following modules are available: Continous Data Acquisition and a module that can cut continously acquired data into sweeps. The Power Spectrum (FFT) has been included in this concept.
• 1.12b: Start and End Time in Classification Setup has engineering notation as of this vs. (001102).
• 1.13: SuperImposed View module and a preliminary Integral-Baseln analysis method (1.12f).
• 1.13a: AOPI Pulse Burst Train has been added.
• 1.13b-c: SuperImposed View module extended with data manipulation (gain, offset and time shift) as well as cursor related analysis.
• 1.13e: Free running scope window is scalable. (011015)
• 1.14: All relevant analysis methods can now work with a non-zero baseline. The preliminary Integral-Baseln analysis method is replaced. Also if Y-scaling is set to manual (M) the chosen Y-range will be restored when Mr. Kick is restarted. (011017)

Bugs and fixes

• 0.902/1.00: When Stimulus Type classification acted on Event Timing and one or more event timers were disabled in part of the classes, then such a disabled event timer might still trigger in the first sweep of a new series. (Fixed).
• 1.01: In Analog Output setup: When both AO-channels are in use, making one channel non-active in some classes does not work. (Fixed 000608).
• 1.02: Export of analysis results (the XL-buttons on data display panel) did not include cursor positions. (Fixed 000626).
• 1.11: In the Power Spectrum (FFT) analysis PreProcessed and Averaged data where interchanged. (Fixed 000821).
• 1.12: In vs. 1.02 through test version 1.11 an Analog Output setup with non-zero offset and a sensitivity different from 1.0 would cause jumps in the analog output signal on the first sweep in a series. (Fixed 000913).
• 1.12a: Loading a file via Open & Change choosing Save & OK would hang version 1.12. (Fixed 000918).
• 1.12c: If you were really fast on the Next/Prev sweep and Excel analysis export buttons you might end up with analysis results from different sweeps in the same row in Excel ! (Fixed 001117).
• 1.12d: Earlier versions were not able to read more than 1000 sweeps from one file. (Fixed 001127)
• 1.13d: When disabling AO in some of a number of classes earlier versions would cause an error (-10687, acquisition buffer). (Fixed 011005)
• 1.14: The F9-shortcut key assigned to the Acquire button on the display panel was lost as of vs. 1.12f, now restored. (Fixed 011017)
• Analog trig still causes problems: According to National Instruments a full synchronization of data acquisition and Event Timing and Analog Output is not possible when combined with pre-trig!
  As a result the build-in analog trig in Mr. Kick can only be applied safely when triggers occur at intervals sufficiently longer than the time it takes Mr. Kick to get ready for another sweep (depends on the computer in use). A simple piece of external hardware combined with Analog Output is able to do the job!..

All bugs should be reported to knl - the sooner the better!
 

Behind the scenes

• 1.10: LabVIEW was updated to RT version 5.1.2.
• 1.12b: Routing of Counter #0 Gate to PFI #9 has been removed.

Several attempts on upgrading Mr. Kick to compile with LabVIEW vs 6.0.2 has failed: It seems that errors are introduced during recompilation of some fundamental VIs. We'll continue to try in order to keep up with the latest technolgies, but it will not be a top priority task - i.e. we are still running LabVIEW RT 5.1.2.