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Acoustic Signals, Creating with Low IMD
ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter)
Alert
Aliasing, Sampled Data
Alternate Menu Pages
Alternate Trace Color
AM Trigger Source, Virtual Source
Amplitude Modulation
Amplitude Resolution
Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
Analysis Frequency Resolution
Applications - Distortion Measurement
Applications - Sound / Event-Triggered Sequences
Array, Memory (See also Memory Array)
Artifact Limits
Artifact Rejection
Artifact Skipping, Manual
Artifact Skipping, Remote
ASCII Text Editors
Assign Colors, Spectrogram
Attenuation, dB
Attenuator Drivers
Auto-Initialization Key Macro
Auto-Repeat Key Macro (Loop)
Auto Trigger Mode
Auto Zero
Auxiliary Comment Editor (EdAux)
AvAdd
AVERAGER OPERATION:
A. Add (AvAdd)
A. Artifact Limits
A. Artifact Rejection
A. Automatic Remote Artifact Rejection
A. Control Menu
A. Dither: Noise + Averaging = Resolution
A. Exponential Averaging
A. Histogram - Amplitude Distribution
A. Interference
A. Instantaneous \ Average Toggle
A. Joint Average Control Menu
A. Joint Average Spectrum \ Wave Toggle
A. Joint Average Start (JntAv)
A. Mode
A. Noise
A. Manual Artifact Skipping
A. Manual Remote Artifact Skipping
A. Peak "Averaging"
A. Post-Stimulus Time Histogram (PSTH)
A. Remote Control
A. Skip
A. Spectral Averaging
A. Start (Avg)
A. Subtract (AvSub)
A. Sweeps
A. Sweeps Count Display
A. Theory
A. Triggering
A. True
A. Waveform Averaging
Avg
AvSub
Axis Colors
Background Screen Color
Bandwidth Correction, Window
Batch File for Eliminating Network Drivers
Beeper, Alert
Binary Data File Formats
Bitmap (.BMP) Files, Screen Image
Bits, Dither Increase
Bits, Trace Info
Bits, Virtual Source
BK4134 Microphone Calibration Example File
Blackman Window (Bkmn)
Blackman Exact Window (BkmX)
Blackman-Harris Window (BkHr)
Board
Board Drivers
Board Model, Trace Info
Break, Halt/Step Key Macro
Cache, Hard Drive and DDisk
Calibration - Menu
Calibration Files
Calibration, Microphone
Calibration, Speaker
Calibration, Transfer Functions
Coherent Averaging
COLOR CONTROL:
C. Alternate Pages
C. Alternate Trace
C. Axes
C. ColorMap Assign
C. ColorMap Palette
C. ColorMap Select
C. Control Menus
C. Cursor
C. EGA Color Fine Adjustment
C. EGA Emulation on VGA
C. Erase Palette
C. Grid
C. Insert / Delete (Sgram)
C. Label
C. Link, Help
C. Load Palette File
C. Memory, Palette
C. Menu Color
C. Modifying a Palette - Step by Step
C. Palette Operations Submenu
C. Palettes
C. Panel
C. Save Palette File
C. Screen Background
C. Spectrogram Color Weights
C. Spectrogram Color Assignment (ColorMap) Menu
C. Submenus
C. Text, Help
C. Trace
C. VGA Color Fine Adjustment
Comment, Auxiliary Text (EdAux)
Comment, Changing on Recalled Trace
Comment, Copy Parameter to Field
Comment Editor (Edit)
Comment Editor Key Usage
Comment / Message Line
Comment, Saving to a Log File (EdSav)
Configuration File
Configuring Driver Parameters
Contact Interstellar Research
CONTROL MENUS:
C. Pick List ("Radio Button")
C. Toggle
C. Cursor-Adjust
C. Direct Entry
C. Submenus
Control, Process - Level / Event Triggering
Converter, Analog-to-Digital (ADC)
Converter, Digital-to-Analog (DAC)
Contents, Main
CPM Mode
Cursor-Adjust Menu Items
Cursor Color
Cursor Exchange (CursX)
Cursor Fixed Step
Cursor Max Step
Cursor Rate
Cursor Readout Averaging
Cursor Readouts
Cursor Runs with IntCr
CursX
Cycle, Stimulus Trigger
Cycle, Trigger
DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter)
Daqarta - General Description
Daqarta - Shareware Registration
Date, Trace Info
dB (decibels), Definition and Discussion
dB Range (Y-log mode)
Delay, Trigger
Delay, Wait Seconds (WaitS)
Delay, Other Techniques
Descriptive Key Macro Name Viewer
DDisk
DDISK13A.DRV Special DDisk Driver
Delete Memory Traces
Delete Spectrogram Color
DFT Frequency Resolution
Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
Direct Entry Menu Items
DIRECT-TO-DISK (DDisk) OPERATION:
D. Cache Write Mode
D. Direct Write Mode
D. Memory Write Mode
D. Preset File Size
D. PreStart
D. Readout Units
D. Recording
D. Recording Control Menu
D. Remote Control
D. Skip and Pause
D. Sound-Triggered Recording
DIRECT-TO-DISK DRIVE COMPATIBILITY:
D. DEMO Board Tests
D. Overview
D. Power Management Problems, Laptops
D. RAM Drive Operation
D. Special Driver DDISK13A.DRV
DIRECT-TO-DISK FILE READ (DskRd):
D. Automatic Glitch Scan
D. Automatic Peak Scan
D. Automatic Replay
D. Control Menu
D. Direct Go-To
D. Free-Run Overlap Control
D. Manual Movement
D. Triggered Replay
D. Scrolling
D. Spectrogram Width
D. Speed Factor
D. WAV Files, Non-Daqarta Format
Disable - Board Setup
Disaster Management
Disk Cache, using with DDisk
Display Range / Magnification
Display Updates, RTime vs Sequential
Discrete Sine and Cosine References
Distortion, dB Measurement
Distortion - Theory and Measurement
Distribution, Histogram
Dither: Noise + Averaging = Resolution
DMA Operation
DQA.CFG Configuration File
DQALOG.TXT Log File
DQA.MAC Key Macro File
Driver Help Without Board
Drivers, Attenuator
Drivers, Batch File for Eliminating Network
Drivers, Board
DskRd
Duplex, Half and Full
Dynamic Range, Increasing with FFT32
EdAux - Edit Auxiliary Text
Edit Comment Functions
Edit Key Usage
Edsav Comments to Log File
EGA Color Fine Adjustment
EGA Emulation on VGA
EMM386, Batch File for Avoiding
END Key, DskRd File Motion
END Key, File Access
END Key, MemSv
END Key, Text Editor
Equal-Tempered Musical Scale Frequencies
Erase Color Palette
ESCape Help Item
ESCape Menu Item
European Notation
Event-Triggered Sequences
Exchange Cursors (CursX)
eXpand on Cursors (XCurs)
eXpand Trace (Xpand)
Exponential Averaging
Extern Trigger Source
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
FFT / WAVEFORM OPERATION:
F. Amplitude Resolution
F. Auto Zero (Zero)
F. CPM Mode
F. FFT / Waveform Modes
F. FFT32 High Dynamic Range Mode
F. Fourier Transform Theory
F. Frequency Resolution
F. Magnification
F. Magnification vs Help
F. Power Spectral Density (PSD)
F. Power Spectrum (Y-log)
F. Time Resolution
F. X-Log
Field, Parameter Copy to
FIFO Operation
File Name Defaults
FILE OPERATIONS:
F. Access System
F. Binary Data File Formats
F. Direct-to-Disk (DDisk) Recording
F. Direct-to-Disk File Reading (DskRd)
F. File Name Auto-Increment (IncNm)
F. Input Binary Data from File (InDat)
F. Key Macro use with
F. Output Binary Data to File (OutDt)
F. Output Screen Image to Bitmap File (OutSc)
F. Output Text Data to File (OutTx)
F. Overwrite Confirmation
File, Calibration
File, Color Palette Save
File, Color Palette Load
Files, Help System
Filters for Noise Rejection
Flash, Alert
Flat-Top Window (Fltp)
FM Triggering, Experiments
FM Triggering, Virtual Source
Forcing Driver Installation Without Board
Format, Board Data (Trace Info)
Formulas, Sound
Formulas, Trigonometric
FOURIER TRANSFORM THEORY:
F. Analysis Frequency Resolution
F. Conceptual Analyzer
F. DFT Frequency Resolution
F. Discrete Sine and Cosine References
F. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
F. Fundamental Time - Frequency Domain Concepts
F. Introduction
F. Practical Analyzer
F. Sine Wave Synthesis
F. Sine Wave Analysis
F. Sampled Data for the Discrete Fourier Transform
F. Sampled Data Aliasing
Free-Run Trigger Mode (Free)
Free Trial Period - 30 Sessions
Frequencies, Musical Note
Frequency, Virtual Source
Frequency Modulation, Virtual Source
Frequency Resolution
Full Duplex
Full-Scale (0 dB) Reference Adjust
Full-Scale Trace Magnification
Gain, dB
Gaussian Noise Sources
Getting Started
Gibb's Phenomenon
Glossary
GRAPHICS.COM Printer Driver
Gray-Scale Summing
Grid Toggle
Halting a Running Key Macro
Hamming Window (Hamm)
Hanning Window (Hann)
Hard Drive Compatibility with DDisk
Hardware Delay, Keyboard
Hardware Rate, Keyboard
Harmonic Distortion
HELP SYSTEM:
H. Context-Sensitive
H. Display Formats (5-line and 25-line)
H. Files
H. Hypertext Operation
H. Key Preview
H. Key Summary
H. Main vs. Control
H. Plug-in
Help, Driver Without Board
High Dynamic Range with FFT32
High-Pass Filter
Histogram, Amplitude Distribution
Histogram, Post-Stimulus Time (PSTH)
History, Daqarta Revisions
Hold-Off, Trigger (Cycle)
Hypersampling
ID, Key Macro
ID, Trace Memory
Image File (.BMP), Screen Capture with OutSc
Increment Value by Fixed Step
InDat
Inharmonic (Intermodulation) Distortion
INIT line, in DQA.CFG file
Initialization Macro, Automatic
Input Binary Data from File (InDat)
INSert = Run Key Macro (KeyRn)
Insert / Delete Spectrogram Color
IntCr for Cursor Run Response
Interference, and Averaging
Intermodulation Distortion
Intern Trigger Source
Interrupts
Interstellar Research, Contacting
Instantaneous \ Average Toggle
Isolation, Electrical
Joint Average (JntAv) (See also Averager Operation)
Joint Average Control Menu
Joint Avergage Spectrum \ Wave Toggle
Key Options
KEY MACROS:
K. Auto-Initialization
K. Creating and Storing (KeySt)
K. Descriptive Name, Changing
K. Descriptive Name Viewer
K. Files
K. Forcing an Option State (KeyOn)
K. Introduction
K. Halting
K. Memory Management
K. Nested (Subroutines)
K. Quit from
K. Random Value Entry
K. Running (KeyRn)
K. Saving Traces to Files with
K. Single-Step
K. Sound / Event-Triggered Sequences
K. Text vs Option keys
K. Tips
K. User Tone
K. Wait for Pause (WaitP)
K. Wait Seconds Delay (WaitS)
KEYBOARD CONTROL:
K. Cursor Exchange (CursX)
K. Cursor Fixed Step
K. Cursor Max Step
K. Cursor Rate
K. Hardware Delay
K. Hardware Rate
K. Keyboard Control Utility (XKBD.EXE)
K. Readout Averaging
K. Response Control Menu
K. Sticky Shift Keys
Keyboard Response, RTime vs Sequential
KeyOn
KeyRn
KeySt
Label Color
LAPTOP HINTS:
L. Monochrome, Optimizing from Color System
L. Power Management Problems
L. Slow Display Response
LBA (Linear Block Address) and DDISK13A.DRV
L. Spectrogram Color Weights
Level, Trigger
Level, Virtual Source
Level vs. Attenuation, dB
Line Continuation in DQA.CFG file
Line Style, Trace
Link Color, Help
Live Trace
Load Mic Cal File
Load Spkr Cal File
Load Color Palette File
Log File DQALOG.TXT
Loop, Key Macro
Low-Pass Filter
Macros (See also Key Macros)
Magnification, Forcing and Restoring Full-Scale
Magnification, Trace
Magnification vs Help
Main Trigger, Virtual Source
Measurement, Distortion
Memory Array
MEMORY ARRAY CONTROL MENU:
M. File
M. Label
M. Label Width
M. Limit
M. Order
M. Posn or Lbl Step
M. Sort
M. Step
Memory, Color Palette
Memory, DDisk Write Mode
Memory Delete
Memory Read (MemRd)
Memory Save (MemSv)
Memory, Trace (See also Trace Memory)
Menu Color
Menus, Control (See also Control Menus)
Message Line
Message, WaitS
Mic Cal File Load
Mic Cal On/Off
Microphone Calibration Files, Creating From Text
Microphone Calibration Files, Introduction
Microphone Calibration Files, Saving
Mixed Signal Windowing
Mode, Averager
Modulation Depth, AM Virtual Source
Modules, Plug-in
Multiple Traces (Memory Arrays)
Multiplier Mode, AM Virtual Source
Music - Sound-Triggered
Musical Note Frequencies
Name, Descriptive Key Macro Viewer
Negative Trigger Delay
Nested Key Macros
Network Compatibility
Noise, Apparent Reduction With Spectral Averaging
Noise, Dither and Resolution
Noise, and Number of Data Points (N)
Noise, Reduction With Waveform Averaging
Noise, Virtual Source
Noise, Uniform vs Gaussian
Noise, Windowing Effects
Norm Trigger Mode
Note Frequencies, Musical
Number of Data Points (N)
NUM-LOCK, not allowed for editing
NUM-LOCK, Halt/Step Key Macro
Offset Binary Data Format
Operations, Sound / Event Triggering
Orders, Distortion
OutDt
Output Binary Data to File (OutDt)
Output Screen Image to Bitmap File (OutSc)
Output Text Data to File (OutTx)
OutTx
Overlap Control via Trigger Cycle
Overlap Operation
Overlap, Scrolling with DskRd
Overlap - Spectrogram Width with DskRd
Oversampling
Overwrite Confirmation, File
Pacer, defined
Palette
Palette, Modifying - Step by Step
Palette, Spectrogram Color Assignment (ColorMap)
Panel Color
Parallel Menu Pages
Parameters, Board Configuration
Parameters, Copy to Comment Field
Parameters, INIT line in DQA.CFG file
Parameters Saved with Files and Memory Traces
Pascal, Units Conversion
Pause
Pause, DDisk
Pause key (grey), Halt/Step Key Macro
Pause Wait, Key Macro (WaitP)
Peak "Averaging"
Peak-to-Peak Measurements with ZeroP
Phase, Sine Wave Basics
Piano, Standard Keyboard Frequencies
Pick List ("Radio Button") Menu Items
Pink Noise Response Correction
Pixel, defined
Plug-in Modules
Points, Analysis (N)
Post-Stimulus Time Histogram (PSTH)
Power Spectral Density (PSD)
Power Spectrum (Y-log)
Printer Driver, Installing
Printing the Screen - Directly
Printing from a Screen Image File
Probe Tube Microphone, Calibration
Process Control, Level / Event Triggering
Protected Mode, Batch File for Avoiding
Pseudo-Random Source
PSTH (Post-Stimulus Time Histogram)
Pulse Trigger Source
Quit, EdAux Text Saved at
Quit Daqarta
Quit from Key Macro
Radio Button Menu Items
RAM Drive Operation with DDisk
Random Value Entry
Randomize Pseudo-Random Source
Range, Display
Read Trace from Memory (MemRd)
Readouts, Cursor
REAL-TIME / SEQUENTIAL OPERATION:
R. Display Updates
R. DMA
R. FIFO
R. Interrupts
R. Keyboard Response
R. Overlap Operation
R. Real-Time (RTime) Mode
R. Real-Time vs Sequential Mode
R. Sequential Mode
Reboot System
Recording, Direct to Disk (DDisk)
Recording, Sound-Triggered
Recovery, Disaster
Register Display, CPU
Registration, Daqarta Shareware
Reminder - Free Trial Period (30 Sessions)
Remote Artifact Skipping
Remote Artifact Skipping, Automatic
Remote Control, Averager
Remote Control Switch Construction
Requirements, System
Resolution, Amplitude
Resolution, Dither Increase
Resolution, Frequency
Resolution, Time
Response, Cursor Run with IntCr
Response, Keyboard Control Menu
Revision History
RMS (Root Mean Square)
Root-Square Summation
RTime
Safety, Live Subjects and Electrical Isolation
Sample Frequency (Rate)
Sample Period
Sample Rate Control
Sampled Data for the Discrete Fourier Transform
Save Cal File - Calibrating Microphones
Save Color Palette File
Save Trace to Memory (MemSv)
Scientific Prefixes
Screen Background Color
Screen Image to Bitmap File
Screen Print
Screen Tour
Scroll, DDisk File Read
Scroll, Help System
Scroll, Memory Array
Scroll, Slow Waveform Display
Scroll, Trace Memory
Scroll, Value Adjust
Scroll, Xpand Limits
Scroll Lock, Sticky Shift
Select Colors, Spectrogram
Sequential Mode
Sgram (See also Spectrogram)
Shape View, Window
Shareware Registration, Daqarta
Shift Keys, Sticky
Single-Step in Key Macro
Single-Sweep Operation
Sine Wave Analysis
Sine Wave Basics
Sine Wave Products (Experiment)
Sine Wave Synthesis
Sine Wave Synthesis, Experiments
Skip, Averager
Skip, DDisk
Slope, Trigger
SMARTDRV and DDisk
Sort, Memory Array
Sound Formulas
Sound-Triggered Sequences
Source, Trigger
Speaker Calibration
Speaker Calibration Files, Saving
Spectral Averaging
SPECTROGRAM (Sgram):
S. Color Assignment (ColorMap) Menu
S. Assign
S. Palette
S. Select
S. Color Insert / Delete
S. Color Weights
S. Control Menu
S. Sensitivity
S. Sound-Triggered
S. Toggle
S. Y-Axis
Spectrogram Width - DDisk Read
Spectrum Analyzer, Conceptual
Spectrum Analyzer, Practical
Speed Display
Spkr Cal File Load
Spkr Cal On/Off
SPL Conversion To Other Units
SPL (Sound Pressure Level), dB
Status Display
Step Response Correction
Sticky Shift Keys
Stim Source, Trigger
Stimulus Cycle, Trigger
Stimulus Generator
Stimulus Oversampling
Submenus
Subroutines, Nested Key Macros
Subtract Average (AvSub)
Sweep Step Mode For Reponse Calibration
Sweeps Request, Averager
Sweeps Count Display, Averager
Sync (Trigger)
Synchronous Averaging
System Configuration, Changing to Eliminate Drivers
System Requirements
System Status, Daqarta
Text Color, Help
Text Editors, ASCII
Theory, Averager
Theory, Fourier Transform
Theory, Windowing
Tilt Response, (+3 dB / +6 dB) (Pink / Step)
Time, Trace Info
Time - Frequency Domain Concepts
Time Resolution
Timed Virtual Source
Timer (WaitS)
Title Line
Toggle Menu Items
Tone, Alert
Tone Switches
Tone, User
Trace Area
Trace Color
TRACE INFO MENU:
T. Bits
T. Board Model
T. Date
T. Format
T. Time
Trace Line Style
Trace Magnification
Trace Magnification, Forcing and Restoring Full-Scale
Trace Magnification vs Help
TRACE MEMORY:
T. Array
T. Delete
T. Introduction
T. Memory Read (MemRd)
T. Memory Save (MemSv)
Traces, Multiple (Memory Arrays)
Transducer Calibration
Transfer Functions (Xfer Cal Files)
Transient Problems, Windowing
Trial Period - 30 Sessions
Trig
TRIGGER OPERATION:
T. AM Source
T. Auto Mode
T. Averager
T. Control Menu
T. Cycle
T. Delay
T. Delay Range
T. External Source
T. FM Source
T. Free Mode
T. Internal Source
T. Introduction
T. Level
T. Main Source
T. Negative Delay
T. Norm Mode
T. Pulse Source
T. Slope
T. Sound / Event-Triggered Sequences
T. Source
T. Stim Source
T. Stimulus Cycle
T. Toggle (Trig/Free)
Trigger Status
Triggering, Averager
Trigonometric Relationships
True Average
TTL
Two's Complement Data Format
TXT2CAL (Text-to-Calibration File) Utility
Uniform vs Gaussian Noise Sources
UNITS CONTROL:
U. Control Menu
U. Factor
U. Toggle (Units)
U. Units Name
U. RMS Magnitude Spectrum Units (U-RMS)
User Tone
VGA Color Fine Adjustment
View Trace (View)
View Trace Cursors and Readouts (ViewC)
Viewing Driver Help Without a Board
VIRTUAL SOURCE:
V. AM Triggering
V. Amplitude Modulation
V. Bits
V. Board Toggle (Board)
V. Control Menu
V. FM Triggering
V. Frequency
V. Frequency Modulation (FM)
V. Level
V. Modulation Depth
V. Multiplier Mode
V. Noise
V. Timed
V. Uniform vs Gaussian Noise Sources
V. Waveform: Sine, Ramp, Square, Triangle
WaitP - Key Macro Pause Wait
WaitS - Wait Seconds Delay
WAV Files, Non-Daqarta Format
WAV Files, Daqarta Format
Waveform Averaging
Waveform, Virtual Source
Weights, Spectrogram Color
Width, Spectrogram - DDisk Read
Windo
WINDOWING:
W. Bandwidth Correction
W. Blackman (Bkmn)
W. Blackman Exact (BkmX)
W. Blackman-Harris (BkHr)
W. Control Menu
W. Flat-Top (Fltp)
W. Noise Effects
W. Mixed Signals
W. Hanning (Hann)
W. Hamming (Hamm)
W. Shape View
W. Theory
W. Transient Problems
W. Window Function Toggle (Windo)
X-AXIS (SAMPLE RATE) CONTROL:
X. Control Menu
X. eXpand Trace (Xpand)
X. eXpand on Cursors (XCurs)
X. Sample Period
X. Sample Frequency (Rate)
X. Xpand Bar Toggle
X. Xpand Max and Min
X. X-Log Display
X-Axis, Spectrogram Width - DDisk Read
X-Axis Units
XCurs - eXpand on Cursors
Xfer Cal Files (Transfer Functions)
XKBD.EXE
X-Log Display
Xpand Bar Toggle
Xpand Max and Min
Xpand Trace
Y-Axis Control Menu:
Y. Cal Files
Y. Calibrating Speakers
Y. Formulas For Working With Sound
Y. Load Mic Cal File
Y. Load Spkr Cal File
Y. Mic Cal On/Off
Y. Reference (0 dB) Adjust
Y. Save Cal File - Calibrating Microphones
Y. Spkr Cal On/Off
Y. Tilt (+3 dB / +6 dB) (Pink / Step)
Y. TXT2CAL Utility
Y. Xfer Cal Files (Transfer Functions)
Y-Axis, Spectrogram
Y-Axis Units
Y-log Power Spectrum
Zero, Auto
Zero dB Reference Adjust
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