Bomem-GRAMS User's Guide

CHAPTER 3
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
Note: If the computer is supplied by ABB Inc., the software is already installed
and configured.
Administrator access privileges are required to install the Michelson
Collect Driver.
For convenience, this installation procedure is provided in this manual
and in the FT-IR Spectrometer Ethernet Interface and External Ethernet
for FT-IR User's Guide.
3.1 Software
description
GRAMS/LT is a simplified
version of GRAMS/AI. It can
be provided by ABB with the
purchase of certain
instruments.
This chapter shows how to install the following software:
‣ Products from Thermo Galactic including GRAMS/AI (or GRAMS/LT)
GRAMS/AI is a program for spectral acquisition, display, and processing.
It also includes tools for building calibration models.
‣ The Michelson Collect Driver from ABB. This includes the following
components:
• the ABB FT-IR Control Panel configuration applet (bodriv.cpl)
This is used to configure the FT-IR Spectrometer Ethernet Interface of
an instrument and to update the firmware.
• the Acquisition DLL (bograms.dll)
This enables applications to control and acquire data from ABB FT-IR
instruments through the FT-IR Spectrometer Ethernet Interface.
• the Collect menu. This menu is added to GRAMS/AI or GRAMS/LT
and contains commands allowing you to set acquisition parameters for
and acquire spectra from ABB FT-IR instruments.
The Collect menu is part of an ActiveX acquisition interface (bgac.dll).
The interface simplifies connecting to the FT-IR Spectrometer Ethernet
Interface from any application that supports ActiveX.
Note: Once the Collect menu has been added to GRAMS/AI, the software is
referred to as Bomem-GRAMS
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