Configuring a Custom Instrument

Configuration of a Custom Instrument component is performed using the Custom Instrument Configuration dialog (Figure 1). Access this dialog by right-clicking over the component and choosing the Configure command from the menu that appears.

Figure 1. Configuration dialog for the Custom Instrument component.

Configuration of the instrument is performed over three distinct tabs of the dialog:

• Signals – used to define base instrument options, including specification of the configuration file and how it is retrieved by Altium Designer.

• Design – used to create the customized GUI with which to interact with the instrument at run-time.

• Code – used to write any underlying script code used, for example, in the processing of instrument IO.

Use the following links take a closer look at what each of these three tabs has to offer.