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Software Information

All the software documentation for the VM-1 embedded controller's Venom language can be downloaded here, and there are also application notes and code snippets.
Hardware datasheets are available from the datasheets page.

Reference

The Venom Help File (Windows HTML Help format)

Fully interactive help information for Venom Language and Objects. more...

Note: Due to a restriction in Windows, .chm files will not run from a networked drive. Please run this from your local (usually C:) drive.

Additionally some windows configurations may still not display the .CHM file after downloading. Right click the .CHM file icon, select properties and then "Unblock". For detailed explanation see this Microsoft help page.

Venom Help (CHM) PDFVenom Help (CHM)

The Venom Help File (PDF Format)

The same help file in PDF format for printing or for customers not using Windows.

The .CHM Help File above is the prefered option.
Venom Help (PDF) PDFVenom Help (PDF)

Quick Reference

A single sheet (print double sided) summary of Venom-SC. Quick Ref PDFQuick Ref

Tutorial

Tutorial Guide
This book takes an engineer through the basic concepts of programming in Venom-SC, from fundamentals through to developing application programs.

It is suitable for those new to programming as well as those with experience in other programming languages.

160 pages. Available here in PDF, and also in paperback (Product code 5819).

A printed copy of the Tutorial Guide comes with the Starter Kit.

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Tutorial PDFTutorial
This four-page update to the Tutorial lists improvements in the Venom-SC language that have occurred since the book was published. Tutorial Update PDFTutorial Update

Release Information

Descriptions of known bugs and problems in the current software version, with suggested workarounds and proposed fixes. bugs PDFbugs
Release note for all versions of software (opens in a separate window) release note PDFrelease note

Application notes and Code Examples ("snippets")

Non-Volatile Array example code Non-Volatile Arrays PDFNon-Volatile Arrays
PT100 linearisation algorithm PT100 PDFPT100
Thermistor linearisation algorithm Thermistor PDFThermistor
Four sans serif fonts. Sans fonts PDFSans fonts
A big Monospaced font, ideal for large numeric displays. Big Mono Font PDFBig Mono Font
Three very small fonts. small fonts PDFsmall fonts
Application Note: Data Logging with the Memory Card File System datalogging PDFdatalogging
MODBUS/TCP skeleton application MODBUS/TCP PDFMODBUS/TCP
Email sending and receiving example email PDFemail
Code snippet: using new ProtAnalyser to extract data from an RSS feed (XML data) rss snippet PDFrss snippet
Code snippet: using new ProtAnalyser to parse an NMEA sentence from a GPS receiver (example of CSV data) gps snippet PDFgps snippet
Application note: Differences between ProtAnalyser in Venom 2007 09 10 and versions before 2007 07 03, shown as a side-by-side feature comparison ProtAnalyser20070910 PDFProtAnalyser20070910

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