Labview 8Hours

Introduction to LabVIEW

6-Hour Hands-On

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Course Goals
• Become comfortable with the LabVIEW environment and data flow execution • Ability to use LabVIEW to solve problems • LabVIEW Concepts
– Acquiring, saving and loading data – Find and use math and complex analysis functions – Work with data types, such asarrays and clusters – Displaying and printing results

This is a list of the objectives of the course. This course prepares you to do the following: • • • • • • • • Use LabVIEW to create applications. Understand front panels, block diagrams, and icons and connector panes. Use built-in LabVIEW functions. Create and save programs in LabVIEW so you can use them as subroutines. Create applicationsthat use plug-in DAQ devices. Programming theory Every built-in LabVIEW function or object Analog-to-digital (A/D) theory

This course does not describe any of the following:

NI does provide free reference materials on the above topics on ni.com. The LabVIEW Help is also very helpful: LabVIEW»Help»Search the LabVIEW Help…

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The VirtualInstrumentation Approach

Virtual Instrumentation For more than 25 years, National Instruments has revolutionized the way engineers and scientists in industry, government, and academia approach measurement and automation. Leveraging PCs and commercial technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs for test, control, and design applications through easy-to-integratesoftware, such as NI LabVIEW, and modular measurement and control hardware for PXI, PCI, USB, and Ethernet. With virtual instrumentation, engineers use graphical programming software to create user-defined solutions that meet their specific needs, which is a great alternative to proprietary, fixed functionality traditional instruments. Additionally, virtual instrumentation capitalizes on theever-increasing performance of personal computers. For example, in test, measurement, and control, engineers have used virtual instrumentation to downsize automated test equipment (ATE) while experiencing up to a 10 times increase in productivity gains at a fraction of the cost of traditional instrument solutions. Last year 25,000 companies in 90 countries invested in more than 6 million virtualinstrumentation channels from National Instruments.

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LabVIEW Graphical Development System
• Graphical Programming Environment • Compile code for multiple OS and devices • Useful in a broad range of applications

National Instruments LabVIEW is an industry-leading software tool for designing test, measurement, and controlsystems. Since its introduction in 1986, engineers and scientists worldwide who have relied on NI LabVIEW graphical development for projects throughout the product design cycle have gained improved quality, shorter time to market, and greater engineering and manufacturing efficiency. By using the integrated LabVIEW environment to interface with real-world signals, analyze data for meaningfulinformation, and share results, you can boost productivity throughout your organization. Because LabVIEW has the flexibility of a programming language combined with built-in tools designed specifically for test, measurement, and control, you can create applications that range from simple temperature monitoring to sophisticated simulation and control systems. No matter what your project is, LabVIEW has thetools necessary to make you successful quickly.

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Virtual Instrumentation Applications
• Design – Signal and Image Processing – Embedded System Programming
• (PC, DSP, FPGA, Microcontroller)

A single graphical development platform

– Simulation and Prototyping Design – And more… • Control – Automatic Controls and Dynamic Systems –...