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Data Acquisition using LabVIEW

By : Behzad Ehsani
Book Image

Data Acquisition using LabVIEW

By: Behzad Ehsani

Overview of this book

NI LabVIEW's intuitive graphical interface eliminates the steep learning curve associated with text-based languages such as C or C++. LabVIEW is a proven and powerful integrated development environment to interact with measurement and control hardware, analyze data, publish results, and distribute systems. This hands-on tutorial guide helps you harness the power of LabVIEW for data acquisition. This book begins with a quick introduction to LabVIEW, running through the fundamentals of communication and data collection. Then get to grips with the auto-code generation feature of LabVIEW using its GUI interface. You will learn how to use NI-DAQmax Data acquisition VIs, showing how LabVIEW can be used to appropriate a true physical phenomenon (such as temperature, light, and so on) and convert it to an appropriate data type that can be manipulated and analyzed with a computer. You will also learn how to create Distribution Kit for LabVIEW, acquainting yourself with various debugging techniques offered by LabVIEW to help you in situations where bugs are not letting you run your programs as intended. By the end of the book, you will have a clear idea how to build your own data acquisition system independently and much more.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Data Acquisition Using LabVIEW
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
9
Alternate Software for DAQ

Why such an introduction?


In this chapter, we will be talking about hardware made for use with LabVIEW by other companies (and not National Instruments). Almost any reputable company releases LabVIEW Vis with their hardware. Make sure to search for the LabVIEW drive and Vis. Our main component will be a measurement computing DAQ and several boards that are made to do certain specific jobs. We will talk extensively about the DAQ, but these boards I mentioned previously are also very good and better yet at very reasonable prices. They are Chinese made and you can buy some of them on Amazon and many more nice gadgets at https://www.banggood.com. The two products we are going to use are:

E-1608, 16-Bit Multifunction Ethernet DAQ Device

Key highlights:

  • 16-bit high-speed Ethernet device

  • Sample rates up to 250 kS/s

  • 8 SE/4 DIFF analog inputs

  • Two 16-bit analog outputs

  • Eight individually-configurable digital I/O

  • One 32-bit counter input

  • Includes a built-in 10/100 BASE-T auto-negotiation, high-speed communication...