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Data Acquisition using LabVIEW

By : Behzad Ehsani
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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
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Chapter 5. Debugging Techniques

Even if you are a very experienced programmer and a seasoned engineer, chances are that you will make mistakes while coding and will need help to resolve all occurring warnings and errors to complete your program. We all know that one may open a text editor and write some code and have a running operating system compile the code. But serious collaborative programming requires a professional IDE. Visual Studio (as an example) jumps to my mind as I write these lines. It seems every day a new language appears in the industry and along with it a new development environment.

As a comparison, LabVIEW has gone one step beyond others since its inception, which is its ability to communicate seamlessly with hardware. LabVIEW has a very comprehensive and reliable IDE that is very intelligent such that the intelligence built in LabVIEW may be mistaken as "anybody can program in LabVIEW", it is "trivial" such that they do not need to go through formal training to use it...