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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

Debugging - Probe, Custom Probe


As mentioned earlier, LabVIEW objects and functions are connected to each other through data carrying wire. One of the very effective methods of debugging is to create probes and custom probes in various locations, on wires of interests. Probes or (custom probes) in conjunction with highlighted execution or breakpoints in place, LabVIEW will open a new window (right bottom on the following diagram) that concurrently shows the value of each wire where each probe has been placed. To create a probe (or a custom probe), right-click on the specific locations where you want a probe to be placed and select Probe or Custom Probe.

This example simply consists of three random number generators that are connected to each other to do arbitrary simple mathematical manipulations. We have enclosed the connection inside a while loop and placed a 1000 milliseconds delay inside the while loop to slow down the loop so that an observer can distinguish between the numbers that...