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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

Resolving upgradation issues


It is generally understood that a new version of software should have less bugs and more features and support a wider variety of hardware; or let us just assume so.

Compatibility

When software giants such as Microsoft plan an upgrade or a new version, usually they have been in contact with companies that use their product the most (that is, companies with the largest monetary income). They are aware of what those customers want and what has been missing, and of course, what bugs still remain to be fixed on the upcoming upgrade.

Deployment strategy

We will not go into too much detail on this subject, but imagine a factory that has hundreds or thousands of PCs and they all need to be upgraded. Suddenly a simple upgrade may cause down time and extra labor to ensure a smooth upgrade.

Backward compatibility

I did mention that you may need to upgrade all systems in a factory, but almost always NOT all systems do the exact same functionality and there are always a few that...