LabView Visual Programming Language
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- National Instruments home page: http://www.natinst.com
- Runs on Windows 95, Windows
NT, MacOS, Sun and HP.
- Review of LabView 3.1: http://www.macworld.com/pages/november.95/Reviews.1226.html
- There are lots of LabView plug-ins available.
- LabView Drivers for Industrial Automation: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVindautor.htm
- LabView Drivers for Instrument Control: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVinstcont.htm
- National Instruments acquired
GeorgeTown Systems, maker
of the Lookout
process control system. Press release: http://www.natinst.com/press/feb9603.htm
- LabVIEW Drivers for Industrial Automation, PLCs, Plug-in DAQ, Motion
Controllers, and Industrial Devices: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVindauto.htm
- Windows LabView Features
- Graphical programming for instrumentation.
- Intuitive front panel user interfaces and block diagram programs.
- Versions available for Windows and
Windows NT.
- Concurrent operation with other applications.
- DDE used for interprocess communication.
- HiQ -- mathematical crunching software that LabView interfaces with.
- A set of VIs for network connection (TCP and derivatives) now makes
it easier to send data over a network.
- The LabVIEW GPIB, VXI, RS-232, and Data Acquisition VI Libraries call
the standard National Instruments DLLs and Windows
NT device drivers to acquire data from plug-in boards and external instruments.
These industry-standard drivers deliver both functionality and ease of use.
- Instrument Driver Development Tools
- National Instruments has created special instrument driver development
tools to supplement the LabVIEW environment and help you create standard
instrument drivers. The following tools are available with the standard
LabVIEW package.
- The LabVIEW Instrument Driver Templates are the foundation for all
LabVIEW instrument drivers and accelerate the development process. The templates
have a simple, flexible structure and a common set of instrument driver
VIs such as initialize, close, self-test, reset, error query, etc., for
use in the development drivers. Each has instructions for modifying it to
your particular instrument.
- The VISA Transition Library gives you an upgrade path to the National
Instruments next-generation I/O library called VISA (Virtual Instrument
Software Architecture).
- The VISA Transition Library is a subset of the overall VISA feature
set, providing the functionality needed by instrument drivers in an interface-independent
fashion for GPIB, MXI, and embedded VXI controllers. The VISA Transition
Library provides compatibility both today and for the future through a standard
set of I/O routines used by LabVIEW instrument drivers.
- LabView Picture Control Toolkit
- Description: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVpictcont.htm
- The LabVIEW Picture Control Toolkit is a versatile graphics add-on
package for creating arbitrary front panel displays. The toolkit adds the
Picture control and a library of VIs to your LabVIEW system. You can create
diagrams using a set of VIs to describe the drawing operations to build
these images dynamically. With these tools, you can create new front panel
displays like specialized bar graphs, pie charts, and Smithcharts. You can
also display and even animate arbitrary objects such as robot arms, test
equipment, a UUT, or a 2D display of areal-world process.
- LabView Application Builder
- Description: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVappbuild.htm
- The LabVIEW Application Builder is an add-on package for creating
stand-alone applications. When accompanied by the Application Builder, a
LabVIEW system can create VIs that operate as stand-alone applications.
You can run the executable, but cannot edit it.
- LabVIEW Test Executive Toolkit
- Description: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVindauto.htm
- The LabVIEW Test Executive Toolkit is a multipurpose LabVIEW add-on
package for automated test execution. Using this toolkit, you can control
test execution sequences for production and manufacturing test applications.
The Test Executive Toolkit includes a ready-to-run Test Executive application
developed in LabVIEW that you can use as delivered or customize to meet
your organization's specific requirements and standards. The toolkit delivers
the Test Executive in block diagram source code with high-level modules,
making it easy to modify.
- LabVIEW Database Connectivity Software
- Description: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVsql.htm
- The SQL Toolkit is a collection of LabVIEW VIs for direct interaction
with a local or remote database. High-level Access VIs simplify database
access by intelligently encapsulating common database operations into easy-to-use
VIs. For example, the Easy SQL VI performs a complete structured query language
(SQL) operation on a connected database. First, the SQL statement is executed,
then any resulting query data is directly retrieved into the LabVIEW block
diagram. Low-level Interface VIs directly access the database, operating
on columns and records in database tables.
- LabVIEW Statistical Process Control Software
- Description: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVspc.htm
- Integrate SPC into Your LabVIEW Data Acquisition Applications. Now
you can use LabVIEW not only to monitor your process, but also to identify
problems and actually improve the quality of the process. The LabVIEW SPC
Toolkit is a VI library for statistical process control (SPC) applications.
Using this toolkit, you can apply SPC methods to analyze and track process
performance. In addition to subVIs that perform the SPC computations, the
toolkit contains numerous example VIs and custom controls that demonstrate
how to incorporate typical SPC methods and displays into LabVIEW applications.
Perform on-line SPC while collecting data or analyze recorded data. Create
control charts. Display process statistics and histograms. Perform Pareto
analysis
- LabVIEW PID Control Toolkit
- Description: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVpid.htm
- The PID Control Toolkit adds sophisticated control algorithms to
LabVIEW. With this package, you can quickly build data acquisition and control
systems. By combining the PID Control Toolkit with the math and logic functions
in LabVIEW, you can quickly develop programs for automated control.
- PID Algorithms: The PID VIs implement a wide range of PID algorithms
with error-squared and external-reset feedback. VIs also implement lead-lag
compensation and setpoint ramp generation. Control parameters include multiloop
cascade, feedforward, minimum and maximum override, and ratio/bias. The
PID algorithms feature bumpless auto/manual transfer, antireset windup,
direct/inverse action, manual output adjustment, and a Run/Hold switch.
- Control Strategy Design: Using the PID Control Toolkit, you can
design the control strategies of the PID algorithms. You scale I/O values
from engineering units to percentages. You can also set up timing of the
PID algorithms. Finally, you can use tuning procedures for both Closed-Loop
(Ultimate Gain) and Open-Loop (Step Test).
- Process Control Examples: The PID Control VIs implement the algorithms
using LabVIEW functions and library subVIs without any code interface nodes
(CINs), so you can modify the VIs for your applications in LabVIEW without
writing any conventional code. This package also includes a complete set
of working simulations and demonstrations using National Instruments I/O
boards. Documentation for each VI is included in its Get Info... box. In
addition, Description boxes document each control and indicator.
- LabVIEW Joint-Time Frequency Analysis Software
- Description: http://www.natinst.com/software/swcat/LVjtfa.htm
- The Joint Time-Frequency Analysis (JTFA) Toolkit offers precise
signal analysis of data whose frequency content changes with time. Applications
include speech processing, sound analysis, sonar, radar, vibration analysis,
and dynamic signal monitoring. The package also contains the Joint Time-Frequency
Analyzer, a run-only application that analyzes your stored data files, displays
the resulting spectrogram, and saves the spectrogram to disk.