Title:
Learning with LabVIEW 8
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Publication Information:
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007
ISBN:
9780132390255
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Summary
Summary
For courses in Measurement and Instrumentation, Electrical Engineering lab, and Physics and Chemistry lab.
National Instruments' LabVIEW is the defacto industry standard for test, measurement, and automation software solutions.
ORDERING INFORMATION: To order this book with the LabVIEW 8.6 Student Edition software, please use Value Package ISBN: 0138004609 .
Table of Contents
| 1 LabView Basics |
| 1.1 System Configuration Requirements |
| 1.2 Installing the Student Edition of LabView |
| 1.3 The LabView Environment |
| 1.4 The Getting Started Screen |
| 1.5 Panel and Diagram Windows |
| 1.5.1 Front Panel Toolbar |
| 1.5.2 Block Diagram Toolbar |
| 1.6 Short Cut Menus |
| 1.7 Pull-Down Menus |
| 1.7.1 File Menu |
| 1.7.2 Edit Menu |
| 1.7.3 View Menu |
| 1.7.4 Project Menu |
| 1.7.5 Operate Menu |
| 1.7.6 Tools Menu |
| 1.7.7 Windows Menu |
| 1.7.8 Help Menu |
| 1.8 Palettes |
| 1.8.1 Tools Palette |
| 1.8.2 Controls Palette |
| 1.8.3 Functions Palette |
| 1.9 Opening, Loading, and Saving VIs |
| 1.10 LabView Help Options |
| 1.10.1 Context Help Window |
| 1.10.2 LabView Help |
| 1.11 Building Blocks: Pulse Width Modulation |
| 1.12 Relaxed Reading: Remote Controlled Excavation with LabView |
| 1.13 Summary Exercises Problems Design Problems |
| 2 Virtual Instruments |
| 2.1 What are Virtual Instruments? |
| 2.2 Several Worked Examples |
| 2.3 The Front Panel |
| 2.3.1 Numeric Controls and Indicators |
| 2.3.2 Boolean Controls and Indicators |
| 2.3.3 Configuring Controls and Indicators |
| 2.4 The Block Diagram |
| 2.4.1 VIs and Express VIs |
| 2.4.2 Nodes |
| 2.4.3 Terminals |
| 2.4.4 Wiring |
| 2.5 Building Your First VI |
| 2.6 Data Flow Programming |
| 2.7 Building a VI Using Express VIs |
| 2.8 Building Blocks: Pulse Width Modulation |
| 2.9 Relaxed Reading: LabView Automates Brain Wave Experiments |
| 2.10 Summary Exercises Problems Design Problems |
| 3 Mathscript |
| 3.1 What is MathScript? |
| 3.2 Accessing the MathScript Interactive Window |
| 3.2.1 The Command History Window |
| 3.2.2 Copying Output Window Data |
| 3.2.3 Viewing Data in a Variety of Formats |
| 3.3 MathScript Help |
| 3.4 Syntax |
| 3.4.1 Key MathScript Functions |
| 3.5 Defining Functions and Creating Scripts |
| 3.5.1 User-Defined Functions |
| 3.5.2 Scripts |
| 3.6 Saving, Loading, and Exporting Data Files |
| 3.6.1 Saving and Loading Data Files |
| 3.6.2 Exporting to Microsoft Excel |
| 3.7 MathScript Nodes |
| 3.7.1 Accessing the MathScript Node |
| 3.7.2 Entering Scripts into the MathScript Node |
| 3.7.3 Input and Output Variables |
| 3.7.4 Saving Scripts from within the MathScript Node |
| 3.8 Applications of MathScript |
| 3.8.1 Instrument Your Algorithms |
| 3.8.2 Graphical Signal Processing, Analysis, and Mathematics |
| 3.8.3 Integrating Measurement Hardware |
| 3.9 Building Blocks: Pulse Width Modulation |
| 3.10 Relaxed Reading: Designing a Production Test System for a New Generation of Gaming |
| 3.11 Summary Exercises Problems Design Problems |
| 4 Editing and Debugging Virtual Instruments |
| 4.1 Editing Techniques |
| 4.1.1 Creating Controls and Indicators on the Block Diagram |
| 4.1.2 Selecting Objects |
| 4.1.3 Moving Objects |
| 4.1.4 Deleting and Duplicating Objects |
| 4.1.5 Resizing Objects |
| 4.1.6 Labeling Objects |
| 4.1.7 Changing Font, Style, and Size of Text |
| 4.1.8 Selecting and Deleting Wires |
| 4.1.9 Wire Stretching and Broken Wires |
| 4.1.10 Aligning, Distributing, and Resizing Objects |
| 4.1.11 Coloring Objects |
| 4.2 Debugging Techniques |
| 4.2.1 Finding Errors |
| 4.2.2 Highlight Execution |
| 4.2.3 Single Stepping Through a VI and Its Sub VIs |
| 4.2.4 Breakpoints and Probes |
| 4.3 A Few Shortcuts |
| 4.4 Building Blocks: Pulse Width Modulation |
| 4.5 Relaxed Reading: LabView Helps Fabrication Process of Next Generation Microprocessors |
| 4.6 Summary Exercises Problems Design Problems |
| 5 Sub VIs |
| 5.1 What is a SubVI? |
| 5.2 Review of the Basics |
| 5.3 Editing the Icon and Connector |
| 5.3.1 Icons |
| 5.3.2 Connectors |
| 5.3 |
