How to use and program Labview

We are now planning to built a data acquisition system for lab testing via NI PXI. Does anybody ever used or using those products? I am interested with the programming for our own testing system. Does anyone have the software tutorial of Labview or any web address in which benefit to learn it?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

> [Has] anybody ever used [LabView]?"

I had a team of high school students come in last week to show off the work they had done for the FIRST robotics competition. They used LabView to program their system. I haven't worked directly with it for quite some time, but I think it's a very good system. It takes a little getting used to, but it is very powerful and there are a lot of resources for it.

"Does anyone have the software tutorial of Labview or any web address in which benefit to learn it?"

The National Instruments website has plenty of stuff. Start with http://www.ni.com/gettingstarted/labviewbasics/

Also, the online help for LabView is quite good. In fact, there's no need to take the "Core 1" class, because all of that information is on the web and in the help. I do recommend Core 2, and possibly Core 3 and / or the Performance class. Look for more information on training on the NI web site.

Hope that helps.

-James Ingraham
Sage Automation, Inc.

1. http://www.ni.com/pxi/ and the forum

2. http://lavag.org/

3. Google the keywords + "forum".

LabVIEW is not a bad choice for such an application. But your programmer will have to spend a bit of time to learn the data flow concept. It is not easy if he has conventional control flow programming background.

the best,
Vladimir E. Zyubin

if you just want a plain data acquisition system, there is not much programming involved. the game begins when you go for control or signal processing.

NI has extensive student resources: www.ni.com

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