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LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun (3rd Edition)

ISBN: 0131856723
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2006
Pages: 294

Authors: Jeffrey Travis, Jim Kring

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• LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun, Third Edition
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. What in the World Is LabVIEW?
• Overview
• Key Terms
• What Exactly Is LabVIEW, and What Can It Do for Me?
• Demonstration Examples
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 2. Virtual Instrumentation: Hooking Your Computer Up to the Real World
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Using LabVIEW in the Real World
• The Evolution of LabVIEW
• What Is Data Acquisition?
• What Is GPIB?
• Communication Using the Serial Port
• Real-World Applications: Why We Analyze
• A Little Bit About PXI and VXI
• Connectivity
• LabVIEW Add-on Toolkits
• LabVIEW Real-Time, FPGA, PDA, and Embedded
• Wrap It Up
• Chapter 3. The LabVIEW Environment
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Front Panels
• Block Diagrams
• LabVIEW Projects
• SubVIs, the Icon, and the Connector
• Activity 3-1: Getting Started
• Alignment Grid
• Pull-Down Menus
• Floating Palettes
• The Toolbar
• Pop-Up Menus
• Help
• Express VIs
• Displaying SubVIs as Expandable Nodes
• A Word About SubVIs
• Activity 3-2: Front Panel and Block Diagram Basics
• Wrap It Up
• Chapter 4. LabVIEW Foundations
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Creating VIs: It s Your Turn Now
• Activity 4-1: Editing Practice
• Basic Controls and Indicators and the Fun Stuff They Do
• Wiring Up
• Running Your VI
• Useful Tips
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 5. Yet More Foundations
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Loading and Saving VIs
• Debugging Techniques
• Activity 5-1: Debugging Challenge
• Creating SubVIs
• Documenting Your Work
• A Little About Printing
• Activity 5-2: Creating SubVIsPractice Makes Perfect
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 6. Controlling Program Execution with Structures
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Two Loops
• Shift Registers
• The Case Structure
• Dialogs
• The Sequence StructureFlat or Stacked
• Timing
• The Timed Structures
• The Formula Node
• The Expression Node
• The While Loop Case Structure Combination
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 7. LabVIEW s Composite Data: Arrays and Clusters
• Overview
• Key Terms
• What Are Arrays?
• Creating Array Controls and Indicators
• Using Auto-Indexing
• Two-Dimensional Arrays
• Activity 7-1: Building Arrays with Auto-Indexing
• Functions for Manipulating Arrays
• Activity 7-2: Array Acrobatics
• Polymorphism
• Activity 7-3: Polymorphism
• Compound Arithmetic
• All About Clusters
• Interchangeable Arrays and Clusters
• Error Clusters and Error-Handling Functions
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 8. LabVIEW s Exciting Visual Displays: Charts and Graphs
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Waveform Charts
• Activity 8-1: Temperature Monitor
• Graphs
• Activity 8-2: Graphing a Sine on a Waveform Graph
• XY Graphs
• Chart and Graph Components
• Activity 8-3: Using an XY Graph to Plot a Circle
• Activity 8-4: Temperature Analysis
• Intensity Charts and GraphsColor as a Third Dimension
• Time Stamps, Waveforms, and Dynamic Data
• Mixed Signal Graphs
• Exporting Images of Charts and Graphs
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 9. Exploring Strings and File IO
• Overview
• Key Terms
• More About Strings
• Using String Functions
• Activity 9-1: String Construction
• Parsing Functions
• Activity 9-2: More String Parsing
• File InputOutput
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 10. Signal Measurement and Generation: Data Acquisition
• Overview
• Key Terms
• DAQ and Other Data Acquisition Acronyms
• How to Connect Your Computer to the Real World
• Signals 101
• Selecting and Configuring DAQ Measurement Hardware
• Wrap It Up
• Solutions to Activities
• Chapter 11. Data Acquisition in LabVIEW
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Understanding Analog and Digital IO
• NI-DAQmx Tasks
• Advanced Data Acquisition
• Wrap It Up
• Chapter 12. Instrument Control in LabVIEW
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Instrumentation Acronyms
• Connecting Your Computer to Instruments
• SCPI, the Language of Instruments
• VISA: Your Passport to Instrument Communication
• Instrument Control in LabVIEW
• Wrap It Up
• Chapter 13. Advanced LabVIEW Structures and Functions
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Local, Global, and Shared Variables
• Property Nodes
• Invoke Nodes
• Event-Driven Programming: The Event Structure
• Type Definitions
• The State Machine and Queued Message Handler
• Messaging and Synchronization
• Structures for Disabling Code
• Halting VI and Application Execution
• Cool GUI Stuff: Look What I Can Do
• Wrap It Up
• Chapter 14. Advanced LabVIEW Data Concepts
• Overview
• Key Terms
• A Word About Polymorphic VIs
• Advanced File IO: Text Files, Binary Files, and Configuration Files
• Configuration (INI) Files
• Calling Code from Other Languages
• Fitting Square Pegs into Round Holes: Advanced Conversions and Typecasting
• You Can Be Anything: Variants
• Wrap It Up
• Additional Activities
• Chapter 15. Advanced LabVIEW Features
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Exploring Your Options: The LabVIEW Options Dialog
• Configuring Your VI
• The VI Server
• Radices and Units
• Automatically Creating a SubVI from a Section of the Block Diagram
• A Few More Utilities in LabVIEW
• Wrap It Up
• Chapter 16. Connectivity in LabVIEW
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Your VIs on the Web: The LabVIEW Web Server
• Emailing Data from LabVIEW
• Remote Panels
• Self-Describing Data: XML
• Sharing Data over the Network: Shared Variables
• Talking to Other Programs and Objects
• Talking to Other Computers: Network VIs
• Databases
• Report Generation
• Wrap It Up
• Chapter 17. The Art of LabVIEW Programming
• Overview
• Key Terms
• Why Worry About the Graphical Interface Appearance?
• Arranging, Decorating, Resizing, Grouping, and Locking
• Vive l art: Importing Pictures
• Custom Controls and Indicators
• Adding Online Help
• Pointers and Recommendations for a Wow Graphical Interface
• How Do You Do That in LabVIEW?
• Memory, Performance, and All That
• Programming with Style
• Wrap It Up
• Concluding Remarks
• Appendix A. CD Contents
• Appendix B. Add-on Toolkits for LabVIEW
• Application Deployment and Module Targeting
• Software Engineering and Optimization Tools
• Data Management and Visualization
• Real-Time and FPGA Deployment
• Embedded System Deployment
• Signal Processing and Analysis
• Automated Test
• Image Acquisition and Machine Vision
• Control Design and Simulation
• Industrial Control
• Appendix C. Open Source Tools for LabVIEW: OpenG
• Free Open Source Software
• OpenG.org: Home of the LabVIEW Open Source Community
• Appendix D. LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming
• LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming
• Built-in LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming Features
• Appendix E. Resources for LabVIEW
• LabVIEW Documentation and Online Help
• Appendix F. LabVIEW Certification Exams
• Certified LabVIEW Associate Developer (CLAD) Exam
• Certified LabVIEW Developer (CLD) Exam
• Certified LabVIEW Architect (CLA) Exam
• Glossary
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