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LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun, Third Edition
By Jeffrey Travis, Jim Kring
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub Date: July 27, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-13-185672-3
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-13-185672-1
Pages: 1032

Table of Contents  | Index

		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 I/O
			Overview
			Key Terms
			More About Strings
			Using String Functions
			Activity 9-1: String Construction
			Parsing Functions
			Activity 9-2: More String Parsing
			File Input/Output
			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 I/O
			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 I/O: 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
			Symbols
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		Index