I-STEM : LabVIEW Platform

LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a graphical programming environment which has become prevalent throughout research labs, academia, and industry. It is a powerful and versatile analysis and instrumentation software system for measurement and automation. It's graphical programming language called G programming is performed using a graphical block diagram that compiles into machine code and eliminates a lot of the syntactical details.

LabVIEW offers more flexibility than standard laboratory instruments because it is software-based. Using LabVIEW, the user can originate exactly the type of virtual instrument needed and programmers can easily view and modify data or control inputs. The popularity of the National Instruments LabVIEW graphical dataflow software for beginners and experienced programmers in so many different engineering applications and industries can be attributed to the software’s intuitive graphical programming language used for automating measurement and control systems.

LabVIEW programs are called virtual instruments (VIs), because their appearance and operation imitate physical instruments like oscilloscopes. LabVIEW is designed to facilitate data collection and analysis, as well as offers numerous display options. With data collection, analysis and display combined in a flexible programming environment, the desktop computer functions as a dedicated measurement device. LabVIEW contains a comprehensive set of VIs and functions for acquiring, analyzing, displaying, and storing data, as well as tools to help you troubleshoot your code.

All test, measurement and control applications can be divided into three main components and the key to virtual instrumentation is the ability to acquire, analyze and present data. LabVIEW can acquire data using the devices like GPIB, Serial, Ethernet, VXI, PXI Instruments, Data Acquisition (DAQ), PCI extensions for Instrumentation (PXI), Image Acquisition (IMAQ), Motion Control, Real-Time (RT) PXI, PLC (through OPC Server), PDA, and Modular Instruments.

To help you analyse your data LabVIEW includes analysis functions for Differential Equations, Optimization, Curve Fitting, Calculus, Linear Algebra, Statistics and so on. Express VIs are specifically designed for measurement analysis, including filtering and spectral analysis. Signal Processing VIs for Filtering, Windowing, Transforms, Peak Detection, Harmonic Analysis, and Spectrum Analysis are provided. LabVIEW includes the following tools to help in presenting data on the computer; Graphs, Charts, Tables, Gauges, Meters, Tanks, 3D Controls, Picture Control, 3D Graphs and Report Generation. Over the Internet, Web Publishing Tools, Data socket (Windows Only), TCP/IP, VI Server, Remote Panels and Email are available to present data.

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