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Controls have an arrow on the right side and have a thick border. Indicators
have an arrow on the left and a thin border.

The connector pane defines the inputs and outputs you can wire to the VI so you
can use it as a subVI.

The number of terminals LabVIEW displays on the connector pane depends on

the number of controls and indicators on the front panel.

The For Loop differs from the While Loop in that the For Loop executes a set
number of times. A While Loop stops executing the subdiagram only if the
value at the conditional terminal exists.

To add variables to Formula Node, right-click and choose Add Input or Add
Output. Name variables as they are used in formula.

The waveform chart is a special type of numeric indicator that displays one or
more plots of data typically acquired at a constant rate.

A Global Variable is used to access and pass data among several Vis

A shift register can be created by right-clicking the left or right loop border and
selecting Add Shift Register from the shortcut menu.

If the shift register data type is numeric, the initial value is 0.

Each array element is accessed by its index. The index is in the range 0 to N-1,
where N is the number of elements in the array.

The For Loop and While Loop can index and accumulate arrays at their
boundaries automatically. This capability is called auto-indexing.

Build Array concatenates multiple arrays or appends elements to an array

Instrument control is a PC-based approach that combines programmable

software and hardware connectivity for automating measurement acquisition
from third-party instrumentation

An instrument control system consists of instrumentation, connectivity

hardware, and a computer with programmable software.

Application software facilitates the interaction between the computer and user
for automating the process of acquiring, analyzing, and presenting measurement
data from instruments.
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An instrument driver is a set of software routines that control a programmable

instrument.

VISA is a standard I/O Application Programming Interface (API) for

instrumentation programming

The Instrument descriptor specifies the interface type (GPIB, VXI, ASRL), the
address of the device (logical address or primary address), and the VISA
Session type (INSTR or Event).

The VISA Read function reads data from the device specified by the VISA
resource name. Byte count indicates the number of bytes to be read into the
returned read buffer string.

To properly end a VISA program, all of the opened VISA sessions should be
closed. To do this, VISA Close is to be used.

Baud rate is a measure of how fast data moves between instruments that use
serial communication

GPIB is a digital, 8-bit parallel communications interface with data transfer

rates of up to 8 Mb/s.

Hardware requirements for establishing GPIB communication?

Ethernet, defined by IEEE Standard 802.3, offers network configurations that

provide theoretical data transfer rates of 10 Mb/s (10BaseT), 100 Mb/s
(100BaseTX), and 1 Gb/s (1000BaseT).

The TCP/IP functions are located on the Functions Communication TCP

palette for TCP communication in LabVIEW.

With connectivity via Ethernet, you can control your instrument from anywhere
on the network to which it is connected.

The TCP/IP Listen listens over the network for another computer trying to
connect over the port specified

The command to query an instrument in Matlab?

Draw the general block digram layout to establish instrument control?