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 NI LabVIEW Live

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Aashish Mehta Wu Rong

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Everyday Engineering Challenges

Do more with less

Integrate code and systems
Get increasingly complex
products to market faster
Adapt to evolving
application requirements
Protect existing investments
Minimize power consumption

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Escalating Complexity Over Time

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Our Mission
We equip engineers and scientists with tools that
accelerate productivity, innovation, and discovery.

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Our Stability
Annual Revenue: $1.14 billion

Global Operations:
Approximately 7,100 employees;
operations in
more than 40 countries

Broad Customer Base: More

than 35,000 companies served
annually

Diversity: No industry >15%

of revenue

Culture: Ranked among the top

25 companies to work worldwide by
the Great Place to Work Institute

Strong Cash Position: Cash and

short-term investments of $327
million
at March 31, 2013

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What We Do
We provide graphical software with modular hardware to build
measurement and control systems.

Low-Cost Modular Measurement Productive Software Highly Integrated

and Control Hardware Development Tools Systems Platforms

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 What is NI LabVIEW?
System Design Software for any Measurement
or Control Application

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 National Instruments’ Strategy: Graphical System Design

Industries and Applications

Hardware and I/O Devices

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 Architecture of an Integrated Measurement System
LabVIEW is system design software that provides
engineers and scientists with the tools needed to
create and deploy measurement and control systems
through unprecedented hardware integration.

Sensor Measurement Device Software

Signal Analog-to-Digital Driver Application

Conditioning Converter Software Software

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 Because It Has Been Proven Over Nearly 30 Years…
Withstanding the test of time across operating systems, buses, technologies, and more

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 …LabVIEW Is the Standard for Making Measurements

Software Used for Data Acquisition and Instrument Control

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
NI LabVIEW
Microsoft Visual C/C++
Microsoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0
NI - LabWindows™/CVI
Microsoft C#
The MathWorks, Inc. - MATLAB®
NI Measurement Studio
Agilent VEE
NI TestStand
Agilent IO Libraries Suite
Python
GeoTest ATEasy
Other
Don't use

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 Unrivaled Hardware Integration in a Single Environment

• NI hardware • Third-party hardware

• 200+ data acquisition devices
• 450+ modular instruments
• Cameras
• Instrument Driver Network
o 10,000+ instrument drivers
o 350+ instrument vendors
o 100+ instrument types

• Motion control • Communicate over any bus

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 The Foundation of LabVIEW: Virtual Instrumentation
Automation through software led to a realization about fixed-functionality instrumentation…

Redundancy: Power Supplies

Each separate instrument requires its own
power supply to run measurement circuitry
that captures the real-world signal.

Redundancy: Memory
PCs can quickly capitalize on a performance
boost from a memory upgrade from readily
available RAM.

Redundancy: Displays
Instrument vendors provide a limited-
quality display per instrument, even though
monitor technology is far more advanced.

Redundancy: Storage
Each instrument duplicates onboard
storage even though PC hard drives are
plentiful and cost-effective.

Redundancy: Processors
Chip manufacturers rapidly enhance
processors according to Moore’s law, but
instruments have fixed processing power.

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 The Foundation of LabVIEW: Virtual Instrumentation
By leveraging COTS PC components, the software becomes the instrument

LabVIEW unlocks the power of instrument and data acquisition hardware

by capitalizing on the PC industry and abstracting redundant circuitry.

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 Therefore, LabVIEW Building Blocks Are Called
Virtual Instruments (*.VI)

LabVIEW Front Panel

The user interface of a VI

LabVIEW Block Diagram

The source code of a VI

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all three elements
 Creating a LabVIEW Front Panel

Controls Palette (Right-Click)

Access a hierarchical palette of all front
panel elements.

Quick Drop (Ctrl + Space)

Search by object name.

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Customising your Front Panels

All of the front panels above were contributed

for sharing and reuse by members of the
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 All Front Panel Elements Have Block
Diagram Terminals
Block diagram terminals provide access to front panel values

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 Examining Traditional Source Code
Humans use abstracted languages because machine code is too hard to comprehend

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 With LabVIEW, You Can Program the Way You Think

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 With LabVIEW, You Can Program the Way You Think

The graphical, dataflow-based G programming language

is ideal for programming parallel data acquisition
hardware.
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 What Is Data Flow?
• Each block diagram node executes only when it receives all inputs
• Each node produces output data after execution
• Data flows along a path defined by wires
• The movement of data determines execution order

Formula: Result = (A+B*C) / (D-E)

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 What Is Data Flow?
• Each block diagram node executes only when it receives all inputs
• Each node produces output data after execution
• Data flows along a path defined by wires
• The movement of data determines execution order

The [Multiply] and [Subtract] operations can execute at the same time since they
don’t have any data dependencies.
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 Dataflow Languages Naturally Express Parallelism
The LabVIEW compiler will automatically multithread code expressed in parallel

Task Parallelism

Data Parallelism

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 Creating a LabVIEW Block Diagram

Functions Palette (Right-Click)

Access a hierarchical palette of all
block diagram functions.

Quick Drop (Ctrl + Space)

Search by object name.

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 Execution Control Structures: Loops
For Loop
Count Terminal
The code contained within this For
Loop will execute N times.

While Loop
Loop Iteration Terminals
This provides the current loop
iteration count, which ranges from
0 to N-1.

Conditional Terminal
The code within this While Loop will
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run until a True value is evaluated.
 Getting Started with LabVIEW Example Finder

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 Getting Started with LabVIEW Example Finder

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 Event and Case Structures
Event Structure

Event Selector Label

This indicates which subdiagram is
visible and details the event that the
code within the diagram handles.

Case Structure
Case Selector Label
This indicates which subdiagram is
visible.

Selector Terminal
The value wired to this terminal
determines which of the subdiagrams,
or cases, will execute.

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 LabVIEW Functions Are as Complex as You Need

Express • Quick and Easy

• Configuration-Based
VIs • Limited

• Hides Unnecessary
Regular Details

VIs • Retains Power and

Flexibility

• Powerful, Flexible
Low-Level
• Difficult, Time-
VIs Consuming

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 Wire Color, Style and Thickness

Wire Type Scalar 1D Array 2D Array Color

Floating Point Orange

Integer Blue

Boolean Green

String Pink

Error Yellow

A “broken wire” represents a data type conflict that LabVIEW

cannot automatically resolve. Fix it, or your code won’t run!
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 Visualizing Data Flow Along Wires: Highlight Execution
User presses the “Start” button to fire the first event
User presses the “Stop” button to fire the second event

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 LabVIEW Real-Time Module
LabVIEW FPGA Module

Leveraging the LabVIEW Ecosystem LabVIEW Embedded Module for ARM

LabVIEW Touch Panel Module
LabVIEW Wireless Sensor Network Module
LabVIEW C Code Generator
NI Real-Time Hypervisor
LabVIEW Tools Network Vision Development Module for LabVIEW
Sound and Vibration Measurement Suite
1,000,000+ Add-Ons Downloaded Sound and Vibration Toolkit
26+ Certified Add-Ons LabVIEW Advanced Signal Processing Toolkit
LabVIEW Adaptive Filter Toolkit
100+ Available Add-Ons LabVIEW Digital Filter Design Toolkit
LabVIEW MathScript RT Module
Spectral Measurements Toolkit
Modulation Toolkit for LabVIEW
LabVIEW Robotics Module
LabVIEW Biomedical Toolkit
ECU Measurement and Calibration Toolkit
GPS Simulation Toolkit for LabVIEW
Measurement Suite for Fixed WiMAX
WLAN Measurement Suite
Automotive Diagnostic Command Set
LabVIEW GPU Analysis Toolkit
Multicore Analysis and Sparse Matrix Toolkit
LabVIEW PID and Fuzzy Logic Toolkit
LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation Module
LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit
User Community LabVIEW Simulation Interface Toolkit
LabVIEW SoftMotion Module
9,000+ Certified Users LabVIEW Datalogging and Supervisory Control Module
700+ Alliance Partners LabVIEW Report Generation Toolkit for Microsoft Office
LabVIEW Database Connectivity Toolkit
60+ Registered User Groups LabVIEW DataFinder Toolkit
LabVIEW SignalExpress
LabVIEW VI Analyzer Toolkit
LabVIEW Statechart Module
Modules and Toolkits LabVIEW Desktop Execution Trace Toolkit
40+ Toolkits and Modules Including: NI Requirements Gateway
NI Real-Time Execution Trace Toolkit
LabVIEW Unit Test Framework Toolkit
ni.com LabVIEW Application Builder for Windows
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• Quickly automate the acquisition of data to better

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• Easily build a graphical user interface to best communicate
the results of your work
• Acquire data from a wide range of measurement hardware,
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