About the Authors xxix
Preface xxxi
Acknowledgments xli
1 What in the World Is LabVIEW? 3
2 Virtual Instrumentation: Hooking Your Computer Up to the Real World 21
3 The LabVIEW Environment 41
4 LabVIEW Foundations 101
5 Yet More Foundations 147
6 Controlling Program Execution with Structures 185
7 LabVIEW’s Composite Data: Arrays and Clusters 245
8 LabVIEW’s Exciting Visual Displays: Charts and Graphs 301
9 Exploring Strings and File I/O 379
10 Signal Measurement and Generation: Data Acquisition 419
11 Data Acquisition in LabVIEW 465
12 Instrument Control in LabVIEW 523
13 Advanced LabVIEW Structures and Functions 553
14 Advanced LabVIEW Data Concepts 673
15 Advanced LabVIEW Features 721
16 Connectivity in LabVIEW 799
17 The Art of LabVIEW Programming 853
Appendix A CD Contents 891
Appendix B Add-on Toolkits for LabVIEW 893
Appendix C Open Source Tools for LabVIEW: OpenG 897
Appendix D LabVIEW Object-Oriented Programming 901
Appendix E Resources for LabVIEW 921
Appendix F LabVIEW Certification Exams 925
Glossary 931
Index 959
The goal of the authors is to preserve the integrity of the book's purpose. That is, help the reader get LabVIEW up, running quickly and easily, and start the reader down the road to becoming an expert programmer. This 3rd edition also includes material that will help a developer prepare for the Certified LabVIEW Developer Exam. LabVIEW 8 is the latest release. It replaces LabVIEW 7 and all its variants. National Instruments develops and evolves LabVIEW so that it is backward compatible. This book not only introduces the beginner to the new features of LabVIEW 8 it also includes the updates for 3 previous releases, 7.1, 7.0 and 6.1. This is significant because all 3 versions are currently in use. Should a user migrate, let's say, from 7.1 to 8.0, the user will not have to buy another book. In addition, in this case, knowing what features are in 8.0 will help the reader determine if he or she would benefit by moving to a new release.
Jeffrey Travis provides expert consulting and creates books, courses, and products for remote Internet controls and monitoring, virtual instrumentation, and Web applications through his company, Jeffrey Travis Studios. He has more than fifteen years of experience developing software, teaching, and consulting on LabVIEW and related technologies. He holds an M.S. in engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Jim Kring is president of James Kring, Inc., a leader in LabVIEW development, system integration consulting, and custom software design. He is founder of OpenG, a foundation promoting open-source LabVIEW tools, applications, frameworks, and documentation.
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