| LabVIEW The graphical programming language |
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| With LabVIEW you
control your system and present your results through interactive graphical
front panels. You have numerous options for data management - storing data
to disk or directly to a database, networking data between applications,
the Internet, or generating and printing technical reports. You can acquire data from thousands of devices, including GPIB, VXI, PXI, serial devices, PLCs, and plug-in data acquisition (DAQ) boards. You can also connect to other data sources via the Internet, interapplication communication such as ActiveX, DDE (dynamic data exchange), and SQL (structured query language) database links. And, for complete flexibility in the LabVIEW open development environment, you can call any external or existing code in the form of a DLL (dynamic linked library) under Windows or a shared library on any other platform. After you have acquired the data, you can convert your raw measurements into polished results by using the powerful data analysis and visualization capabilities of LabVIEW. LabVIEW simplifies and reduces the development time of a complete system with an intuitive programming methodology and the functionality you need, integrated into one development environment.
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| LabVIEW accelerates
development by at least a factor of 4 to 10 over traditional programming.
with the modularity and hierarchical structure of LabVIEW, you can rapidly
prototype, design and modify systems in a short amount of time.
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| As application
needs change, LabVIEW virtual instrumentation systems have the flexibility
to be modified easily without the need for new equipment. Using a LabVIEW
system, each user has access to a complete instrumentation laboratory at
less than the cost of a single commercial instrument. LabVIEW is also cross-platform
compatible, so that you can always port your systems to the best platform
for you. And, National Instruments ensures backward compatibility, so VIs
you develop today will be compatible with technologies tomorrow.
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| LabVIEW empowers
engineers, scientists and technicians to design and implement their own
systems. Because the LabVIEW programming paradigm is very similar to standard
flowchart notation, LabVIEW is extremely intuitive and easy to learn.
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| LabVIEW has extensive acquisition, analysis and presentation capabilities available within a single package, so you can seamlessly create a complete solution on the platform of your choice. In addition, LabVIEW features an optimized graphical compiler to maximize system performance. Thus, LabVIEW simplifies development and produces reusable code that executes at compiled execution speeds. Because of this compiler, LabVIEW can create true compiled stand-alone executables that run on a target machine without a LabVIEW development system. | |