User manual

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IntroductiontoNILabVIEW
 WhatisLabVIEW?
LabVIEW aliasLABoratory VirtualInstrumentsEngineering Workbench
isaprogrammingenvironmentinwhichyoucreateprogramsusingagraphicalnotation
(connectingfunctionalnodesviawiresthroughwhichdataflows)
Itismuchmorethanaprogramminglanguage
Programs that take weeks or months to write using conventional programming languages
can be completed in hours using LabVIEW because it is specifically designed to take
measurements, analyze data,andpresent results to the user.
LabVIEWcancreateprogramsthatrunon:
• PC Windows/MacOSX/Linux(portability across platforms)
• PDAs MicrosoftpocketPC/MicrosoftWindowsCE/PalmOS
• RealTimePlatformNIcRIO
• EmbeddedsystemsFPGAs/DSPs/32‐bitMicroprocessor(Blackfin fromAnalogDevices)
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