User manual
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IntroductiontoNILabVIEW
WhatisLabVIEW?–Realvs VirtualInstruments
Real Instrument(Agilentdigitalscope)
“Pre‐defined”UserInterface
• Buttons(booleaninput)
• Knobs(numericinput)
• Display(graphicaloutput)
• …
• …
Behaviour & Features strictly relatedonhardwarearchitecture
• ADC(resolution/samplingrate)
• Microprocessor
• Memory
• Input/Output
• …
Amid‐rangeDigitalScopecan
(atleast):
• DisplayWaveform(tipicallyupto4)
• Performbasicmeasurement(time/amplitude/frequencydomain)
• Connecttoexternalequipment(GPIB/Ethernet/USB)
• Storedataonexternalmemory(usuallyinbinaryorASCII)
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