LabVIEW (Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench) is a system-design platform and development environment for a visual programming language from National Instruments. It is used for data ...

To embark on a journey of learning Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), it is essential to first build a solid conceptual foundation. Viewing SCADA not as a single, static technology but ...

Part 1: The "Why"—Understanding the Philosophy of the Actor Model Before launching LabVIEW and writing a single line of code, we must first answer a fundamental question: Why invest the effort to ...

The Lock-in amplifier tutorial [1] will help students understand basic and some advanced concepts related to the principle of operation and use of a lock-in amplifier (LIA). It is intended for use by ...

In previous article of Getting Started with LabVIEW, we have seen about LabVIEW and how it can be graphically programmed and executed in computer (software level). Now in this article we learn about ...

Light is everywhere around us in the form of sunlight, artificial lighting and signaling. Most electrical equipment use either visible or infrared radiation for signaling, displays, sensing, data read ...

National Instruments has been working on a device called NI myRIO, an hardware & software platform that aims at giving engineering students the ability to design real systems quickly for automation, ...

NI LabVIEW software can communicate with any programmable logic controller (PLC) in a variety of ways. OLE for Process Control (OPC) defines the standard for communicating real-time plant data between ...

Since the release of NI LabVIEW 8.5 software, the new fixed-point numeric data type has opened up an entirely new world of possibilities for signal processing in LabVIEW FPGA. The most recent example ...

NEWS RELEASE – Nov. 16, 2004 – Engineers and scientists now can quickly and easily explore the latest version of the National Instruments LabVIEW 7.1 graphical development environment without ...