Advanced LabVIEW Labs

Advanced LabVIEW Labs provides a structured introduction to LabVIEW-based laboratory skills. The book can be used as a stand-alone tutorial or as a college-level instructional lab text. The reader learns the LabVIEW programming language while writing meaningful programs that explore useful data analysis techniques (numerical integration and differentiation, least-squares curve-fitting, Fast Fourier Transform) and the mechanics of computer-based experimentation using National Instruments DAQ and GPIB boards. During the course of the book, the reader constructs and investigates the proper usage of several computer-based instruments including a digitizing oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer and PID temperature control system as well as learns to control an instrument through the General Purpose Interface Bus.

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Demonstrates the LabVIEW graphical programming language including its four control structures, three graphing modes, and File I/O. Also explores the least-squares curve fitting and Fast Fourier Transform data analysis techniques, analog-to-digital and digital-to- analog functions, and GPIB communication. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.