LabVIEW POWER Programming
By Gary W. Johnson (ed)

Introduction

Introduction
Graphical programming as embodied in LabVIEW has undergone explosive growth in popularity and diversity of application since its inception in 1987. Much of this growth is due to the nearly unchallenged productivity boost that LabVIEW provides, as demonstrated by programmers in all fields of science and engineering. Whereas conventional textual languages often leave us wallowing in syntactical quagmires, LabVIEW frees us to concentrate on the problem, moving rapidly to a solution with high-level tools that are actually fun to use. With each new LabVIEW release, and with the proliferation of high-performance personal computers with standardized interfaces, we move to ever higher levels of capability and ease of use.
LabVIEW is a product of National Instruments Corp. (Austin, TX) and has been available since 1987. Programs developed in LabVIEW are portable among several platforms: PCs running all versions of Microsoft Windows, Macintoshes, Sun SPARCStations, HP PA/RISC workstations, and Concurrent PowerMAX systems. A nearly unlimited range of instrumentation I/O interfaces (such as GPIB, VXI, plug-in data acquisition boards, and serial ports) is fully supported, as are several networking and interapplication communication protocols. A related product, BridgeVIEW, is based on the same graphical language?G?with extra features for industrial process control applications. Everything in this book applies to BridgeVIEW as well as LabVIEW.
Many of us now consider LabVIEW an indispensable tool?as important as a multimeter, microscope, or calculator. Much of my recent success as an instrumentation engineer is attributable to LabVIEW in combination with various I/O devices, particularly plug-in boards. This is...
Copyright The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1998 under license agreement with Books24x7
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