Chapter 6: LabVIEW and Mathematics

Chapter 6: LabVIEW and Mathematics

Lothar Wenzel

LabVIEW Consultant

Overview

Advanced programming techniques in LabVIEW?s G language allow a systematic, thorough exploration of many of the current uses of this graphically oriented language. It?s even more fascinating, however, to look for new fields of application for LabVIEW. In the ideal case, the solution you come up with works as well in practice as it does in theory.

Network operations are a good example?they are supported by LabVIEW with regard to both the platform and the protocols they use. Because of this, it?s really not difficult to use G to program relatively complex network problems. The graphically oriented and data-driven concept leads to fast, easy solutions because of its similarities to network operations.

The next three chapters discuss ideas that should enlighten you further on this aspect of LabVIEW. First, we?ll look at the relationship between mathematics and LabVIEW. Next, we?ll consider whether or not G is a suitable simulation language or will be in the near future. Finally, we?ll turn our attention to new LabVIEW applications in signal processing, a field in which LabVIEW has been well represented since its introduction.

The National Instruments G Math Toolkit is a collection of mathematical and theoretical signal routines that go above and beyond what the Advanced Analysis Library can do. In fact, entirely new doors are opening up for LabVIEW using this toolkit with suitable G programs; this also applies to mathematics, simulation calculations, and signal theory.

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