Express VIs
Express VIs represent a new level of productivity in LabVIEW. LabVIEW 7 Express introduced several new Express VIs for acquisition, analysis, presentation, and data logging. Most notably, the NI-DAQmx Express VI walks you through configuring your measurements (from temperature to pressure to simple voltage) and generates the corresponding LabVIEW code. You can dramatically reduce your development time and, when you also use analysis Express VIs, you can easily customize your measurement applications.
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Smart Sensors
Create smart sensing measurements with analog sensors through the adoption of Transducer Electronic Data Sheet (TEDS) sensors. By using Sensors Plug&Play products, your measurement systems are automatically configured, leading to faster setup and more accurate tests. Based on the IEEE 1451.4 standard, leading sensor manufacturers and National Instruments make plug and play available for traditional analog and smart TEDS sensors.
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Infrared Temperature Measurements
Using infrared technology, you can detect abnormal thermal signatures from processes or devices and analyze lasers and images through smoke, haze, or semiconductor materials-. Learn the basics of infrared technology and how to apply it in a variety of machine vision and industrial applications.
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USB Measurement Systems
The Universal Serial Bus (USB) is designed primarily to connect peripheral devices, such as keyboards and mice, with PCs. However, USB has proven useful for many other applications, including measurement and automation. Many temperature measurement systems, such as the
NI USB-4350, are now plug-and-play systems. The USB host automatically detects when a new device has been added, queries the device for its identification, and configures the drivers appropriately. This ease of setup is dramatically reducing the cost of temperature measurements.
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Wireless Data Acquisition
You can use wireless technology in different scenarios, from monitoring and control in discrete and process control manufacturing industries to supervisory control in the oil and gas and electric utility industries. As wireless technology makes inroads in the industrial space with multiple standards, system integrators face the challenge of selecting the right technology for their applications. See which wireless standards are suited for your applications, I/O and sensor networks, controller networks, and SCADA networks. Learn how to interface these wireless standards with your existing systems to build your own wireless industrial I/O systems.
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Handheld Data Acquisition
Make your data acquisition system smaller and more portable with NI LabVIEW and NI DAQCards. Use the LabVIEW PDA Module to download you DAQ application to a Pocket PC device and control a PCMCIA DAQCard. You can also use Palm and Pocket PC devices to monitor and control data acquisition systems via wireless Ethernet, serial, and Bluetooth connectivity.
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FPGA: Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
Using the LabVIEW FPGA Module, you can configure the FPGA on NI reconfigurable I/O hardware simply by creating a LabVIEW block diagram. Because your block diagram executes in hardware, you have direct, immediate control over all of the I/O signals on the reconfigurable I/O hardware. You can achieve high-performance, user-configurable timing and synchronization with 25 ns resolution and onboard decision making with loop rates up to 40 MHz. With LabVIEW FPGA technology, NI delivers user-defined hardware for a wide range of applications, such as custom discrete and analog control, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, rapid control prototyping, digital protocol communication, and other applications that require precise timing and control.
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