Learning
LabVIEW
Let's adopt this as our goal:
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We want to build programs
in LabVIEW that take temperature data and store the data in a file.
Now, think about what we need to do in order to do that.
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First, we need to learn
about LabVIEW
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How to start the program,
etc.
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Next, we need to know
how to time things. That may not be obvious, but we will probably
need to know how to take data at user-specified time intervals.
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That is going to mean
that we need to learn about loops and how to time them.
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We will need to learn
about files.
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Opening, closing, writing
data to the file.
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To write data to a file
means that we need to learn about data formats.
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We will need to learn
about floating point variables, integers, strings and what makes them all
different.
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We will need to learn
about converting between different kinds of data formats.
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We will need to learn
about when we need to use different kinds of formats, and that rationale
for that.
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And, we will examine how
data format affects file size.
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We will need to learn
about communicating with instruments. That will include the data
formats used by instruments and the typical kinds of commands that can
be sent to the instruments. Behind all of this is a bus structure
that is commonly used in instruments, and we will need to learn about communicating
with instruments.
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Eventually, if we want
to view temperature remotely we will need an introduction to network communication
using LabVIEW.