Audience: 

• New LabWindows/CVI users

• Users and technical managers evaluating LabWindows/CVI in purchasing decisions

After attending this course you will be able to: 

• Develop your applications within the LabWindows/CVI environment

• Create professional-looking user interfaces with strip charts, graphs, and buttons

• Acquire analog waveforms using a DAQ board

• Perform measurements, store the data in a file, and retrieve it later

• Use an instrument driver

• Collect temperature data using temperature sensors and log it to a file

• Save data in files that you can retrieve with a spreadsheet

• Control a GPIB instrument

• Develop stand-alone LabWindows/CVI applications

• Analyze your data using the analysis functions

• Develop applications that use the serial port

Prerequisites: 

• C Primer course or recent C programming experience

You will cover:

 Introduction

• Overview of the course

• History of LabWindows/CVI

Introduction to LabWindows/CVI

• Learn about the features of LabWindows/CVI

• Discover the advantages to writing code inside the LabWindows/CVI environment

• Create Function Panels, help for Function Panels, and Function Panel variables

• Use Interactive Execution to quickly run a Function Panel

• Develop techniques to debug your application

• Build and link your projects all within the integrated environment

• Graphical User Interfaces

• Quickly develop professional user interfaces with the User Interface Editor

• Develop "skeleton-code" based on the user interface you designed

• Learn how to use callback functions to process user interface data

• Develop efficient applications that use and process events

• Build applications that plot data on charts and graphs

• Develop customized controls

Data Acquisition

• Learn about the fundamentals of data acquisition such as sampling rate and multiplexing

• Develop applications that can acquire analog voltages

• Use analog output in your applications

• Learn how to perform timed, multiple-point analog input and output

• Use LabWindows/CVI in digital I/O applications

Instrument Drivers

• Learn the uses of an instrument driver

• Develop applications that can call functions from other modules

• Create specific function panels for your custom functions to take advantage of the

• capabilities of LabWindows/CVI

Release Executables

• Develop stand-alone applications that can be released without the development environment

• Learn how to run stand-alone applications and the implications of a

• stand-alone executable

• Distribute the executable for your application

Formatting and Scanning

• Learn the differences between LabWindows/CVI and ANSI C

• Learn how to convert data within the language

• Quickly develop applications that need to manipulate strings

GPIB

• Learn how GPIB can be used to control stand-alone instruments

• Gain a basic understanding of the GPIB communication protocol

• Create applications that communicate to instruments using GPIB

• Learn how to use GPIB service requests to create efficient instrument

• control applications

• Learn how to debug GPIB problems

Serial Communication

• Develop applications that use the serial port as a communication device

• Learn the issues of serial programming and how to overcome them

This course is available on the following dates in: 2008
Pittsburgh	Cleveland	Philadelphia
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Courses are regularly offered throughout the year. Customized courses and alternative training schedules are available either on-site or at our permanent facility. Course descriptions and current course schedules are available upon request.

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